The Decisive Instants in News-making: Individual and Collective Temporalities in Broadcast Journalism

Abstract

This paper explores "temporalities in broadcast journalism" and how they affect the process of television production. We understand temporalities as discontinuous flows of time. They can be experienced collectively and individually in the newsroom: from production and investigation, to decision making by the editor with the news programme on air. Thus, time functions as productive operator, and temporality as a value for the realization of broadcast journalism. We undertook a participant observation in the newsroom of TV Cabo Branco, Globo affiliate in João Pessoa, Brazil, and interviewed the journalists who make JPB 1st Edition.