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Schudson, Chapter 5 above) to establishing journalists’ own authority, boundaries and identity (for example, Carlson and Berkowitz in Chapter 12 below; Kitch, 2002, and Chapter 14; Meyers, 2007; Zelizer, 1992). A less developed strand of scholarship has focused on future references in the news and their uses, from prediction (Neiger, 2007) and precontextualization (Oddo, 2013) to shock avoidance (Grusin, 2010). This chapter shifts the focus to a more direct engagement with the question of what it is that journalists do with time in the telling of news stories. It seeks to develop the idea of time as a discursive and narrative resource for journalists by focusing on time itself as an object of representation and a narrative theme in its own right, by looking at news as consisting of serial narratives and layers of speech acts, and by combining the backward-and forward-looking in news within the framework of journalism …