Università della Svizzera italiana

Journalists arguing newsmaking decisions on the basis of anticipated audience uptake : a study of argumentation in the newsroom

Luciani, Margherita ; Rocci, Andrea (Dir.) ; Perrin, Daniel (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018COM006.

This thesis sets out to explore journalists’ anticipatory reasoning on audience uptake, i.e. on the ways in which the audience will react to news. In order to reach this goal, I conduct an argumentative analysis of various types of newsroom activities. The analysis sheds light on journalists’ reasoning processes concerning audience uptake that lead them to broadcast/publish one certain...