Abstract
What is at stake in television news production in the digital age? This study provides a detailed study on the transformation of television news production in a changing media environment. Television networks struggle to compete against the flashing speed of the Internet news in delivering‘ fast news’. Networks’news bureaus have been redefined to reflect changes of production modes and budgets. The traditional oneway flow in delivering television news has become more interactive. Now the news audience is everywhere equipped with digital camcoders, cell phones, YouTube, cable news, internet news, video blogs, and Facebook. Facing new technologies and competitions, news corporations have rewritten not only the definition of the news audience but also their public-interest obligations in the digital era. Rather than simply describing the changes of news production in terms of technology and production culture, this paper examines the fundamental transformation of television news production: ‘the reimagined audience’and ‘changes of the network-news paradigm towards the idea of public-interest’. By doing a case study on YTN News-24 hour news channel in Korea, we attempt to answer implications embedded in the changes of news practices.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Increased Importance of the Audience Participation in Television News Production and its Influences on Journalists’ Daily Practices in the Age of Digital Technologies. |
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| Original language | Korean |
| Pages (from-to) | 39 |
| Number of pages | 76 |
| Journal | Studies of Broadcasting Culture |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |