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Ticha, Abel Akara. "Selecting stories to tell: the gatekeeping of international news at SAfm." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004520.
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The premise of this thesis is that the selection of international news to be aired on the bulletins of SAfm by SABC Radio News staff is influenced by more complex factors than could be seen solely from the prism of an empirical journalistic paradigm. Drawing from data obtained through participant observation and interviewing, it is noted that there has been a revolution from a propagandist approach during apartheid to a professional approach following the demise of apartheid, in the selection of international news for bulletins on SAfm. Using Lewin's theory of forces in decision making and locating it within four out of five levels of a framework of gatekeeping analysis provided by Shoemaker (1991) and Shoemaker et al (200 I), it is concluded that the delimiting well-tested routines of newsmaking act as powerful companions of individuals' selection decisions of international news broadcast on SAfm's bulletins. However, these routines are adapted to meet the organisational demands of the SABC, which as a Public Service Broadcaster (PBS) has embraced the discourse of South African nationalism/panAfricanism, as a major philosophy underpinning the Corporation's coverage of the world. Therefore, some individual, routine and organisational factors influencing the se lection of international news broadcast on SAfm's bulletins, are predetermined and co-determined by the social system (the ideological/discursive structure), which is promoted by certain social institutions. Instances of spokespersons of such institutions as governments, international governmental and non-governmental organisations, etc., officiating the news abound; the gatekeepers use them to meet routine professional standards of journalism. This potentially works to sustain the hegemonic discourses of the powerful in international affairs (in tenns of core/peripheral nations relations, and elite classlruled majority relations) though there is a conscious oppositional effort to modify or dwarf stories that explicitly promote imperialism and to hold rulers accountable to the public. It is posited that the time is ripe for newsworkers responsible for the production of bulletins for SAfm to take the risk that may be necessary to inject a few changes in routine practices that could limit the engineering of consent to the powerful elites in the international arena.
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Dunn, Robert L. "On the Crest of a (Short) Wave: The Rise and Fall of International Radio Broadcasting." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2007. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1055.
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Since 1927 international broadcasters have spanned oceans and transcended borders through the use of shortwave radio. In the beginning of the 21st century, some longtime shortwave stations have sharply cut back their English language services, particularly to North America and the Pacific region; at least one station has signed off forever. This paper examines the history of shortwave broadcasting--how it came to be, how it was used and by whom. Through interviews with broadcasters and listeners, it also explores the nature of the shortwave "experience"--especially how shortwave listening is different from listening to other media. Finally, this paper looks at what forces have precipitated such rapid and drastic changes in an 80-year old medium, why some adherents say new technologies are not necessarily suitable substitutes for shortwave, and what the near future holds for international radio broadcasting.
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Stoneman, Timothy H. B. "Capturing Believers: American International Radio, Religion, and Reception, 1931-1975." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/10415.
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Capturing Believers provides a history of the reception of American conservative evangelical missionary broadcasting from its inception in 1931 through the rise of the commercial era in 1970. The dissertation narrates accounts of two major Protestant stations, HCJB and ELWA, located in Ecuador and Liberia, respectively, as well as the U.S.-based project to build a custom transistor radio for the mission field. Employing a case-study approach, the thesis demonstrates the innovativeness of religious broadcasters who formulated a range of pragmatic responses to the drastic shortage of receiving sets in the southern hemisphere, including the use of social convention and the development of pretuned receiver technology. Missionary stations imported not only radios, but a constellation of American values into host countries through their reception activities. Overall, officials employed creative methods to construct a particular type of listener experience known as radio capture, characterized by regular listening in a domestic setting. By penetrating into the home or village and exposing listeners to proprietary broadcasts on a continual, even daily, basis, missionary receiver programs legitimized American conservative evangelicalism abroad and sowed seeds for a widespread revival of Protestantism in Latin America and Africa after 1970.
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Xiangtao, David Wang. "News "Outlook" in international broadcasting : a case study of Radio Australia's Connect Asia program /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6670.
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The main proposition of this thesis is that the news media serve as public connectors in sustaining and stabilizing national citizens’ transnational public connection to the global public sphere. The term transnational public connection refers to civic orientation to affairs beyond national borders. This approach builds on Couldry et al.’s (2006, 2007)’s notion of nationally based “public connection”. This thesis contends that in order to fulfill such a role, the news media need to provide international news with a transnational outlook, which interprets and describes international events and affairs in relation to different countries, the region and ultimately the globe.<br>Considering different factors affecting international news reporting, this thesis posits that news content carried by international broadcasters would generally have a broader outlook than national news media. Hence it focused its effort on examining one type of international broadcaster: government-funded shortwave radio. This thesis argues that shortwave radio broadcasting is still relevant in today’s multimedia environment. This thesis contends that shortwave radio broadcasting functions as a crucial supplementary “external public connector” in connecting publics located in the world’s less developed regions and/or under repressive regimes to the global public sphere. Therefore it is important for them to incorporate transnational news outlook in their news reporting.<br>This thesis argues that shortwave radio broadcasters’ core mission of carrying out government public diplomacy does not necessarily act as an impediment to their incorporating a transnational outlook in their news reporting. It proposes that the changing notion of public diplomacy is theoretically intertwined with the concept of transnational public connection; hence it is potentially an impetus for news with transnational outlook to emerge. But for such potential to be fully realized, this thesis argues that the broadcasting stations needs to have certain levels of editorial independence and be able to balance the interests of its home country and target region in its news coverage.<br>Using Australia’s international shortwave broadcaster, ABC Radio Australia as a case study, this research attempts to discover whether international news with a transnational outlook could be found and to try to define the parameters of such a type of news. Operationalizing a three dimensions approach proposed by Berglez (2008) in a quantitative content analysis, this study examined news content broadcast by Radio Australia’s flagship news program Connect Asia over a period of nine weeks. It found that news with a transnational outlook does exist in Connect Asia’s news coverage and the emergence of this type of news is closely linked with news topics. This type of news is more likely to emerge in news topics such as environment and health. It also found that news with a transnational outlook comprises a very small proportion of the totality of Connect Asia’s news coverage. The frequency of such news is limited by Connect Asia’s overwhelming focus on the news topic of politics. This thesis discusses several contributory factors which resulted in Connect Asia’s overall emphasis on politics and contends that government-funded international broadcasters, as well as other international broadcasters might need to de-politicize and broaden the scope of their news coverage in order to further incorporate a transnational outlook.
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Fulcher, Helen Margaret. "A qualitative analysis of radio news in Australia." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armf962.pdf.
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Temo, Sumbu. "Broadcasting Peace In CôTe D’Ivoire: What Happens After Democracy? : A case study of Côte d’Ivoire’s UN radio- ONUCI FM." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Journalistik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-39642.
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This research will analyze the radio station ONUCI FM, UN’s peace radio in Côte d’Ivoire. The central focus is on journalists’ perception of their role as professional advocacy for peace and democracy. Personal interviews with five ONUCI FM-journalists provide the primary source of qualitative source. In light of the Security Council’s decision to end UN’s peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire in 2017 followed an uncertainty of ONUCI FM’s future before it was decided that the station would continue to broadcast under the Felix Houphouët-Boigny foundation. This research attempts to elucidate the consequences in similar previous cases. This research shows that the UN often lacks a long-term plan of how to handle their stations when their mission ends, thereby creating an indisputable journalistic vacuum where they previously operated. This research shows that few UN radios are capable of surviving without donations but that leaving abruptly may cause harm to the achieved peace. With the intention to provide a solution to the vacuum created after the UN this research explores the possibilities of citizen journalists filling the void after the organization’s withdrawal. This research argues that Citizen Journalism is a suitable substitute to Peace Journalism when UN radio stations stop broadcasting. Applied theories are Peace Journalism, Journalism ethics and Citizen Journalism. All theories are applicable in the analysis of journalists as nation builders, government partners, and agents of empowerment and also as watchdogs. In conclusion, the purpose of this research is to understand the journalist's own experience of working at ONUCI FM and to analyze if a radio station such as ONUCI FM, when no longer supported by the UN, can benefit of Citizen Journalism.
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De, Jager Augustinus Kock. "Die gebruik van klank om nuus op die Internet oor te dra." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53371.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this work I explore the use of sound as a means of
presenting news to the user of the Internet. I accept that
news sound as such, as it is presented on radio, is an
effective mass communication medium. From there I ask the
question if this sound, with the same underlying principles
used in radio, can be effectively used on the Internet.
This opposed to real changes made in the gathering,
preparation and presentation of sound to be effective on
the Information Superhighway.
In the first chapter I look at the methods (good and bad)
utilized to present sound on the radio. When I present a
model for Internet use later in the work (chapter 5) I use
these as a starting point. Some definitions are formulated,
which also become important in chapter 5.
In the second chapter I touch on the origins of the
Internet and the use of web sites to provide a news
service. I explore the methods employed by news specific
sites to communicate information to Internet users and I compare that to uses on a non-news site, in this case
National Geographic.com. Again I use the positive aspects
of the study of these sites to form part of the model
presented in chapter 5.
Chapter 3 is dedicated to the technological development of
the Internet and the use of multimedia to convey
information. I also touch on the future of the information
system and the expectations and requirements these
developments would put on journalists working on the
medium.
In chapter 4 I compare the way in which three news sites
handled the covering of the terrorist attack on America.
Because of the territorial advantage, I choose to look at
the coverage one year after the event. The positive use of
text, video, sound and images on these three sites are used
to format the model in the next chapter.
As said previously, chapter 5 contains a model for the use
of multimedia, specifically sound, to convey news
information on the Internet. While the focus is on sound, I
suggest here that the model is applicable to all the aids
available to the Internet producer.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie werkstuk ontleed ek die gebruik van klank as 'n
werktuig om nuus aan die Internetgebruiker oor te dra. Ek
gaan van die beginsel af uit dat nuusklank op sy eie, met
ander woorde soos dit op die radio uitgesaai word, wel 'n
effektiewe, vinnige metode is om nuus aan massas mense oor
te dra. Die vraag word gevra of klank op dieselfde manier,
met dieselfde grondbeginsels en gebruike, 'n effektiewe
medium is om nuus op die Internet aan te bied. Dié vraag
word in teenstelling geplaas met die moontlikhede dat klank
liefs op die radio hoort en nie deel behoort te wees van
nuuswebtuistes nie, of dat daar wesenlike veranderinge
gemaak behoort te word aan die nuus wat op die radio
aangebied word, voor dit effektief op die Internet gebruik
kan word.
In die eerste hoofstuk kyk ek na die oorsprong en
geskiedenis van radio en daarna na die ontwikkeling van
nuus op radio. Ek behandel die beginsels van radionuus, met
die doelom hierdie kenmerke dan later in die werkstuk
(hoofstuk 5) te gebruik as die grondbeginsels vir 'n model
vir die gebruik van klank om nuus op die Internet oor te
dra.
