Gazetelerin Haber Karar Süreçleri ve Haber Kararlarını Etkileyen Faktörler: Karşılaştırmalı Bir Saha Araştırması

Yıl 2014, Sayı: 39, 26 - 47, 30.12.2014

Uğur Küçüközyiğit

Öz

Bu çalışma, gazetecilerin haber karar süreçlerini ve kararlarına etki eden faktörleri, haber toplantılarında yapılan gözlemler ışığında analiz etmektedir. Mesleğin en önemli karar platformu olan haber toplantılarına ilişkin bu gözlemler, dört ulusal gazetede, ‘Katılımcı Olmayan Gözlemci’ tekniğiyle gerçekleştirilmiştir. Ayrıca, toplantılara katılan gazetecilerden, gözlem bulgularını derinleştirmeyi amaçlayan bir soru setini de cevaplamaları istenmiştir. Saha araştırması, gazetecilerin karar alma biçimleri, haber toplantılarının işleyişi ve toplantıların haber üretimindeki rolü hakkında karşılaştırmalı sonuçlar ortaya koymaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Haber Kararı, Haber Toplantısı, Gündem Toplantısı, Birinci Sayfa Toplantısı

Decision Making Process of the Journals and Factors Affecting the News Decision Making Process: A Comparative Field Research

Öz

This study, analysis the journalists’ decisionmaking processes and factors affecting the “news decision making” in the light of the observations on daily news planning sessions, which are the most important decision platforms of the journalism. Observations for the study were practiced by using “Non-participant Observer” method in four national newspapers. Additionally, participant journalists have been asked to fulfill a “deepening question set” to make the observations more trustable. This field research reveals comperative results about the journalists’ behivours of decision making, mechanism of news meetings and effect of these meetings to news production.

Anahtar Kelimeler

News Decisionmaking, News Meeting, Agenda Meeting, Front Page Meeting.

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