ABSTRACT
This section starts with Emma Hemingway exploring what she calls ‘the various constellations of human and technological actors that in association with one another construct the daily news products of a specific organization’ (Chapter 7). Instead of concentrating on the normal analysis of managerial hierarchies or political ownership that usually influence news agendas and, arguably, news content, the preoccupation of this chapter is to unravel the often complex and unpredictable relationships between the human and the technological elements at play in everyday routines of newsgathering and production. The routines of newsmaking may be technologically embedded, but they are not indifferent to meaning.