Ek kyk na die goeie en slegte praktyke wat in die oordrag
van nuus op radio ontstaan het en probeer hierdeur sif om
nie dieselfde swakplekke by die bogenoemde model in te
sluit nie. In hierdie hoofstuk formuleer ek dan definisies
vir die verskillende gebruike van klank om nuus oor die
radio oor te dra. Hierdie definisies word ook later gebruik
in die model vir die effektiewe gebruike van nuusklank op
die Internet.
In die tweede hoofstuk kyk ek na die oorsprong van die
Internet, en dan (in meer detail) na die ontstaan van
nuuswebtuistes. Ek ontleed die manier waarop inligting aan
Internetgebruikers oorgedra word, op webtuistes wat
spesifiek vir nuus geskep is, maar ek vergelyk dit ook met
'n webtuiste wat na my mening die Internet se kenmerke
behoorlik aanwend om inligting oor te dra, nl.
NationaIGeographic.com.
Die goeie en slegte punte van die oordrag van inligting op
die medium word ontleed, om ook later deel te vorm van die
model in hoofstuk 5.
Ek kyk in die derde hoofstuk na die tegnologiese
ontwikkeling van die Internet en die gebruik van multimedia
op die netwerk. Daar word ook geraak aan die toekomsmoontlikhede van die oordrag van groot hoeveelhede
data (soos klank en video) op die netwerk.
Soos die tegnologie ontwikkel, moet die persoon wat die
produk daarstelontwikkel, en ek kyk na die vereistes wat
aan joernaliste/vervaardigers van Internetnuus gestel word.
In die vierde hoofstuk vergelyk ek die Internetaanbiedings
van 'n spesifieke nuusgebeurtenis, die aanval op Amerika op
11 September 2001, van drie nuuswebtuistes. Ek kyk na die
aanbiedings van die BBC, CNN en die SAUK, spesifiek na die
gebruik van teks, grafika, video en klank om nuus aan
Internetgebruikers oor te dra. Die (goeie en minder goeie)
gebruik van klank op dié drie webtuistes vorm dan die basis
van die model wat ek in hoofstuk 5 aanbied.
Die vyfde hoofstuk word gewyaan die daarstelling van 'n
model om klank as nuusmedium op die Internet te gebruik. Ek
kyk na die beginsels van die goeie gebruik van klank wat in
die eerste hoofstuk daargestel is en probeer dit verwerk
vir gebruik op die Internet.
Hoewel ek nie spesifiek die gebruik van ander media, soos
teks, video en grafika, behandel nie, doen ek in hoofstuk 5
voor dat die model vir al die hulpmiddels op die
Internetnuuswebtuiste kan geld.
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Stoneman, Timothy H. B. ""Capturing believers American international radio, religion, and reception, 1931-1975" /." Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006, 2006. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-11282005-173744/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.<br>Dr. Susan Smulyan, Committee Member ; Dr. John Tone, Committee Member ; Dr. Larry Foster, Committee Member ; Dr. Steve Usselman, Committee Member ; Dr. John Krige, Committee Chair.
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Hogarth, David 1959. "Shortwave news work : a case study of Radio Canada International's Hong Kong "Journal"." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59389.
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The Radio Canada International news and current affairs program "Canadian Journal" is used as a case study to develop an adequate theory of news work. A theory of news structuration is proposed which seeks to overcome the dichotomy between agency and structure in news sociology. News is conceived as a social production which constitutes, and is constituted by, its institutional conditions.
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Dunn, Anne, and n/a. "Manufacturing audiences?: policy and practice in ABC radio news 1983-1993." University of Canberra. Professional Communicaton, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20051123.132051.
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This thesis sheds light on the ways in which audiences are made through the relationships between organisational policy and news production practice. It explores the relationships between news practitioners� perceptions and definitions of audiences, production, and organisational policies, using the radio news service of the Australian national public broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). In so doing, the thesis demonstrates that production, in its institutional context, is a crucial site for the creation of audiences in the study of news journalism. In the process, it illuminates the role of public service broadcasting, in a world of digital media The conceptual framework utilises a new approach to framing analysis. Framing has been used to examine the news "agenda" and to identify the salient aspects of news events. This thesis demonstrates ways in which framing can be used to research important processes in news production at different levels, from policy level to that of professional culture, and generate insights to the relationship between them. The accumulated evidence of the bulletin analysis - using structural and rhetorical frames of news - field observation and interviews, shows that a specific and coherent audience can be constructed as a result of newsroom work practices in combination with organisational policies. The thesis has increased knowledge and understanding both of how news workers create images of their audiences and what the institutional factors are that influence the manufacture of audiences as they appear in the text of news bulletins.
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Schreiber, Constantin F. "The construction of partisanship and identity in German soccer sportscasts." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/713.
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Perry, Tricia L. "The Smaller Picture: Warren P. Williamson Jr. and the Age of Broadcasting in Youngstown, Ohio, from Wireless Radio to Television." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1219238940.
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Ellis, Hugh. "Conceptualisations of 'the community' and 'community knowledge' among community radio volunteers in Katutura, Namibia." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002882.
