Abstract
This article is about the unique word-image relations as these appear in international news production. This is achieved by analysing the labour of a particular team - the keyword team - in the news picture production routine at the powerful Thomson Reuters international news agency. By analysing the daily work of keyworders at Thomson Reuters, I explore how the word-image problem is demonstrated, and settled, in international news production. Similar to the picture categorising mechanisms in the stock business, I argue that word and image relations in news media can also be productive, serving as a cultural practice that helps extending the shelf-life of archived pictures, thus increasing news picture sales worldwide.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 977-993 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journalism |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Sep 2017 |
Keywords
- Ekphrasis
- Thomson Reuters
- international news production
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Communication
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)