Siti S.  Othman, 
    News Angle as a Non-Human Actor in the Construction of Newsworthiness: A Case Study of Sinar Harian,
    The Social Sciences,
    Volume 10,Issue 6,
    2015,
    Pages 1352-1362,
    ISSN 1818-5800,
    sscience.2015.1352.1362,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2015.1352.1362)
    Abstract: News construction is always associated with the news angle. It is the focus of the news that determines what is being emphasized in a news story, thus forming the identity of a particular newspaper. This study, focusing on a newspaper in Malaysia known as Sinar Harian, demonstrates how news angles actually construct news. Deploying actor network theory, this research treats news angles as non-human actors that directly influence what becomes news, thus able to trace how identity of a newspaper is formed. It is through the process of enrolment that the identity of a newspaper is being stabilized. Here, the newspaper identity is the result of the process rather than the ‘context’ of news production. This study concludes that the inclusion of non-human actors is always useful in understanding a particular social phenomenon.
    Keywords: newsworthiness;news angle;Actor network theory;Sinar Harian;Malaysia