ABSTRACT
News stories provide knowledge about the world we inhabit, whether it is to decide who to vote for, follow the fortunes of others, stay informed on local and global levels, or learn something new. This knowledge is created and disseminated through routinized professional practices by journalists and editors in particular institutional and cultural settings in collaborative digital workplaces in media organizations that provide standardized formats and set tight timeframes (as numerous scholars have noted). This production process and newsroom routine is based on acquired professional knowledge and it, in turn, allows journalists to select and construct social knowledge for the public. The news stories are important artifacts in the production of public knowledge and understanding, the result of journalists’ representations of reality whether partial, slanted, comprehensive, or balanced.
