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    T: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the conference graveyard. The title of this presentation refers to a paper Ellen and I have written. It’s about how journalists perform in-group professional competence. We won’t be presenting it though. Instead, we would like to talk about the making of. Now, I asked Ellen about a year ago if she was willing to work on a paper with me since I was sitting on a ton of data that I knew I was not going to able to plough through. She said that it would cost me dearly. And so I promptly sold my eldest son into slavery and we got down to business.

    Now, what set us apart was that I had collected the data at a newsroom in Brussels and literally handed the data down to Ellen. And this particular asymmetry leads us to a rather thorny issue:

    Which is why, we’ve decided to present our paper today not as a given, but as a construct. Focus on the trans process, investigate the activity that produced it and share with you our successive and multilayered choices ( SHOW PICTURE ON CLICK ), choices which were made behind-the-scenes, in our offices in ongoing exchanges and battles over a four-month period.

    Link back to positions of authority during previous presentations: So let me shift into a position of authority and talk about my fieldwork – this means that Ellen cannot interrupt me. A rarity. I conducted fieldwork at De Standaard, a Dutch-language, quality newspaper in Brussels.

    Let me briefly contextualize these audio data. A typical day at the newsroom is built around a routine of story meetings which manage the unpredictability of news.

    I attended and recorded some 40 story meetings at the economics newsdesk. Story budget is a « script of news » : a list of preselected stories that the desk chief distributes in consultation with the reporters present These meetings are chaired by the desk chief and follow a strict pattern.

    So, hence our question: when reporters break into narrative performance, does this add onto their reputation/image of a trustworthy, investigative, competent reporter? Do extended turns of talk provide them with a platform for the (re)enactment of competence?

    By following this new thread into my data, the otherwise so mundane routine took on quite a different dimension. Let me try and explain this. The base and break patterns are embedded in particular routines of verbalized decision-making in which a text – the story budget is talked into being, it is performed this talk is consequently re-entextualized as a new text this sequence of text-talk-text is repeated in an upward trajectory of editorial decision-making which in turn, gives shape to an intertextual hierarchy in which texts regulate other texts – and thus a sequence of action In other words, what I was overlooking was an organizational process that stabilizes specific meanings by molding those meanings into more durable manifestations

    Summing up, the complexity that Ellen has talked about is relevant because secondary analysis confronts you all the more with that complexity. Whereas this asymmetrical collaboration has increased complexity, it has also added intensity, more conflicting assumptions and interpretations. And hence, more rich points. Transcription = analysis – blurs the line primary and secondary analysis

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      • Competence on display:
      • intertextuality at work during
      • editorial meetings.
      • Tom Van Hout & Ellen Van Praet
      International DiO Workshop @ Ghent, 18 September 2009
    2. Mapping out some (a)symmetries fieldwork hand-me-down data collection joint effort: slow and small data analysis linguistic anthropology, media anthropology, 21st Century politics of child slavery theory performance of competence research focus linguistic ethnography research interest Tom Ellen
    3. Dealing with asymmetries
      • “ our colleague could not understand the full depth of what was going on in the transcripts”
      • (Blommaert 1997: 32)
      • a challenge to reflect on the assumed risks of decontextualization
      • data analysis as a social construct
    4. What in the world were we thinking?
    5. Fieldwork @ De Standaard
    6. Editorial decision-making at De Standaard desk chiefs and chief editor review yesterday’s paper and discuss major story lines for next day 10:00am newsdesks convene: review, select and assign stories for next day’s paper 2:00pm copy-editors and chief editor review, select and place front page stories 2:45pm copy-editors and chief editor follow up front page story placement and development 5:30pm copy-editors review news copy: spell-check, caption photos, lay-out 8:00pm next day’s newspaper is sent to the printing press 10:00pm Routinizing the unpredictable
    7. Editorial decision-making at De Standaard desk chiefs and chief editor review yesterday’s paper and discuss major story lines for next day 10:00am newsdesks convene: review, select and assign stories for next day’s paper 2:00pm copy-editors and chief editor review, select and place front page stories 2:45pm copy-editors and chief editor follow up front page story placement and development 5:30pm copy-editors review news copy: spell-check, caption photos, lay-out 8:00pm next day’s newspaper is sent to the printing press 10:00pm
      • economics newsdesk
      • story budget
      • chaired by the desk chief
    8. Observations & research questions
      • dialogical base and break pattern
      • interspersed with micro-narratives
      • do extended turns of talk provide a platform for the (re)enactment of competence?
    9. Visualizing news trajectories desk chiefs and chief editor review yesterday’s paper and discuss major story lines for next day 10:00am newsdesks convene: review, select and assign stories for next’s days paper 2:00pm copy-editors and chief editor review, select and place front page stories 2:45pm copy-editors and chief editor follow up front page story placement and development 5:30pm Newsroom diary Story review Budget 1.0 Text-talk-text Budget 1.0 Story meeting Budget 2.0 Text-talk-text Budget 3.0 Editorial meeting Story production & budget 3.0 Text-talk-text Budget 3.0 Story updates newspaper Text-talk-text
    10. (Mis)representing authorial voices
      • Paper silences co-constructed, process of analysis
      • Runs parallel with news production
      Cody Brown
    11. (Mis)representing authorial voices
      • Paper silences co-constructed, process of analysis
      • Runs parallel with news production
      Cody Brown
    12. Conclusions
      • Contra Blommaert, secondary analysis increases complexity: it adds
          • more conflicting assumptions
          • interpretations
          • rich points
      • « Analysis contributes to the intensification of discourse, reconfirming existing realities and/or opening up alternative ones. » (Iedema 2007: 940)

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