TY - JOUR
T1 - 'And here's the news'
T2 - Analysing the evolution of the marketed newsreader
AU - Bainbridge, Jason
AU - Bestwick, Jane
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The newsreader has been a constant fixture of television since its inception but for the most part they have remained elusive objects of study, slipping between journalism studies and celebrity studies. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature by providing a brief historical overview of television newsreading in Australia, together with an analysis of the relationship between newsreaders, gender, celebrity and ratings. In this way we want to put forward a new model for thinking about the relationship between the newsreader and celebrity, as not being antithetical concepts, but rather complementary parts of the marketed newsreader's function: a figure who is as heavily implicated in the marketing and promotion of news as they are in its dissemination.
AB - The newsreader has been a constant fixture of television since its inception but for the most part they have remained elusive objects of study, slipping between journalism studies and celebrity studies. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature by providing a brief historical overview of television newsreading in Australia, together with an analysis of the relationship between newsreaders, gender, celebrity and ratings. In this way we want to put forward a new model for thinking about the relationship between the newsreader and celebrity, as not being antithetical concepts, but rather complementary parts of the marketed newsreader's function: a figure who is as heavily implicated in the marketing and promotion of news as they are in its dissemination.
KW - Australian television
KW - Celebrity
KW - Journalism
KW - Newsreading
KW - Television studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77950302441&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0163443709355607
DO - 10.1177/0163443709355607
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77950302441
SN - 0163-4437
VL - 32
SP - 205
EP - 223
JO - Media, Culture and Society
JF - Media, Culture and Society
IS - 2
ER -