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Chapter 6. Globalization of the emerging media newsroom

Implications for translation and international news flow in the case of BuzzFeed Japan
  • Kayo Matsushita
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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

Recent technological advances have fuelled the emergence of online media sites such as BuzzFeed, which disseminates news content across multiple platforms. Characterized by its global network, BuzzFeed relies on translation to facilitate the constant exchange of content between regions. At BuzzFeed Japan, BuzzFeed’s newest international edition at the time of writing, journalists are adapting to meet novel demands for translated multimedia content. Seldom required of conventional media journalists in Japan, news translation in the Japanese context is relatively unexplored but increasingly relevant (Matsushita 2016). Through interviews with key players of the newsroom and a full-staff survey, this chapter investigates BuzzFeed Japan’s news translation practices, highlighting journalists’ diversifying roles. It also suggests the possibility of media convergence increasing news flow from Japan to the rest of the world.

Abstract

Recent technological advances have fuelled the emergence of online media sites such as BuzzFeed, which disseminates news content across multiple platforms. Characterized by its global network, BuzzFeed relies on translation to facilitate the constant exchange of content between regions. At BuzzFeed Japan, BuzzFeed’s newest international edition at the time of writing, journalists are adapting to meet novel demands for translated multimedia content. Seldom required of conventional media journalists in Japan, news translation in the Japanese context is relatively unexplored but increasingly relevant (Matsushita 2016). Through interviews with key players of the newsroom and a full-staff survey, this chapter investigates BuzzFeed Japan’s news translation practices, highlighting journalists’ diversifying roles. It also suggests the possibility of media convergence increasing news flow from Japan to the rest of the world.

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.146.06mat

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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