This study reveals how interview discourses embodied in higher-level genres vary according to the discourse purpose and institutionalization level. Specifically, it analyzes episodes of news briefing and the entertainment program Hope Song at Noon, discussing street dance craze. Questions and answers dominated the discourse following the interview structure of news programs. The structure of questions and answers was accompanied by entertainment program talks. Regarding the characteristics of the interview questions and discourse, the news program delivered information as a social issue, while the entertainment program focused on interactions with dancers and entertainment activities. Thus, news programs shape discourse along a social dimension, while entertainment programs highlight individuals’ attractiveness and influence. Further, while news program viewers speak in a limited manner, listeners directly and actively participate in interview discourses in entertainment programs, which are embodied through language choices. Here, news programs employ formal language and normative and comprehensive vocabulary, and entertainment programs use every day and colloquial language and entertainment-specific vocabulary. This observation is significant as it examines entertainmentization of information and the informatization of entertainment.

This paper analyzes the footing shift by focusing on an interviewer’s questioning from the conversation of a Korean TV news interview. By dividing the interviewer’s questions into adversarial questions and non-adversarial questions, this study investigates what footing shift functions and what the interviewer wants to achieve through it. The analysis of the news interview reveals that footing shift in adversarial questions performs a function of defense. The interviewer attributes the responsibility of remarks that criticize and refute interviewees to a third party so that they can defend themselves against the criticism of attacking interviewees. On the other hand, the footing shift in non-adversarial questions is used to introduce a new topic to the conversation. The interviewer speaks on behalf of a third party when the new topic indicates one’s position on a contentious topic. It enables the interviewer to entirely conceal his personal opinion and lead the discussion in depth. In conclusion, footing shift in questions allows an interviewer to satisfy institutional demands of the news interview. Furthermore, it is found that interviewees collaborate to preserve the interviewer’s stance of footing shift in their responses.

이 연구는 뉴스 미디어 환경 변화에 대응하기 위해 연합뉴스가 빅데이터 저널리즘을 어떠한 방식으로 활용해야 하는지에 관하여 심층 분석하였다. 이를 위해 연합뉴스 기자들과 빅데이터 저널리즘 전문가들을 대상으로 뉴스 미디어 환경 변화, 변화하는 연합뉴스의 위상과 전략, 빅데이터 저널리즘의 필요성과 활용방안에 관한 심층인터뷰를 실시하였다. 연구결과, 미디어 환경의 변화는 소비자들이 뉴스 생산에 적극적으로 참여할 수 있는 토대를 마련해 주었지만 불확실한 뉴스 유통이나 선정적 기사 양산, 언론의 신뢰도 하락 등 심각한 부작용을 초래하고 있었다. 연합뉴스는 언론사들을 대상으로 하는 도매상 역할과 일반 독자들과 만나는 소매상 역할을 동시에 맡게 되었고, 이에 따라 속보 외에도 일반 독자들의 요구에 맞춘 새로운 기사의 형식과 내용을 시도하는 전략 수정이 요구되고 있다. 저널리즘의 신뢰성과 공정성을 회복하기 위한 혁신 방안 중 하나로 제시된 빅데이터 저널리즘은 탐사보도, 지역보도 등에 활용될 수 있을 것으로 분석되었고 이를 위한 선결 과제로 전담 부서와 인력 확충, 기자 교육 프로그램 마련, 공공 데이터 확보 등이 실무적 차원으로 제시되었다.

Suh, Kyunghee. 2014. Pulling off Being Both Adversarial and Neutralistic: The case of Korean News Interview. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 22(3). This study analyzes how a journalist can design his question to strike a balance between two competing journalistic norms-neutrality and adversarialness-within the framework of conversation analysis. An analysis of the three news interview segments in JTBC News 9 reveals that the interviewer, Seok-hee Sohn, resorts to the extensive use of prefaced questions. These prefaced questions depict the third person-attributed statements in a way that distances Sohn from his more overtly opinionated remarks. The use of quotation from others serves a dual function: it enables the interviewer to express adversarial criticism of his guests, while maintaining a formally neutralistic posture. Yet this strategy is also employed to give the interviewee the chance to justify him/herself. Particular attention should be given to the observation that Sohn deliberately refrains from asking questions after revealing sensitive details about the interviewee. The interviewer sometimes implicitly voices his own adversarial stance even in a seemingly neutralistic question, thereby showing how the interviewer can function as a ‘devil's advocate’ in a news interview. The question design examined in this study suggests that innovation in question design and rhetoric in news interviews can reflect changes in social and political attitudes, norms, and behavior.