Into the Newsroom: Exploring the Digital Production of Regional Television News [Hardcover]

Into the Newsroom provides a rigorous investigation into the everyday rituals that are performed in the television newsroom, and offers a unique suggestion that news is both a highly haphazard and yet technologically complicated process of deliberate construction involving the interweaving of reflexive professional journalists as well as developing, unpredictable technologies. Arguing specifically for a recognition and an exploration of technological agency, this book takes the reader on an exciting journey into the digital newsroom, using exclusive observation and interviews from those journalists working on the BBC's recent pilot project of local television news as part of its empirical evidence.

This is an essential introduction for both those seeking to understand news processes at the level of every day routines and practices, and for those students and scholars who are eager to adopt new and challenging ways to theorise news as practice.

Emma Hemmingway is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism at Nottingham Trent University. She previously worked for the BBC over a period of 12 years within a variety of roles, which included TV reporter, producer and also news editor.

Challenging orthodox readings of television news production,and ivestigating the processes of regional BBC news production, by adapting Actor Network Theory, Into the Newsroom provides a rigorous investigation of everyday rituals that are performed in the television newsroom.

Introduction: This will outline the main aims of the book which is to identify, explore and develop an understanding of regional and local news production, by adopting an alternative theoretical focus to the reading of news. The purpose of a new theoretical focus is to examine the detailed construction of news facts, to illustral#