Scoop (journalism)
The expression Scoop (English to scoop , "exhaust, clear up"; in Switzerland: Primeur ) describes an exclusive message in the language of the media that a medium disseminates earlier than other media. Scoops are therefore the result of our own research or result from tips from informants. Scoops increase the reputation of a medium, because other media - if they also want to spread the message - must necessarily refer to the first published message and the disseminating medium due to the exclusivity. Within the editorial team, too, an editor receives recognition for a scoop he has researched and which is adopted by many other media.
The writer Erwin Rosen , who volunteered as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner in 1898 , explained to his German readers what a scoop is as follows:
- “ Scoop literally means a big shovel. To scoop in means to take in, to shovel in, to sack, and in a figurative sense the mocking newspaper expression means: that you have scooped up some very important news all for yourself, first and foremost, while the sad competition is sad and the bare ground twenty-four hours later looking for shabby remains. "
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the term solo carp was also used for a scoop , as Egon Erwin Kisch reports in his book "Marktplatz der Sensationen" (Market Place of Sensations).
The hunt for supposed scoops is one of the reasons news items are so pointed, or in part made up, that they look like a scoop. In this case it is a false report (a so-called duck ).
However, the definition of the exclusivity of a scoop can be questioned. For example, a message can be a scoop in India today and only two years later in Europe. From the perspective of the recipient, it can be argued that for the media consumer basically every important message is a scoop that represents news for him personally; that is, "Scoop" is by no means an absolute status, but always depends on the recipient's current level of information.
Other uses of the term
In science, too, one speaks of scoops when scientists make a sensational discovery. “To scoop” is also used as a verb in English in the sense of “anticipating others”.
SCOOP was also the name of an EU food safety program.
Scoop in the movie
American director and actor Woody Allen shot the film Scoop as a satire on the sensationalism of some journalists .
Individual evidence
- ^ Erwin Rosen: The German rascal in America, part 2, Stuttgart: Verlag Robert Lutz, 1912, page 40, download .
- ↑ http://ec.europa.eu/food/fs/scoop/index_en.html