Abstract

This article aims to show how Italian national newscasts portray private individuals who are witnesses of wars. Based on the difference between voice-over and simil sync, this article investigates how and when these audiovisual translation modalities are employed in the newscasts of Italian television channels. The analysis identifies how correspondents have chosen to give voice to their interviewees in the Ukrainian-Russian and Palestinian-Israeli zones of war. Furthermore, based on the speaker’s voice attitude, the study seeks to investigate whether news report items are more informative or more emotional. This perspective contributes to a deeper understanding of the role of AVT in shaping the portrayal of war witnesses in the media. In line with Darwish (2006), Darwish and Orero (2014), and Ameri and Khoshsaligheh (2018), who investigated the use of voice-over in news reports, the qualitative analysis in this article seeks to lie between the audiovisual translation framework and journalism translation (Valdeón 2022).

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