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Journalism and Translation in the Era of Convergence
Edited by Lucile Davier and Kyle Conway
[Benjamins Translation Library 146] 2019
► pp. 63–81

Chapter 3
News translation on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s English and French websites

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This chapter examines the techniques journalists use to incorporate translated speech into news stories published on the websites of the French and English networks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It examines four sets of stories: national political news in French (76 stories) and in English (63 stories) and local news from Canada’s capital region in French (85 stories) and in English (98 stories). It combines content analysis, textual analysis, and ethnography to provide an update of past research about the Corporation’s television news programs in the early 1990s. It reveals that the asymmetries that have long shaped the Corporation’s French- and English-language news continue to operate, although in different form, and they continue to influence the ways journalists incorporate translated speech into their stories.
Keywords: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, form and content, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: News translation and the question of form
  • 2.Visibility and invisibility in translation
  • 3.Translation in national political stories: Overview
  • 4.Translation in national political stories: Convergent techniques
  • 5.Translation in regional stories
  • 6.Conclusion: Asymmetries in approaches to translation in the era of convergence
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 April 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.146.03gen
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