Journalism Hits a Wall: Rhetorical construction of newspapers' editorial and advertising relationship. (19th May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Artemas, Katie; Vos, Tim P.; Duffy, Margaret
• Is Part Of: Journalism studies. Volume 19:Number 7(2018)
• Page Start: 1004
• Page End: 1020
• Publication Date: 2018-05-19
• Subjects: advertising -- institutional norms -- metaphors -- news -- news organizations -- rhetoric -- wall of separation; Journalism -- Periodicals; 070.4
• DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2016.1249006
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-670X

Abstract

Abstract : This study analyzes how business and editorial staff members at US newspapers rhetorically construct or deconstruct the metaphoric norm of a wall or line of separation between news and advertising functions. The study is based on 18 in-depth interviews with news and advertising professionals at middle-market US newspapers and the subsequent analysis of their rhetoric about the relationship between the news and advertising sides of their organizations. The study seeks to understand the rhetorical construction of an institutional norm and our observations are focused on the organization level. This study aids understanding of two related phenomena: how institutional norms are rhetorically constructed and how norms are rhetorically renegotiated or deconstructed.