Simultaneous production and transmission: the immediacy of newsroom rundowns in the digital era

Abstract

This article reports on one of the lines of a wider research project devoted to the study of television newscast scripting in the digital era. It explores the changes news rundowns undergo during live broadcasts. Data gathered through participant observation has been analysed from the perspective of journalism theory. Rather than exploring the impact of IT on organizational models (multi-tasking journalism, integrated newsrooms), the authors have chosen to focus on how news stories are currently presented. The findings of this study indicate that the lapse of time between news production and news broadcasting is narrowing sharply.