How Journalists Describe Their Stories: Hypotheses and Assumptions in Newsmaking

Interviews newspaper reporters to show that journalists, like scientists, usually have hypotheses in mind in working a story. Finds, however, that unlike those of scientists, journalists' hypotheses were both explicit and implicit. (MG)

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journalism & mass communication quarterly 1990-06, Vol.67 (2), p.295-301
Hauptverfasser:	Stocking, S. Holly, LaMarca, Nancy
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Communication Research Interviews Journalism Research Journalistic Objectivity Journalistic Style Journalists News Reporting News Writing Writing for Publication
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Zusammenfassung:	Interviews newspaper reporters to show that journalists, like scientists, usually have hypotheses in mind in working a story. Finds, however, that unlike those of scientists, journalists' hypotheses were both explicit and implicit. (MG)
ISSN:	0196-3031 1077-6990 2161-430X
DOI:	10.1177/107769909006700205