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This Chapter presents three sections focusing on the sources informing the AVNews Corpus, with the aim of explaining the reasons that drove the choice of these news outlets and to present these sources in order to frame them in their respective socio-cultural contexts, in the corpus structure and in terms of the relationship each source, as sub-corpus, entertains with the other. In the first section, I will consider RAI and the BBC as main representatives of these two national contexts, providing a brief overview on these broadcasters’ history, their aims and corporate structures. In these contexts, news is presented under a monolingual mainstream perspective within each country’s national borders. In the second section, I will focus on a pan-European broadcaster, i.e. Euronews, as representative of the supranational context of diffusion of the news. Finally, a third section of this chapter will report about translational practices in each of these networks, by using first-hand sources of information and/or by reviewing the existing ethnographic work about them or a mix of the two.
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21.5 - I membri del consiglio di amministrazione (nel numero di sette) a far data dal primo rinnovo successivo al 3 febbraio 2016 sono così individuati: (a) due eletti dalla Camera dei deputati e due eletti dal Senato della Repubblica, con voto limitato a un solo candidato; (b) due designati dal Consiglio dei ministri, su proposta del Ministro dell’economia e delle finanze, conformemente ai criteri e alle modalità di nomina dei componenti degli organi di amministrazione delle società controllate direttamente o indirettamente dal Ministero dell’economia e delle finanze; (c) uno designato dall’assemblea dei dipendenti della RAI S.p.A., tra i dipendenti dell’azienda titolari di un rapporto di lavoro subordinato da almeno tre anni consecutivi, con modalità che garantiscano la trasparenza e la rappresentatività della designazione stessa. (VV. AA., 2016, p. 8). 21. 5—Members of the board of directors (seven), from the first renewal after February, 3 2016 are chosen as follows: (a) two members elected by the Chamber of Deputies and two by the Senate, each voter can vote only one candidate; (b) two members chosen by the Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Minister of Economy and Finance, according to the criteria established for the nomination of the board members of companies directly or indirectly controlled by the Ministry of Economy and Finance; (c) one member chosen by RAI S.p.A.’s employees general assembly, to which employees with a subordinate contract of at least three years are allowed, taking measures to guarantee transparency and representativeness of the decision.
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From 2016 Rainews24 has a new chief editor, A. Di Bella, who made substantial changes both to the channel layout and contents, adding an interesting online-based news service in English, “Rainews Weekly”. However, the audio-visual texts of this study were recorded in 2015, for this reason the Di Bella’s administration and what that entails for the channel will not be discussed here.
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To date, the BBC is still part of the EBU (https://www.ebu.ch/about/members), however, there are ongoing discussions over the future of this partnership after Brexit deal (or no deal) will be finalised.
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http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-viewing-summary/ [19 September 2016].
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At RAI, Rai Tre features regional or local newscasts four times a day.
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English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Geek, Ukrainian, Hungarian.
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This happens, for example, in Italy, where Euronews is available via live streaming on RAI website and in simulcast during specific time windows on Rainews24.
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http://it.euronews.com/bulletin Italian, http://www.euronews.com/bulletin English.
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This button and this area of the webpage, however, were not present at the time of the recordings.
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There is in fact a code of ethics which generally apply to the entirety of RAI Group. http://www.rai.it/dl/docs/1381735752342codiceetico.pdf [19 September 2016].
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All sensitive information has been anonymized including CE’s SL.
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My search words were: interpret*, translat*, language*, transfer* and reversion*. Language was the only productive search.
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Aragrande, G. (2020). Three Sources for a Comparable Multilingual Audio-Visual Corpus: Broadcasting News in Different Languages and Contexts. In: Fascinating Transitions in Multilingual Newscasts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48759-1_3
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