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Community radio typically relies on volunteers to produce and present stations’ programming. Volunteers are generally drawn from stations’ target communities and are seen as “representatives” of those communities. It is with such volunteers and their role as representatives of stations’ target communities that this study is concerned. It poses the question: “what are the central concepts that typically inform volunteers’ knowledge of their target community, and how do these concepts impact on their perception of how they have gained this knowledge, and how they justify their role as representatives of this community?” The dissertation teases out the implications of these conceptualisations for a volunteer team’s ability to contribute to the establishment of a media environment that operates as a Habermasian ‘critical public sphere’. It argues that this can only be achieved if volunteers have detailed and in-depth knowledge of their target community. In order to acquire this knowledge, volunteers should make use of systematic ways of learning about the community, rather than relying solely on knowledge obtained by living there. In a case study of Katutura Community Radio (KCR), one of the bestknown community radio stations in Namibia, the study identifies key differences in the way in which different groups of volunteers conceptualise “the community”. The study focuses, in particular, on such difference as it applies to those who are volunteers in their personal capacity and those who represent non-governmental and community-based organisations at the station. It is argued that two strategies would lead to significant improvement in such a station’s ability to serve as a public sphere. Firstly, the station would benefit from an approach in which different sections of the volunteer team share knowledge of the target community with each other. Secondly, volunteers should undertake further systematic research into their target community. It is also argued that in order to facilitate such processes, radio stations such as KCR should recognise the inevitability of differences between different versions of “community knowledge”.
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Mati, Shepherd A. "Brick walls or brick columns? : management responses to the challenge of sustainability in community radio with special reference to Bush Radio and Radio Zibonele." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52153.
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Thesis (MPhil) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Community radio stations in South Africa are faced with a huge challenge to become
sustainable in the process of serving their communities. The issue of sustainability itself
is complex and shaped by a range of conditionalities. These include community
participation, funding, regulatory and licencing factors, staff and management expertise,
and the strategic planning and management capacity of a station. Often the communities
themselves are materially poor and unable to contribute in monetary terms to the radio
station. However, these same communities are also a source of wealth when it comes to
experience, ideas, human power and time. A major challenge is for station management
to develop organisational strategies that facilitate full utilisation of this community
resource in the process of sustaining their stations.
The focus of this study is on two stations in the Western Cape - Bush Radio and Radio
Zibonele - and how their management is responding to the challenge of sustainability.
Bush Radio has evolved a diversification strategy based on providing formal training
and development as an income-generator, and Radio Zibonele has responded through a
strategy of selling airtime to advertisers. This work describes these sustainability
strategies and explores whether they constitute 'building a brick column or a brick wall'.
The conclusion suggests that while both radio stations demonstrate varying degrees of
community participation, clear internal systems of monitoring and control of resources,
they differ in some fundamental respects of strategy. Bush Radio, on the one hand,
shows a clear commitment to consciously diversifying income sources in a way that
does not leave the station highly dependent on any single source. This, the writer
submits, constitutes an attempt at building a "brick wall". Radio Zibonele, on the other
hand, shows a clear commitment to consolidation and reliance on advertising revenue
as a single source of income for the station. To the extent that this station relies on a
single source of income and does not demonstrate any strategic objective of diversifying
sources, the writer submits, it is building a "brick column".
The basic assumption of this study is that while the challenge of sustainability constitutes
an objective reality facing community radio stations in South Africa today, the subjective
responses developed by station management to deal with this challenge can and often
do make a difference.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Gemeenskapsradiostasies in Suid-Afrika staan voor 'n groot uitdaging om volhoubaar te
ontwikkel. Volhoubaarheid as sulks is kompleks en word deur 'n verskeidenheid faktore
beinvloed. Dit sluit in gemeenskapsdeelname, befondsing, regulerings- en
lisensierinqsfaktore, personeel- en bestuursvernuf en die strategiese beplanning en
bestuurskapasiteit van die stasie. Meestal is die gemeenskappe self arm en nie daartoe
in staat om in rnonetere terme 'n bydrae tot die stasie te lewer nie. Dieselfde
gemeenskappe is egter ook 'n bron van rykdom in terme van ondervinding, idees,
mannekrag en tyd. Een van 'n stasiebestuur se grootste uitdagings is om
organisatoriese strateqiee te ontwikkel wat die volle gebruik van die
gemeenskapshulpbron sal fasiliteer in die proses om hul stasies volhoubaar te
ontwikkel.
Die fokus van die studie val op twee stasies in die Wes-Kaap - Bush Radio en Radio
Zibonele - en hoe hul bestuur op die uitdaging van volhoubare ontwikkeling reageer.
Bush Radio het 'n diversifiseringstrategie ontwikkel wat op formele onderig en
ontwikkeling as 'n inkomstegenereerder gebaseer is. Radio Zibonele, daarenteen,
konsentreer op adverteerders. Die werk beskryf die volhoubaarheidstrategiee elk van die
radiostasies. Die gevolgtrekking word gemaak dat albei radiostasies wei verskillende
grade van gemeenskapsbetrokkenheid, duidelike interne monitorsisteme en beheer van
hulpbronne het. Tog verskil hulle ten opsigte van sekere fundamentele strategiee. Aan
die een kant het Bush Radio 'n duidelike verbintenis tot 'n bewustelike diversifisering van
inkomste op so 'n manier dat die stasie nie afhanklik is van een bron van inkomste nie.
Die skrywer vergelyk dit met die bou van 'n "baksteenmuur". Radio Zibonele, aan die
ander kant, is verbind tot advertensies as die enigste bron van inkomste. Aangesien die
stasie op 'n enkele bron van inkomste vertrou en nie enige strategiese doelwitle vir die
diversifisering van hulpbronne het nie, vergelyk die skrywer dit met die bou van 'n
"baksteenpilaar" .
Die basiese veronderstelling van die studie is dat die reaksie van die stasiebestuur In
deurslaggerwende verskil kan maak om die uitdaging van volhoubare ontwikkeling Suid-
Afrikaanse radiostasies die hoof te bied.
