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Myths and news narratives: Towards a comparative perspective of news

Dan Berkowitz 1
Hillel Nossek 2
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The New School of Media Studies , College of Management , 9 Shoshana Persitz St., Tel‐Aviv, Israel Phone: (972) 3‐ 604–1952 Fax: (972) 3‐ 604–1952 E-mail: hnossek@colman.ac.il
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2001-01-01
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Comparative research across cultures provides a fruitful terrain for research into myths and narratives that are embedded in news content. The study of news as myth or narrative helps to examine the enduring values that a culture tells about itself. This perspective suggests that news is a social construction, but it also suggests that news amounts to an ongoing telling and retelling of familiar stories with a relatively consistent set of themes, actors and moral lessons that link with the broad, common beliefs of a dominant ideology. This study offers a nexus of structuralist and ethnographic approaches that creates a conceptual complement for the above‐mentioned kind of research. Following a conceptual discussion, the article addresses methodological considerations and offers a scheme for conducting research with a cross‐cultural research team.
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Berkowitz D., Nossek H. Myths and news narratives: Towards a comparative perspective of news // Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies. 2001. Vol. 22. No. 1. pp. 41-56.
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Berkowitz D., Nossek H. Myths and news narratives: Towards a comparative perspective of news // Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies. 2001. Vol. 22. No. 1. pp. 41-56.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1080/02560054.2001.9665880
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/02560054.2001.9665880
TI - Myths and news narratives: Towards a comparative perspective of news
T2 - Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies
AU - Berkowitz, Dan
AU - Nossek, Hillel
PY - 2001
DA - 2001/01/01
PB - Taylor & Francis
SP - 41-56
IS - 1
VL - 22
SN - 0256-0054
SN - 1942-0773
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@article{2001_Berkowitz,
author = {Dan Berkowitz and Hillel Nossek},
title = {Myths and news narratives: Towards a comparative perspective of news},
journal = {Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies},
year = {2001},
volume = {22},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
month = {jan},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/02560054.2001.9665880},
number = {1},
pages = {41--56},
doi = {10.1080/02560054.2001.9665880}
}
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Berkowitz, Dan, and Hillel Nossek. “Myths and news narratives: Towards a comparative perspective of news.” Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, Jan. 2001, pp. 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560054.2001.9665880.