From BBC newsroom to BBC newscentre : oon changing technology and journalist practices

Convergence

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 22-43

  Cottle, Simon ^a   Ashton, Mark ^b  

^a BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0038756247     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135485659900500304     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Semi-structured interviews were conducted by the author in October 1997 at the BBC News Centre, Bristol with 12 senior managers and newsroom journalists. A range of in-house BBC documents and publications were also consulted for senior BBC management statements and policy positions on the changing context of BBC news provision and the deployment of news technologies. Newsroom journalists were promised anonymity, and are referred to throughout this article by job title only. The article is also informed by Mark Ashton's professional knowledge of changing newsroom technologies across recent years.
2. Jay Blumler and Michael Gurevitch, 'Media Change and Social Change: Linkages and Junctures' in Mass Media and Society, eds. James Curran and Michael Gurevitch, second Edition (London: Arnold, 1996), p. 132.
3. Donald Armour, 'Platitudes From Outer Space?' British Journalism Review, 6, no. 1 (1995), pp. 28-34.
4. John Tusa, 'Pollution of the Global Village' British Journalism Review, 5, no. 4 (1994), pp. 39-47.
5. Martin Bell, 'TV News: How Far Should We Go' British Journalism Review, 8, no. 1 (1997), pp. 7-16.
6. Nik Gowing, 'Moving Images,' UK Press Gazette, November (1995), p. 34;
7. Nik Gowing, 'Supermarket - For the Media in War,' British Journalism Review, 8, no. 4 (1997), pp. 28-41.
8. Jim Wilson, 'Survival!,' UK Press Gazette , 27 November 1996, p. 20;
9. Douglas Haywood, 'Quiet Revolution,' UK Press Gazette, 27 November 1996, pp. 22-23.
10. David Bradwell, 'Kit for Journalists on the Move,' Press Gazette, 17 May 1996, p. 17.
11. Nigel Pickover, 'Electronic Fence Threatens Calls Reporting,' UK Press Gazette, 13 September 1996.
12. Nicola Methven, 'BBC to Use Lightweight Cameras and Increase Numbers of Video Journalists,' Press Gazette, 5 July 1996, p. 14;
13. Nicola Methven, 'Hard Talks Ahead on BBC Reporters' Light Cameras,' Press Gazette, 11 October 1996, p. 1;
14. Martin McNamara, 'The Future With Videojournalism,' Press Gazette, 5 July 1996, pp. 14-15.
15. Nicola Methven, 'BBC Chooses AP Computer System to Link News Staff Across 48 Countries,' Press Gazette, 30 August 1996, p. 30.
16. Brent MacGregor, Live Direct and Biased? Making Television News in the Satellite Age (London: Edward Arnold, 1997), p. 174.
17. For reviews see Michael Schudson, 'The Sociology of News Production Revisited,' in Curran and Gurevitch; Simon Cottle, 'Behind the Headlines: The Sociology of News,' in New Introductory Readings in Sociology, ed. Mike O'Donnell (Walton-On-Thames: Thomas Nelson, 1993), pp. 478-92;
18. Simon Cottle, 'Participant Observation: Researching News Production,' in Mass Communication Research Methods, eds. Anders Hansen, Simon Cottle, Ralph Negrine, and Chris Newbold (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 35-65;
19. Dan Berkowitz (ed. ), The Social Meaning of News (London: Sage Publications, 1998).
20. MacGregor, p. 2.
21. Brian McNair, The Sociology of Journalism (London: Arnold, 1998), p. 125.
22. McNair, p. 162.
23. Hanno Hardt, 'Newsworkers, Technology and Journalism History,' Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 7 (1990), pp. 346-65.
24. Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974).
25. Hardt, p. 355.
26. Simon Cottle, TV News, Urban Conflict and the Inner City (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1993).
27. Also 'The Production of News Formats: Determinants of Mediated Contestation,' Media, Culture and Society, 17, no. 2 (1995), pp. 275-91.
28. Brian Winston, 'The CBS Evening News, 7 April 1949: Creating An Ineffable Television Form,' in Getting the Message: News, Truth and Power, ed. John Eldridge (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 179-209.
29. Brian Winston has written one of the most comprehensive historical accounts of media technology and society yet written, and theorises this relationship with respect to social processes of innovation, diffusion and suppression. See Brian Winston, Media Technology and Society (London: Routledge, 1998).
30. MacGregor.
31. McNair.
32. Hardt.
33. Michael Bromley, 'How Multiskilling Will Change the Journalist's Craft,' Press Gazette, 22 March 1996, p. 16
34. Michael Bromley, 'The End of Journalism? Changes in Workplace Practices in the Press and Broadcasting in the 1990s,' A Journalism Reader, eds. Michael Bromley and Tom O' Malley (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 330-50.
35. Richard Goffee and Roger Scase, Corporate Realities: The Dynamics of Large and Small Organisations (London: Routledge, 1995);
36. Frank Webster, Theories of the Information Society (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 145-53.
37. Bromley, 1996, p. 16.
38. MacGregor, p. 110.
39. Bromley, 1997.
40. Hardt, p. 356.
41. Cottle, TV News, Urban Conflict and the Inner City; Bob Franklin and David Murphy (eds. ) Making the Local News (London: Routledge, 1998).
42. BBC, Extending Choice in the Digital Age (London: BBC, Broadcasting House, 1996), p. 1.
43. BBC, p. 2.
44. Rodney Baker-Bates, 'Interview,' Ariel, 26 February 1997, p. 3.
45. BBC, Going Digital, the Challenge for BBC Regional Journalism (BBC Regional Broadcasting, 1996).
46. Andrew Wernick, Promotional Culture (London: Sage, 1991);
47. David Miller, 'Public Relations and Journalism' in The Media: An Introduction, eds. Asa Briggs and Paul Cobley (Harlow: Longman. 1998), pp. 65-80.
48. Simon Cottle, Television and Ethnic Minorities: Producers' Perspectives. A Study of BBC, Independent and Cable TV Producers (Aldershot: Avebury, 1997);
49. Simon Cottle, 'Making Ethnic Minority Programmes Inside the BBC: Professional Pragmatics and Cultural Containment,' Media, Culture and Society, 20, no. 2 (1998), pp. 295-318.
50. For diagrams see Philip Schlesinger, Putting 'Reality' Together (London: Methuen, 1987), p. 55
51. and Cottle, TV News, p. 46.
52. Simon Cottle, 'Mediating the Environment: Modalities of TV News' in The Mass Media and Environmental Issues, ed. Anders Hansen (Leicester: Leicester University Press , 1993);
53. Cottle, The Production of News Formats.
54. Simon Cottle, '"Race" and Regional Television News: Multiculturalism and the Production of Popular TV,' New Community, 19, no. 4 (1993), pp. 581-92;
55. Cottle, Television and Ethnic Minorities;
56. Cottle, Making Ethnic Minority Programmes.
57. BBC, Going Digital, p. 5.