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Eckert, Kristin D. "Use of the Internet for International News: A Comparative Content Analysis of the Television Evening Newscasts and Web Videos of the U.S. Stations PBS and NBC and the German Stations ARD and RTL." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1251323201.
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Kafaar, Al-Ameen. "The efficacy of participatory communication training in farming communities : the case of Valley FM in the Cape Winelands District Region." Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86361.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Global economic conditions are forcing donor and development agencies to reduce
aid to developing countries and communities. This reduction is resulting in less
developmental programmes for disadvantaged communities. To ensure that
developmental programmes are implemented successfully and cost effectively,
implementing agents will have to ensure that they improve their developmental
communication. It is also becoming important that those who are to benefit from
developmental programmes convey or identify exactly what their needs are.
There should be very little speculation from development agencies about what the
needs of the disadvantaged are. It is becoming necessary to review current
developmental tools, methods and systems, and also to explore what other
measures can be applied to ensure that speculation or time and money wasting
exercises are eliminated. This study attempts to look at two things that will influence
effective development communication. The first is to examine if community radio is
still as an efficient developmental communication tool as perhaps two decades ago.
Secondly, it looks at the possibility to tailor-make information for those who need
develop, especially in the context of evolving technology.
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Conrad, David B. "Lost in the Shadows of the Radio Tower: A Return to the Roots of Community Radio Ownership in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1307383699.
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Davidson, Brett Russell. "Mapping the Radio KC community : a case study assessing the impact of participatory research methods in assisting community radio producers to identify programming content." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003716.
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This thesis deals with the introduction of participatory research methods to programming staff working at Radio KC, a South African community radio station based in Paarl, in the Western Cape province. The focus is on a series of workshops conducted at the station, dealing with research tools developed to enable station workers to undertake research of their community. The aim was to determine, by means ofa case study, whether the introduction of participatory research methods could improve the ability of community broadcasters to facilitate democratic participation among the communities in which they operate. More particularly, the thesis assesses whether the application of such methods has improved the ability of the programming staff that were involved in this case study to identify a wider range of stories and voices within their target community, for inclusion in programming content. The participatory research techniques that are applied at the radio station are based on ideas in 'civic mapping' developed by Harwood and McCrehan (1996) under the auspices of The Pew Center for Civic Journalism, and supplemented by insights from Friedland (2001) and Downs and Stea (1977) about the cognitive, normative and imagined dimensions of community. All of the ideas and techniques were adapted for the South African situation. The findings of the research project illustrate that for community stations, the key concepts of 'community' and 'participation' are highly complex ones and that stations need assistance to apply these concepts in their everyday practice. The account of the intervention at Radio KC shows that the process did indeed assist the individual research participants to better deal with the application of these concepts. It did not, however, make much impact on the station as a whole. Reasons for this are believed to lie in the organisational dynamics of the station, and the fact that the model as applied in this case did not provide a means for tackling the agendas, investments and power relations that define the activities of individuals at a given community radio station - what Hochheimer (1993) talks about as the entrenchment of power and personalities. In order to address these shortcomings, an attempt is made to develop a model for future application, which places the mapping process within the context of a broader strategic planning process, focussed on a station's programming schedule.
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Bissonnette, Stéphanie. "Comparaison du registre de lecteurs de bulletins de nouvelles québécois et français /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2000. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Fernandes, Vivian de Oliveira Neves. "A América Latina na mídia alternativa: a produção de notícias na radioagência NP e na Agência Pulsar Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27153/tde-13112014-114022/.
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Esta dissertação é um estudo sobre as notícias da América Latina produzidas na mídia alternativa, com foco no radiojornalismo. Com isso, busca-se contribuir na construção conceitual do atual jornalismo alternativo latino-americano. Pretende-se compreender o caráter contra-hegemônico desse jornalismo quanto à sua forma e seu conteúdo, inseridos em suas práticas produtivas. O rádio alternativo, em seu atual momento histórico, com ampla utilização da internet e em meio à convergência midiática, é a concretude empírica que contribui para a compreensão do fenômeno pesquisado. O objeto de estudo se refere ao jornalismo realizado sobre temas da América Latina na mídia alternativa, com recorte em duas agências de notícias para rádio: a Radioagência NP e a Agência Pulsar Brasil. Além disso, é ponto de discussão da dissertação a concepção de América Latina e sua relação com projetos comunicacionais de organizações políticas e movimentos sociais.<br>This dissertation is a study on news about Latin America produced by alternative media, focusing on radio journalism. Therewith, it seeks to contribute with the conceptual construction of current Latin American alternative journalism. It intends to comprehend the counter-hegemonic aspect of this journalism regarding its form and content, inserted in its productive practices. Alternative radio, in its current historical moment, with ample internet use and amid media convergence, is the empirical concreteness that contributes for this study\'s comprehension on the researched phenomenon. The object of study refers to journalism made over Latin American themes in alternative media, particularly in two news agencies for radio: Radioagência NP and Agência Pulsar Brasil. Furthermore, this dissertation discusses the concept of Latin America and its relations with communication projects from political organizations and social movements.
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Venter, Sahm. "The safety of journalists an assessment of perceptions of the origins and implementation of policy at two international television news agencies /." Thesis, Connect to this title online, 2005. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/213/.
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Heinderyckx, François. "Nations et médias d'information: études de contenus et de publics de médias d'information dans leur articulation avec l'espace national et examen de l'approche transnationale." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212494.
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Tsarwe, Stanley Zvinaiye. ""Too tired to speak?": investigating the reception of Radio Grahamstown's Lunchtime Live show as a means of linking local communities to power." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002943.
