News Translation as Media Work in Agency Journalism? Evidence from United News of India Urdu

Western liberal media theories often neglect to recognize "news translation" as one of the journalistic practices. This paper problematizes this dominant understanding of journalistic practice and expands the Bourdieusian media sociology project beyond western media systems by applying it...

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Published in:Journalism studies (London, England) England), 2024-10, Vol.25 (13), p.1676-1697
Main Author: Amanullah, Arshad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
agency journalism
Bourdieu
Bourdieu, Pierre (1930-2002)
Case studies
Ethnography
India
Journalism
Journalists
Mass media
media work
News media
News translation
Translation
Urdu
Western society
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Summary:Western liberal media theories often neglect to recognize "news translation" as one of the journalistic practices. This paper problematizes this dominant understanding of journalistic practice and expands the Bourdieusian media sociology project beyond western media systems by applying it to Indian agency journalism. A case study of the United News of India Urdu (UNIU) serves as the basis for this examination, drawing on an ethnography of news production practices, and supplemented with in-depth interviews conducted with Muslim journalists from 2018 to 2020 across four major Indian cities. Through this investigation, the paper asserts that "news translation" is indeed a vital but contested component of media work within the sphere of Indian-language journalism. The paper uses "media work" as a key concept to demonstrate that UNIU's journalists are anchored in the field of journalism, as is evidenced by their institutional-cum-organizational location and their application of the elements of journalistic practice to their work.
ISSN:1461-670X
1469-9699
DOI:10.1080/1461670X.2024.2373911