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This article addresses the relationship between the construction of news and personal experiences. Ethnography and narrative approaches are used to study a metropolitan newspaper where it is discovered that personalization contributes in large part to the decisions made by editors regarding whether or not an event is considered newsworthy. This discovery adds another dimension to the perspective that news is a social construction because it presents news as a decision-making process and highlights the human elements which contribute to the determination of news.
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Ajrouch, K. Personalization and the Determination of News. Qualitative Sociology 21, 341–350 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022150721381
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022150721381