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This study sets out to investigate Lunchtime Live, a twice-weekly, one-hour long current affairs show broadcast on a small community radio station, Radio Grahamstown, to understand its role in the local public sphere, and its value in helping civil society’s understanding of and involvement in the power structures and political activities in Grahamstown. Lunchtime Live seeks to cultivate a collective identity and promote public participation in the public affairs of Grahamstown. As a key avenue of investigation, this study seeks to test theory against practice, by evaluating Lunchtime Live’s aspirations against the audiences’ perception of it. This investigation uses qualitative content analysis of selected episodes of recorded transcripts of the shows that aired between August 2010 and March 2011, together with the audiences’ verbalised experiences of this programme through focus group discussions. The study principally uses qualitative research informed by reception theory. The research reveals three key findings. First, that resonance rather than resistance is the more dominant ‘stance’ or ‘attitude’ towards the content of Lunchtime Live. Residents interviewed agreed that the programme is able to give a “realistic” representation of their worldview, and thus is able to articulate issues that affect their lives. Second, that whilst the programme is helping establish links between members of the civil society as well as between civil society and their political representatives, residents feel that local democracy is failing to bring qualitative improvements to their everyday lives and that more ‘participation’ is unlikely to change this. Most respondents blame this on a lack of political will, incompetence, corruption and populist rhetoric by politicians who fail to deliver on the mantra of ‘a better life for all’ in the socioeconomic sphere. The study finds a scepticism and even cynicism that participatory media seems to be able to do little to dilute. Thirdly, in spite of the largely positive view about Lunchtime Live’s capacity to be a platform for public engagement, its participatory potential is structurally constrained by the material privations of most of its listeners. Given that in order to participate in talk shows and discussions audience members have to phone in, economic deprivation often precludes this. It is clear from this research that despite shows such as Lunchtime Live that are exploring new techniques of popular involvement, the voice of the ordinary people still struggles to be heard.
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Bissonnette, Stéphanie. "Comparaison du registre de lecteurs de bulletins de nouvelles québécois et français." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53925.pdf.
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Hansson, Clare. "Marian McPartland, jazz pianist : an overview of a musical career." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16621/.
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This, the first study at doctoral level of any white female jazz instrumentalist, provides an overview to the long, active and enduring musical career of British-born, New York-based jazz pianist, Marian McPartland (born 1918). For over six decades, besides being a pianist and a composer, she has been prominent in the professional roles of educator, writer, record producer and recording artist, radio broadcaster and advocate. The scope and impact of this multi-layered career are conveyed through the medium of a Website profiling significant aspects of her professional life through textual, aural and visual presentation. Although not claiming to be exhaustive, this Website brings together a comprehensive collection of data covering all aspects of Marian McPartland's career. Data have been gathered and collated from material in the public domain, and all such sources are acknowledged and referenced. The Website is navigable through three links at the bottom of the Home Page - 1) Historical Perspective; 2) Selected Analyses; and 3) Marian McPartland In Context. Part One of the Website provides access to Marian McPartland's various professional roles in jazz, as well as public profiles, and is consolidated by listings of support material. Part Two of the Website contains formal analyses of four of her compositions, each preceded by a short introduction. The analyses are based on scores transcribed from her recorded improvisations. A discussion of her stylistic approach follows the analyses. Part Three of the Website contextualizes Marian McPartland as a woman in jazz during its major historical and stylistic movements. An Introduction and a Conclusion provide the academic framework for this study. The Introduction outlines the rationale for the study, the dimensions of the study, the methodologies used, and the research process. The Conclusion provides critical commentary on Marian McPartland's musical career, and deductions are made about her significance in and contribution to jazz, based on the evidence presented in the Website. A CD of the entire Website completes the presentation of this thesis, included under Supplementary Material in the back pocket of the thesis. This overview of Marian McPartland's entire career makes an original contribution to knowledge on this jazz artist, and, in a broader sense, provides an important resource for future research in the area of jazz music and musicians.
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Bentley, Joshua Mark. "Contemporary Christian radio web sites a uses and gratifications study /." 2010. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/Bentley_okstate_0664M_10794.pdf.
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McGovern, Michael Thomas. "Phonetic aspects of CBC Radio Newsreading, 1937-1987." Thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3090.
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This paper is a phonetic investigation of radio newsreading on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) from 1937 to 1987. Recorded newscasts from the first, third, and fifth decades of CBC history are examined. Brief histories of CBC Radio news and of the Office of Broadcast Language are included, and the bibliography brings together much scattered reference material on CBC language. Traditional auditory evaluations of selected aspects of voice quality settings, vowel quality, and voice dynamics are supplemented by instrumental measurements.
The descriptive terminology of Laver (1980) is applied to identify the voice quality settings. The majority of newsreaders examined display the vocal settings of lowered larynx, open jaw, and the use of creaky phonation. This configuration enhances vocal resonance and is shown to be an established newsreading model, perceived as suitable to the authoritative presentation of information. The patterns of vocal settings identified for three test decades (1937-47, 1957-67, 1977-87) are supported by the results of acoustic analyses.
Individual, group, and across-group statistical tests were executed on the results of acoustical waveform analyses of the peripheral vowels k n u/ produced by each newsreader. To test vowel quality as a sociolinguistic variable, the CBC formant data were compared with compatible /ae o u/ data from informants of the Survey of Vancouver English (Gregg, 1984). The results show that the speech of CBC Radio newsreaders cannot be associated with any particular SES class of the Vancouver Survey. As a result of the extensive variation in production found for both informant groups, the high back vowel phoneme /u/ remains ill-defined for Canadian English.
