ABSTRACT

The advent and popularity of digital and social media have forever transformed the news media industry, specifically impacting the overall production and distribution of hard-copy newspapers. Much of the scholarship on the transformation of the news media industry tends to focus on the phenomenon from the perspective of the journalist and how the process of journalism itself is changing. Often, however, this work overlooks how the process and labourers of newswork are more wholly affected. Thus, this paper argues for a reorientation of the categories of workers involved in the news media industry to account for those involved in media operations – those that play an active role in maintaining the infrastructure that physically creates and disseminates newspapers on a text by text basis. In order to achieve this goal, the paper seeks to uncover the newswork that occurs in the concealed world of media operations and then illustrates how changes to the industry are impacting this area of focus. We conclude by offering several potential avenues of future research that would benefit from utilising a media operations perspective. In doing so, the paper furthers a more robust comprehension of the labour needed to perform newswork as the industry continues to undergo digital transformation.

摘要

数字和社交媒体的出现和普及已永远改变了新闻媒体行业，特别是影响了硬拷贝报纸的整体生产和发行。有关新闻媒体产业转型的许多奖学金倾向于从记者的角度以及新闻业本身的变化方式着眼于这一现象。但是，这项工作常常忽略了新闻工作的过程和劳动者如何受到更全面的影响。因此，本文主张重新定位新闻媒体行业中涉及的工人类别，以解决与媒体运营有关的人员-那些在维护基础设施上发挥积极作用的人，这些基础设施以文本为基础在物理上创建和传播报纸。为了实现这个目标，该论文旨在揭示在隐藏的媒体运营世界中发生的新闻工作，然后说明该行业的变化如何影响这一重点领域。最后，我们提供了一些未来研究的潜在途径，这些途径将从利用媒体运营的角度受益。这样，随着行业继续进行数字化转型，本文进一步增强了对执行新闻工作所需的劳动的理解。