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The audio slideshow - or soundslide report - represents a new format for journalistic reporting on online news sites. It is not very widely used, but it has certain discursive and aesthetic potentials indicating that it could contribute substantially to the ecology of journalistic genres. The article offers an illustration and discussion of these potentials, asking how the format communicates and how it affects journalism in general. Starting out with a close reading of a sample text and a discussion of the format’s position in a network of genres, the article concludes that the soundslide report belongs to a new wave of ”aesthetic journalism”, where journalism and art intersect

The Soundslide Report

Department of Nordic and Media Studies, University of Agder

Nordicom Review

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Innovative Journalism or Misplaced Works of Art?

The audio slideshow - or soundslide report - represents a new format for journalistic reporting on online news sites. It is not very widely used, but it has...

The Soundslide Report

Publié en ligne: 06 juin 2014

Pages: 99 - 113

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2014-0007

Mots clés
aesthetic journalism, genre studies, multimodality, visual culture, digital communication, social semiotics

© by Martin Engebretsen

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

The Soundslide Report

Publié en ligne: 06 juin 2014

Pages: 99 - 113

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2014-0007

Mots clésaesthetic journalism, genre studies, multimodality, visual culture, digital communication, social semiotics

© by Martin Engebretsen

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Mots clés
aesthetic journalism, genre studies, multimodality, visual culture, digital communication, social semiotics