The voice dynamic component in CBC Radio newscasts has changed over the years. Measurements of speech rate show that the duration of pauses post-1966 are dramatically shorter than those pre-1966. Sentence length is shown not to have changed considerably, but phrases have been lengthened and pauses shortened. A marked reduction in the percentage of silent time within the newscast has been the result. It is suggested that pitch fluctuations are now used more extensively than pausing to structure the text orally. Despite the changes in continuity, the articulation rate of the newsreaders, measured in syllables per second, has remained constant. These results indicate that the newsreaders are exceptionally skilled speakers.
The prevalent voice settings and the averaged acoustic measurements for CBC vowels are presented as representative of a readily identifiable and publicly recognized standard of formal spoken Canadian English.
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Halper, Donna Lee. "Neil Postman's Missing Critique: A Media Ecology Analysis of Early Radio 1920-1935." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3465005.
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Radio's first fifteen years were filled with experiment and innovation, as well as conflicting visions of what broadcasting's role in society ought to be. But while there was an ongoing debate about radio's mission (should it be mainly educational or mainly entertaining?), radio's impact on daily life was undeniable. To cite a few examples, radio was the first mass medium to provide access to current events as they were happening. It allowed people of all races and social classes to hear great orators, news-makers, and entertainers. Radio not only brought hit songs and famous singers directly into the listener's home; it also created a new form of intimacy based on imagination—although the listeners generally had never met the men and women they heard on the air, they felt close to these people and imagined what they must really be like. Radio was a medium that enhanced the importance of the human voice-- politicians, preachers, and performers were now judged by their ability to communicate with the "invisible audience." My dissertation employs a media ecology perspective to examine how the arrival and growth of radio altered a media environment that, until 1920, was dominated by the printed word. Neil Postman, a seminal figure in Media Ecology, wrote that this field of inquiry "looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value." Radio certainly exemplified that description: it not only affected popular culture and public opinion; it affected the other media with which it competed. My research utilizes one of those competing media—print journalism. Using content and discourse analysis of articles in thirty-three newspapers and sixteen magazines of the 1920s and early 1930s, I examine how print and radio interacted and affected each other. My dissertation also analyzes the differing perceptions about radio as expressed in print by fans, reporters, and such interest groups as clergy or educators. And finally, my research explores some of the critiques of the programs, and compares the reactions of the critics at the mainstream press with those who worked for the ethnic press.
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Beran, Rudolf. "Současné postavení ČRo3 - Vltava v české mediální krajině." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-310570.
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Anglický abstrakt k diplomové práci Současné postavení ČRo 3 - Vltava v české mediální krajině Present position of CRo 3 in the Czech media landscape Autor: Rudolf Beran 2012 Abstract This thesis focuses on history of the cultural-artistic radio broadcast in the Czech Republic, its starting points and the subsequent changes that have gradually led to the current profiled form of CRo 3 - Vltava. The CRo 3 - Vltava radio station is presented here as a cultural institution coexisting in the framework of public radios of the other European countries. A special attention is paid, among others, to the Vltava's specifics, aspects of the obvious peculiarity this radio station has within the Czech media landscape. Neither can I omit the radio's cultural function of "culture-creativeness", role in the climate of the current society, factual non-substitutability or privileges of the demanding audience. In the individual sections I present, one by one, the key authors and creators who have taken a crucial part in shaping the CRo 3 - Vltava radio station. The thesis is based on a historical-critical analysis and a form analysis.
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Radovic, Ivanka. "Radio-Television of Serbia (1989-2009): The Changing Role of State TV in a Post-communist Country." 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/743.
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This study examined the differences in reporting in Radio-Television of Serbia's (RTS) main newscast, Dnevnik 2, between the period of Slobodan Milosevic’s rule (1989-2000) and the period after the establishment of democracy in Serbia (2001-2009). The data were gathered by the content analysis of 63 RTS newscasts in the period 1989-2009. The research included quantitative analysis as well as additional observations of RTS newscasts noted at the time of coding. The major findings suggest that in the democratic period (2001-2009) RTS newscasts become shorter, more consistent in duration, less dedicated to coverage of state and ruling party officials’ activities, and more inclined to reporting about social issues and other political events. The number of voices in RTS newscasts became significantly higher. The overall reporting became more balanced and more diverse. At the same time RTS kept the old priority in news reporting which put Official Stories in leading positions and remained occasionally inclined to increase the number of Official Stories in times of important political events. Based on these results this study derived the following hypotheses for state/public service television stations in countries in transition: 1) consistency of duration of newscasts increases as the regime in the country becomes less controlling 2) the dominance of Official Stories decreases as the regime in the country becomes less controlling 3) the number of sound bites in newscasts increases as the regime becomes less controlling (the number of voices in newscasts increases as the democracy progresses), and 4) the coverage of Official Stories increases in times of important domestic political events, possibly those that have endangered national security, even if the regime becomes less controlling.
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Tomek, Prokop. "Československá redakce Radio Free Europe: historie a vliv na československé dějiny." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-326941.
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The disertation is focused on development and importance of the Czechoslovak desk of the Radio Free Europe in period between 1950 and 1994. This broadcasting have gained in time of strong censorship significant and till now unresearched importance. In February 1948 the Communist party took power in the Czechoslovakia. After that Czech and Slovak democratic politicians had left country to the West. They wanted to break the isolation of people living behind the Iron Curtain and promote restoration of democracy in their homeland. In 1949 was in the USA established the National Committee for Free Europe as fomally independent citizens association. As its most known activity had became the Radio Free Europe (RFE). This radio station had became an important tool for political strugle between two blocks in time of the Cold War. The basic qestion is what real position RFE broadcasting have reached in this struggle. The estabilishing of foreign broadcasting to the Czechoslovakia was very difficult task. RFE started its activity as exiles platform for purpose of liberation the Czechoslovakia from rule of the Communistic Party regime. The programming position of the RFE was in reality influented by american politicians and was depending on changing global political conditions as well. The unique position of...
