Abstract
Journalism constitutes a series of interrelated practices for the social construction of time. It arrests the ordinary and the unusual in various forms of texts that create feelings of simultaneity, help to define the contemporary, outline possible futures, and shape our understanding and memories of the past. News institutions are thus constituted by certain rhythms, or news cycles, that structure working practices in relation to the publication of different types of journalistic products. These rhythms and products, in turn, are both structured by and help structure the lives of news consumers as well as their conceptions of the temporal processes that undergird the social and cultural framework of their communities. The journalistic texts that are most closely related to the present, that is, news, are often considered to be the core of journalism and are defined through such terms as breaking, scoops, up-to-date, live, updated less than a minute ago, and so on. Related to this core are thus journalistic texts, genres and publications at a greater temporal distance from the present-features, portraits, documentaries, magazines, etc.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies |
| Editors | Bob Franklin, Scott A. Eldridge II |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publication date | 1 Jan 2016 |
| Pages | 55-63 |
| Chapter | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781138887961 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317499077 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |