Investigating the Backstage of Newswriting with Process Analysis

What product-oriented approaches conceptualize as journalistic stance in news items is, from a process perspective, the result of newswriting: a complex and emergent interplay of situated production, reproduction and recontextualization activities (Catenaccio et al., 2011; Van Hout, Pander Maat and De Preter, 2011; Perrin, 2013) with individuals’ psychobiographies, social settings such as newsrooms, and contextual resources such as ‘glocalization’ (Khondker, 2004). In this first section of the chapter, I address stance from such a process perspective, as stanc-ing. The rest of the chapter then draws on the case of stance vs. stancing to explain and contextualize Progression Analysis, a multi-method approach to newswriting that is informed by Applied Linguistics (AL).