TY - JOUR
T1 - News and the word-image problematic
T2 - A (key)word on international news pictures' production
AU - Ilan, Jonathan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - This article is about the unique word-image relations as these appear in international news production. This is achieved by analysing the labour of a particular team - the keyword team - in the news picture production routine at the powerful Thomson Reuters international news agency. By analysing the daily work of keyworders at Thomson Reuters, I explore how the word-image problem is demonstrated, and settled, in international news production. Similar to the picture categorising mechanisms in the stock business, I argue that word and image relations in news media can also be productive, serving as a cultural practice that helps extending the shelf-life of archived pictures, thus increasing news picture sales worldwide.
AB - This article is about the unique word-image relations as these appear in international news production. This is achieved by analysing the labour of a particular team - the keyword team - in the news picture production routine at the powerful Thomson Reuters international news agency. By analysing the daily work of keyworders at Thomson Reuters, I explore how the word-image problem is demonstrated, and settled, in international news production. Similar to the picture categorising mechanisms in the stock business, I argue that word and image relations in news media can also be productive, serving as a cultural practice that helps extending the shelf-life of archived pictures, thus increasing news picture sales worldwide.
KW - Ekphrasis
KW - Thomson Reuters
KW - international news production
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85027563495&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1464884916643680
DO - 10.1177/1464884916643680
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AN - SCOPUS:85027563495
SN - 1464-8849
VL - 18
SP - 977
EP - 993
JO - Journalism
JF - Journalism
IS - 8
ER -