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Cite as: Dervin, B. & Huesca, R. (2001). Practicing journalism communicatively: Moving from journalism practiced as ideology to journalism practiced as theorized procedure. In S. R. Melkote & S. Rao (Eds.), Critical issues in communication, looking inward for answers: Essays honoring K. E. Eapen (pp. 321-344). New Delhi, India: Sage. Reprinted in: B. Dervin & L. Foreman-Wernet (with E. Lauterbach) (Eds.). (2003). Sense-Making Methodology reader: Selected writings of Brenda Dervin (pp. 309-324). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
© Hampton Press and Brenda Dervin (2003), reprinted by permission of Sage Publications (2001).

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ABSTRACT:
Published in a festschrift honoring the scholarship of K. E. Eapen, this essay sought to apply Eapen’s Socratic spirit of questioning to the very context which characterized much of Eapen’s intellectual project—the practices of modern journalism. The essay starts by reviewing what they see as the three approaches journalism has traditionally used to cope with sense-making differences—expertise, political necessity, and cultural necessity. Each of these results in practices based on whats and whos—who gets to speak about what. The authors argue that these are non-communicative ways of addressing communication issues and as such allow journalism to be practices as ideology rather than as communication theorized procedure. They call for and illustrate with examples the application of a communication theory of communication in journalism practice.

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