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Chapter 3. News translation on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s English and French websites

  • Philippe Gendron , Kyle Conway and Lucile Davier
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Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence
This chapter is in the book Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence

Abstract

This chapter examines the techniques journalists use to incorporate translated speech into news stories published on the websites of the French and English networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It examines four sets of stories: national political news in French (76 stories) and in English (63 stories) and local news from Canada’s capital region in French (85 stories) and in English (98 stories). It combines content analysis, textual analysis, and ethnography to provide an update of past research about the Corporation’s television news programs in the early 1990s. It reveals that the asymmetries that have long shaped the Corporation’s French- and English-language news continue to operate, although in different form, and they continue to influence the ways journalists incorporate translated speech into their stories.

Abstract

This chapter examines the techniques journalists use to incorporate translated speech into news stories published on the websites of the French and English networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It examines four sets of stories: national political news in French (76 stories) and in English (63 stories) and local news from Canada’s capital region in French (85 stories) and in English (98 stories). It combines content analysis, textual analysis, and ethnography to provide an update of past research about the Corporation’s television news programs in the early 1990s. It reveals that the asymmetries that have long shaped the Corporation’s French- and English-language news continue to operate, although in different form, and they continue to influence the ways journalists incorporate translated speech into their stories.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Platform
  5. Chapter 1. Translingual quoting in journalism 15
  6. Chapter 2. Transediting Trump 43
  7. Chapter 3. News translation on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s English and French websites 63
  8. Part II. Event
  9. Chapter 4. News through a social media filter 85
  10. Chapter 5. Framing terrorism in the U.S., French, and Arabic editions of HuffPost 107
  11. Part III. Practice
  12. Chapter 6. Globalization of the emerging media newsroom 135
  13. Chapter 7. Tracing convergence in the translation of community radio news 155
  14. Chapter 8. Technological convergence threatening translation 177
  15. Index 209
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.146.03gen

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Platform
  5. Chapter 1. Translingual quoting in journalism 15
  6. Chapter 2. Transediting Trump 43
  7. Chapter 3. News translation on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s English and French websites 63
  8. Part II. Event
  9. Chapter 4. News through a social media filter 85
  10. Chapter 5. Framing terrorism in the U.S., French, and Arabic editions of HuffPost 107
  11. Part III. Practice
  12. Chapter 6. Globalization of the emerging media newsroom 135
  13. Chapter 7. Tracing convergence in the translation of community radio news 155
  14. Chapter 8. Technological convergence threatening translation 177
  15. Index 209
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