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Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism | 2017

The news is in the frame: A journalist-centered approach to the frame-building process of the Belgian Syria fighters

J.L.J. Boesman; Anna Berbers; Leen d’Haenens; Baldwin Van Gorp

This article seeks to understand the genesis of frame-building based on the early coverage of the Belgian Syria fighters in the four leading newspapers in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. For a period of 6 weeks, a frame analysis of news stories was linked to reconstruction interviews with reporters and supplemented by newsroom observations and in-depth interviews with superiors. The findings show that the framing of ‘new’ events on the public agenda stems from familiar frames about related events. More than being only a selection criterion, news values are equally added to the news story in retrospect, in line with the applied frame, which implies that the newsworthiness of the story may be increased by the way it is told. When journalists report an exclusive story, they remained closer to the frame as it is presented to them by their main sources.


Journalism Practice | 2017

An Insidious Poison or a Door to the Story?: A newsroom-centered approach to framing

J.L.J. Boesman; Baldwin Van Gorp

The aim of this paper is to grasp the influence of the newsroom on frame-building processes. First, journalists’ own understanding of “frames” and “framing” is discussed. Second, from an academic interpretation of these concepts, journalists’ framing practices are studied. To this end an ethnographic study was conducted at two newsrooms, one in Belgium and one in the Netherlands. The findings reveal that while the noun “frame” is sporadically used as a tool, the verb “framing” is considered as something from which a journalist should refrain. This is explained by the associations journalists make with strategic framing from sources as well as by the newspapers’ explicit attempt to no longer view the world from a single ideological frame. It is argued that the studied newsrooms have replaced ideology by, respectively, a counterframing strategy that strives to disprove existing frames (deframing) and a narrative approach that, one the one hand, sharpens existing frames but, on the other hand, offer more opportunities to create alternative frames (reframing) for events.


Ethnicities | 2016

The news framing of the ‘Syria fighters’ in Flanders and the Netherlands: Victims or terrorists?:

Anna Berbers; Willem Joris; J.L.J. Boesman; Leen d’Haenens; Joyce Koeman; Baldwin Van Gorp

In this article we present a cross-national comparison of framing of the issue of the ‘Syria fighters’ in Flanders and the Netherlands. We examine this topic using inductive and deductive framing analysis and interpret the results in terms of the advocates expressing the frames and the newspapers they were published in. We argue that variation in frame use can be explained by considering the background and social identification of the frame advocates. Furthermore, the subject of the ‘Syria fighters’ is depicted as mostly relating to (Islamic) religious motives and the overall societal construction is relatively one-sided and problematized in a negative sense. This article serves as a preliminary step to a multi-level analysis of societal discourse on integration-related issues in online and offline networks, with an emphasis on Moroccan minorities in Flanders and the Netherlands.


Communication Methods and Measures | 2016

Between Silence and Salience: A Multimethod Model to Study Frame Building From a Journalistic Perspective

J.L.J. Boesman; B. Van Gorp; Leen d'Haenens; Vu

ABSTRACT Research into frame building, which aims to investigate the development of news framing in the journalistic realm, is on the rise. While most frame-building studies focus on the relative contribution of journalists or sources to news frames, this article presents and evaluates an integrated methodological model. The model is based on constructionist premises with the purpose of examining how frames are created as part of the interaction among reporters, editors, and sources. Based on a review of the methodologies used in earlier frame-building studies, we propose an ethnographic four-phase model in which multiple methods are interwoven: newsroom observations, reconstruction interviews, and frame analyses of news products (which illustrate what is made salient) as well as production documents (which also reveal what is silenced). The model is illustrated with two multisited studies in newspaper newsrooms: an interview-based study of the news reports of preselected journalists and an observation-based study for which the news reports to be analyzed were selected based on their salience in newsroom meetings. Through this multimethod model, this paper offers some guidelines for the study of frame building from a journalistic perspective.


Journalism Practice | 2018

Nothing But the Facts?: Exploring the discursive space for storytelling and truth-seeking in journalism

J.L.J. Boesman; Irene Costera Meijer

This paper seeks to understand how journalists deal with storytelling and truth-seeking in their daily news practice. While storytelling is usually studied through texts, we approached it from a practice perspective, combining data from three ethnographic studies in which 36 beat reporters and 13 journalistic storytelling experts were extensively interviewed. Because of the emphasis journalists place on “finding out the truth” in public discourses, it is tempting for academics to present them as naive truth-seekers. However, by means of an interpretative repertoire analysis of their “practice” discourses, we seek to enlarge the discursive space to talk about the supposed tension between story and reality. Although departing from the idea that all news making is storytelling, the interviewed journalists consider news making and storytelling as distinct—and sometimes opposing—practices. These professional practices serve as the framework around which five storytelling repertoires are organized.


Journalism Studies | 2015

Triggering the News Story: Reconstructing reporters' newsgathering practices in the light of newspaper type, newsroom centralization, reporters' autonomy, and specialization

J.L.J. Boesman; Leen d'Haenens; Baldwin Van Gorp


Archive | 2013

De fiets van Lautrec. De eerste dopingaffaire uit de geschiedenis

J.L.J. Boesman


Tijdschrift Voor Communicatiewetenschappen | 2018

Het reconstrueren van frames in het nieuws, op redacties en in de hoofden van journalisten: Een voorstel van aanpak

B. Van Gorp; J.L.J. Boesman; A.M.J.M. Vossen


International Communication Association | 2018

Nothing but the facts?: What journalists talk about when they talk about storytelling and truth-finding

J.L.J. Boesman; I.C. Costera-Meijer


Archive | 2017

How news makers and story tellers differ in their truth-making practices

J.L.J. Boesman; I.C. Costera-Meijer

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Baldwin Van Gorp

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Leen d'Haenens

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Anna Berbers

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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B. Van Gorp

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Joyce Koeman

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Willem Joris

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Leen d’Haenens

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Tom Vercruysse

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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A.M.J.M. Vossen

Radboud University Nijmegen

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