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Defining Broadcast News Reporting = La définition d'un bulletin de nouvelles

Item number (ISN):

113824

Series title:

Beyond the Printed Word Symposium = Colloque Au-delà de l'écrit

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1988-10-20

Item number (ISN):

113824

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADA. NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA / ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU CANADA: MOVING IMAGE AND SOUND ARCHIVES

Accession:

1988-0466

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1988-10-20

Production company:

Moving Image and Sound Archives

Sponsor:

National Archives of Canada
Association for the Study of Canadian Radio & Television

Description:

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The relationship between news reporting, current affairs, news documentary and print news is the topic of the 4th session. Chairperson, Donald Gillies, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, introduces Don J. Macdonald, former News Director, CBC, Liss Jeffrey and Lon Dubinsky of McGill and Concordia Universities, respectively. Don Macdonald talks about the evolution of news and current affairs in Canadian broadcasting. He shares with the audience his recollections of people who contributed to the shaping of news and current affairs journalism, and about the milestones in the growth of news broadcasting. He refers to the parallel development of news and current affairs programming on television, the friction between the two competing services, the separation of the two and the eventual reconciliation. He lists but a few of the most important programs that were produced by news and current affairs: THIS HOUR HAS SEVEN DAYS, THE FIFTH ESTATE, THE NATIONAL & THE JOURNAL. Donald Gillies calls on Ms. Jeffrey to read her paper entitled "From Feature Documentary to the Television News Doc: Observations on the Evolution of a Canadian Tradition". Jeffrey refers to a McGill study on the "ecology of the audience for information programming", elaborates on that theme and on the conclusions derived therefrom. The types of measurements used to collect the data are referred to as well as their significance in respect of several considerations. The speaker connects the development of news and information services to Canadian culture in the sense that the latter informed the former. She relates this fact to the structure of contemporary information programs: documentaries with news content and vice versa. After speaking of the relationship between the National Film Board and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Ms. Jeffrey proposes a number of topics in the same vein that would increase understanding of broadcast news reporting in relation to documentaries.~In his paper "Ancestral Awakening: The Reshaping of Broadcast News", Lon Dubinsky speaks of the connection between the print media and TV broadcast news. He refers to the history of that connection, pointing first to the divorce between speech and the written word, then to the adoption of print news conventions by broadcast journalism, and the eventual coming together of text and television broadcasting. He cites examples to illustrate the ritualistic dependence of broadcasters on the written word while on the air. For added support to this thesis, Dubinsky refers to the power of TV to give prestige to politics just as the print media were able to do before the advent of TV, and still does. The session ends with a series of commented screenings.

Language:

English / Français

Notes:

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1. Recorded by the National Archives of Canada and the Association for the Study of Canadian Radio and Television.~2. Written presentations: News and Current Affairs - Don Macdonald.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

104065

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1988-0466/03

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

62:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

104068

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C06739

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

122:00

Made from:

1988-0466/02
1988-0466/03

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

104076

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1988-0466/04

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

61:40

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

574569

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

113824-1988-0466-03-S1.wav
113824-1988-0466-03-S2.wav
113824-1988-0466-04-S1.wav

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

65:56

Made from:

1988-0466/03
1988-0466/04

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

574570

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

113824-1988-0466-03-S1.mp3
113824-1988-0466-03-S2.mp3
113824-1988-0466-04-S1.mp3

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

65:56

Made from:

1988-0466/03
1988-0466/04

Status:

REF
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Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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