Editor and editoral system in news making process, participatory observation on Hurriyet daily case

IV ABSTRACT EDITOR AND EDITORIAL SYSTEM IN NEWS MAKING PROCESS PARTICIPATORY OBSERVATION ON HÜRRİYET DAILY CASE Deniz Kılıç Press and Publication Anadolu University, Social Science Institute February 2003 Adviser: Doç. Dr. Ali Murat Vural The subject of study is editorial process in news making and editing works of news editors. Prior to the printing of news texts in newspapers, an internal review is performed by various journalistic editors. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the editing of texts at Hürriyet Daily and what kinds of emendations are made. In addition, the study determines the importance of the gatekeeping tasks of editors. News copies of reporter have been compared with the printed news in newspaper in this study. 115 news copies have been analyzed in a data base on different levels: Identification of news, framing of news subject, editing and writing style of headlines, photo captions, and news leads. Study results showed that there are some differences between news copies of reporter and the printed news in newspaper. These differences are caused by the editors' elimination information, changing or adding some details. Second, they are using adjective although the reporter didn't use. Also editors are highlighting some details of news as to their interpretation but the reporters didn't do it.