Abstract
This research is about decision-making behaviour of news editors. In social settings, situation shapes the human behaviour. Accordingly, editorial decisions for news production and broadcast are bounded with the situation. The objective of the research is to illuminate the use of intuition and analytical process for news decisions. Qualitative methodology was used for the fieldwork. Interviews were conducted with seventeen journalists. Cultural Historical Activity Theory is used as a theoretical framework and methodological tool. Findings reveal that editors use both intuition and analytical methods for decisions. Varying situations significantly alter the editors’ way of making news broadcast decisions.
Highlights
This research is about the decision-making behaviour of news editors
The findings reveal that factors like situation, profession and task structure play crucial role on intuitive vs. analytical behaviour of editors’ decisions
Intuitive decision-making behaviour is crystallised at the breaking-news production stage
Summary
This research is about the decision-making behaviour of news editors. The objective of the research is to examine the relationship between situation, profession, task structure and the decision behaviour of news editors. Scope of the research includes the factors affecting the editorial decisions, the way the news editors process information, and the outcome of the decisions made. News production scope is limited to incident news. Financial, political meetings, press releases, magazine based breaking-news are exempted. Incident news involves large scale disasters, terrorist attacks, explosions, crashes, robbery, fire etc
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