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Journalists (1) frame actions as transgressions, (2) play the role of instigator, or, the arbitrator, and (3) help the public to determine whether transgressors should be incorporated back into the social structure. The findings suggest that journalists’ active involvement takes various forms. The study analyzes 559 SDA that emerged in Israeli public discourse from 1997 to 2004.

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This article analyzes the reasons for the interest taken by journalists in covering and generating apology discourse, the active role played by them at each stage of what I term ‘social dramas of apology’ (SDA), and the professional implications stemming from their involvement. The extensive coverage of these gestures by the press in many cases aroused heated public struggles over the norm transgressed and the future of the transgressor in the public arena. Theoretically, the article combines perspectives from a critical approach (the media as channels for political authorities during crisis) and a cultural approach (the media as constitutive for resilience and recovery) to contribute to the understanding of crisis journalism in a multi-platform, multi-directional media landscape.ĭuring recent decades, the abundance of apologies made by public actors has lent credence to the claim that we are living in the age of apology. Second, it gives insights into how changes in the perceived climate of opinion and increasingly vocal critical voices gradually affect editorial practices and challenge consensus.

Based on in-depth interviews with debate editors, this article analyses how this type of national crisis discourse is substantiated and guarded through editorial decisions and policies. A broad literature has documented that after crisis, mainstream media move away from their everyday critical function to a ritual type of journalism that fosters adherence to shared values and support for national authorities. This article analyses the role of central editors in constructing a national debate in the Norwegian media after the 2011 Oslo terror attacks. Theoretically the article contributes to the literature on disruptive (key) events, editorial strategies during crisis, editorial control in contemporary media systems and editorial approaches to mediated deviance. In the traditional op-ed formats, however, they selectively expanded the range of voices and included actors deemed too extreme prior to the attacks. In their online comment sections, the media organizations all moved towards a more interventionist policy introducing multiple new control measures. Based on in-depth interviews with debate editors, the article documents how terror profoundly challenges editorial practices, routines and norms in media organizations with debates in multiple formats and platforms. Meeting the call for more research on disruptive media events in a hybrid media landscape, it illuminates how professional media balance critical debate with strategies for societal recovery in contemporary post-crisis contexts. The present article analyzes how one traumatic event-the 2011 Oslo terror-challenged editorial practices related to editorial control and open debate in major Norwegian media organizations. Terror attacks force democratic societies to mobilize, reinforce and rethink core values, including media freedom and freedom of speech. Both papers move the discourse on school shootings toward a societal ideal though neither narrative reaches the transformative discourse that has invoked national reflexivity noted in past instances of tragedy. While the News-Review reaches reintegration by achieving a sense of normalcy, the New York Times stalls in a state of liminality. The local outlet reinforces consensus with authority by focusing on victims and the grieving process to achieve the social good of healing and recovery and the national newspaper challenges the status quo by focusing on the shooter and legislative reform. Instead, journalistic ritual is subject to the crisis, proximity to the tragedy and audience.

This study finds that narrative patterns for the local and national newspapers do not parallel, suggesting differences in role perceptions. Textual analysis is used to compare stories from The Roseburg News-Review and the New York Times in terms of the narrative’s movement from breach, crisis, redress and finally to either reintegration or separation.

This article applies Victor Turner’s schema of ‘social drama’ to examine narrative rituals and the roles performed by a local and national newspaper in their coverage of the Umpqua Community College shooting that took place in October 2015.

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