Many early sociological studies of news work converge around the importance
of the deadline as an organisational norm, and a determining factor in how news is
_manufactured_, a theme which dominated the field studies of the 1970s and 1980s;
(Tunstall 1971; Epstein 1973; Golding and Elliott 1979; Schlesinger 1987). But where
space is boundless, and where deadlines are not constrained within a fixed publica-
tion schedule, such issues cannot continue to be considered to direct our under-
standing of the inclusion and/or prioritisation of certain stories in news production
(Franklin 1997).