JOUR 601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 68: Collective Memory, Soft Media, Patent Lens
16 Aug 2020
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General rules of reporting and practices help reporters and journalists get information and tell stories about events that come up unexpectedly. The role of typification categorizes reporters and they use this to define the kind of news events represents what and what kinds of resources are needed to cover the event. It also determines whether a story or event is hard or soft news. The use of templates in stories or genres in narratives transform events into stories. Work in this way has shown how reporters categorize certain events as class members of events as news. Reporters sometimes rely on collective memory of certain pasts to create a structure of their reporting on major, unexpected events. This is a practice that has important implications for the way reporters inform their readers, viewers, and public. When using the past as a way to interpret more recent occurrences or events, journalists use historical analogies that compare the past to present.
