ABSTRACT

Conceptually, the business of news is often separated from the practice of news production. In this essay, I borrow from practice theory to show that this separation is misleading. According to a practice approach, the influence of economics is not exogenous to journalism. Rather, economics serves as a series of considerations that are baked into news practices. As journalists take up these practices, they naturally reproduce these considerations, which is to say, they reproduce the structural conditions of journalism. Borrowing from the secondary literature, I show how and why economic considerations have been integral to news practices since the beginning of modern news. Then, I demonstrate the point in a different way in a discussion of the recent rise of nonprofit news. As the example of nonprofit news shows, any argument that journalism needs a new business model is also, if only implicitly, an argument that the way news is produced should change as well. Practice theory helps us to make this argument explicit, and to tease out its implications for new ventures in journalism.

摘要

从概念上讲，新闻业务通常与新闻生产实践分开。在本文中，我借鉴实践理论来证明这种分离是误导性的。根据一种实践方法，经济学的影响并非新闻业所固有。相反，经济学是新闻实践中的一系列考虑因素。当记者采取这些做法时，他们自然会重现这些考虑因素，也就是说，他们重现了新闻业的结构性条件。从中学文献中借来的东西，我展示了自现代新闻开始以来，经济考虑如何成为新闻实践不可或缺的组成部分。然后，在关于非营利性新闻最近兴起的讨论中，我以不同的方式论证了这一点。如非营利性新闻示例所示，任何关于新闻业需要一种新商业模式的论点，即使只是暗含的，也都应改变新闻产生方式的论点。实践理论有助于我们使这一论点明确，并阐明其对新闻业新事业的影响。