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Mráz, Jan. "Sociální odpovědnost médií na příkladu Edwarda R. Murrowa." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-299523.
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The master's thesis "The Social Responsibility of Media in the Example of Edward R.Murrow" describes the development of social responsibility of media in the American radio and television broadcasting in the 20's - 50's of the 19th century and it demonstrates that in the examples of a CBS's reporter and anchorman, Edward R. Murrow. The thesis inquires the historical context in which the responsibilities of broadcasters came about describing the key events, regulatory authorities and the inception of the socially responsible media concept and its development trends. Firstly, the text focuses on the development of radio broadcasting, new demand for some level of control, and on the gaining dominance of commercial broadcasting media on the broadcasting market of the late 30's. Furthermore, the thesis analyzes the origins of television broadcasting of the late 40's and its progress in the 50's. The instances of social responsibility are demonstrated in the examples of Murrow's London radio broadcasts during the WWII and his latter TV show 'See It Now' in the McCarthyism era of the early 50's. Moreover, the thesis scrutinizes some of Murrow's TV and radio shows and looks at his activities in CBS from the late 30's up to his retirement in the early 60's.
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Mashau, Pfunzo Lawrence. "An exploration of the implementation of language policies for community radio stations in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/1443.
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MA (Linguistics)<br>Department of Communication and Applied Languages Studies<br>The question of the use of languages in radio broadcasting is of particular importance in
multilingual communities in Vhembe district of Limpopo province. The Independent
Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) issues broadcasting licenses, and
further regulates conditions of implementation of these licenses. The purpose of this study
is to explore the extent to which community radio stations in Vhembe district adhere to
ICASA language policies and guidelines stipulated in their licenses. Literature was drawn
from government language policy documents (Acts, rules and regulations), broadcasting
legislative framework manuals (ICASA), government gazettes, books, journals,
magazines, and newspapers. The design for the study is exploratory, whereas the target
population comprised of seven (7) community radio stations, fifteen (15) radio
programmes, and station managers of community radio stations in the Vhembe district.
Purposive sampling was used to select three community radio stations, three
programmes per station and station manager of each sampled station. Non-participant
observation, documents analysis and tape recorder were used as instruments for data
collection, whereby the researcher observed, recorded a total of (nine) 9 talk format
programmes. The researcher further analysed documents (broadcasting licenses and
programme schedules), from sampled radio stations, to examine stipulated language
quotas by ICASA. Lastly, the researcher employed unstructured interviews to collect data
from the station managers of community radio stations, in the Vhembe district. The
sampled data was analysed through qualitative content analysis and interpreted
subsequently. Findings from data analysis determined that community radio stations
partially adhere to the policies stipulated in their licenses.<br>NRF
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Rodrigues, Joana Maria Lima Oliveira. "Capital Europeia da Cultura 2012: o lugar da cultura na rádio pública." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/34299.
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Relatório de estágio de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação (área de especialização em Informação e Jornalismo)<br>“Capital Europeia da Cultura 2012 – O lugar da cultura na rádio pública” resulta, antes de mais,
de uma experiência de estágio curricular no departamento de informação da rádio pública
portuguesa, em Vila Nova de Gaia. Esta experiência decorreu de 17 de setembro a 14 de
dezembro de 2012. Com base no relato exposto, parte-se para uma reflexão sustentada – mas
também com apontamentos mais críticos, sempre que oportuno – no período em que esta rádio
esteve especialmente dedicada à cobertura da Capital Europeia da Cultura 2012 (CEC 2012).
Posto isto, este relatório pretende refletir sobre o tipo de cobertura jornalística que a Antena 1 fez
de uma área especializada como é a cultura – à luz da CEC 2012 – e de que modo isto se
coaduna com o que está estabelecido no serviço público de radiodifusão. No fundo, trata-se de
perceber o que esteve na base do investimento na CEC 2012; se a ideia de serviço público
esteve ou não subjacente; se, havendo no grupo RDP uma estação mais vocacionada para as
questões de cultura – como é o caso da Antena 2 –, a cultura se impõe do ponto de vista da
informação generalista; e ainda o porquê da criação de uma rubrica diária, «Guimarães num
Instante», emitida em três momentos do dia.<br>“European Capital of Culture 2012 – The place of culture in public radio” derives, first of all,
from a traineeship experience in the Portuguese public radio information department, in Vila
Nova de Gaia. This experiment took place from September 17 to December 14, 2012. Based on
the above, a sustained reflection is addressed – but also with more critical notes whenever is
needed – during the period in which this radio was especially dedicated to the coverage of the
European Capital of Culture 2012 (CEC 2012).
Thus, this report is intended to reflect on the kind of coverage that Antena 1 made of a
specialized area such as culture – in light of the CEC 2012 – and how this fits with what is
established in the public service broadcasting. At bottom, it's about realizing what was the basis
of the investment in CEC 2012; if the idea of public service was or not presented; if, in the group
RDP having a more addressed station for cultural issues – as is the case of Antena 2 –, the
culture is demanded for a more general information standpoint; and also why the creation of a
daily program, «Guimarães num Instante», issued at three times of day.