ABSTRACT

While ample scholarly attention has focused on how, through commemorative journalism during anniversaries, deaths or retirement, the journalistic community mobilize past accomplishments to bolster their cultural authority, very limited attention has been paid to how the journalistic community can mobilize negative memories in dealing with problematic situations that are similar to past journalistic scandals or shortcomings. Examining how financial journalists made sense of accusations that they missed the 2008 Global Financial Crisis story, this study analyzes how the journalistic community makes use of past shortcomings to negotiate its understanding of a new case from its breaking moment to its anniversary a decade later. The study finds that reporters relied on previous moments’ incidents to explain and contextualize the Global Financial Crisis coverage as another missed story and use it as an opportunity to restate how they should refine their practice going forward.

摘要

虽然大量的学术注意力都集中在新闻界如何通过周年纪念、死亡或退休期间的纪念新闻，动员过去的成就来加强他们的文化权威，但对新闻界如何在处理有问题的问题时动员负面记忆的关注却非常有限类似于过去的新闻丑闻或缺点的情况。研究金融记者如何理解他们错过 2008 年全球金融危机故事的指责，本研究分析了新闻界如何利用过去的缺点来协商其对新案例的理解，从破灭时刻到十年后的周年纪念日。