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Lundsten, Sanna. "Gender and Newsroom Practices : Female reporters’ views on gender segregation in the newsroom." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194117.
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Although Sweden is often presented as a pioneer nation when it comes to gender equality, research shows that the field of journalism in Sweden has been, and still is, structured by hierarchies and segregation based on gender. This thesis expands understanding of gender segregation in the newsroom through in-depth interviews with female reporters, ranging in age, area of reporting, and seniority, at Swedish Radio’s nationwide news desk Ekot. The theoretical frame departs from the feminist school and adopts a gendered media field approach. Further, the thesis focuses on five factors that often lead to patterns of gender segregation: the soft-hard news binary, the process of story allocation, the newsroom environment, the increase of women in the newsroom, and gender discussions in the newsroom. The findings suggest that although some factors seem to be less powerful in creating segregation based on gender, traces of a male-ordered newsroom persist. Despite a perceived majority of women in the newsroom, a certain male logic is, in some ways, internalized, which leads to a relative, but persistent, segregation along gender lines. Finally, the author emphasizes the need for an active and conscientious interest in addressing gender disparities in order to move forward towards a gender-equal society.
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Van, Velden D. P. "Responsibility of media coverage and media attitudes towards science and technology /." Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/921.
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Van, Velden David Pieter. "Responsibility of media coverage and media attitudes towards science and technology." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3379.
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Thesis (MPhil (Journalism)--University of Stellenbosch, 2008.<br>The media have a great responsibility to communicate more science to improve public understanding of science to help them make sense of their world. The aim should be to popularize scientific ideas and to create a better understanding of how science is daily altering lifestyles and culture. Scientific literacy is an important element of an all-round educated person, and the media need to fill whatever blanks have been left by his or her formal education. The function of the scientific journalist is to transform scientific ideas and results into a form that other groups can understand. This transformation is as much an intra-scientific as well as an extra-scientific matter, and the forms that such communication take and the consequences for intellectual development vary according to the sort of field involved, the audience addressed and the relationship between them. This transformation process must not affect the truth status of scientific knowledge, but it obviously changes the form in which this knowledge is expressed. Scientists need to unveil the secrets of nature, and need to explain to the public that science is always incomplete and incremental, that knowledge is imperfect. Communicating with the media is becoming an obligation, and popularizing of science is becoming an integral part of the professional responsibility of practicing scientists. This overview indicates that there is a need for scientists to increase their communication skills and activities across a broad field and for journalists to increase their understanding and training in science.
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Frost, Carolyn. "Covering the GMO issue : an overview for South African science reporters." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52175.
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Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim and function of this paper is to provide a balanced account of how
the media, international and South African, have dealt with the issue of
genetically modified organisms (GMOs). A selection of interviews,
presentations, articles, transcripts and published reports forms the
background of this interpretation, and offers insight into the history of the
technology, the major role players, the legislation required and
implemented, the question of environmental accountability, and the power
of the media's influence. It addresses aspects of the causal relationship
between the media and public understanding, and the subsequent power
of the consumer as manifested by the perception of risk. The central
theme of genetic engineering conjures up a variety of meanings and
applications, and the plethora of available information is evaluated in an
attempt to develop informed understanding for reporters covering the
many dimensions of this development within the arena of science and
technology.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie verhandeling is om 'n ewewigtige oorsig te verstrek
van hoe die media - Suid-Afrikaans sowel as internasionaal - die kwessie
van geneties gemodifiseerde organismes gehanteer het. 'n Seleksie
onderhoude, aanbiedinge, artikels, transkripsies, en gepubliseerde verslae
vorm die basis van hierdie interpretasie, en verskaf 'n insig in die
geskiedenis van die tegnologie, die belangrike rolspelers, nodige en
géimplementeerde wetgewing, die vraag van omgewingstoerekenbaarheid,
en die mag van die media se invloed. Dit spreek aspekte aan van die
kousale verwantskap tussen die media en begrip deur die algemene
publiek, en die daaropvolgende mag van die verbruiker, soos dit duidelik
word in hulle insig in en begrip van die risiko-faktor. Die sentrale tema
van genetiese modifisering bring te voorskyn 'n verskeidenheid
betekenisse en aanwendings; en 'n oorsig van die massa beskikbare
inligting word hier aangebied in 'n poging om aan verslaggewers ingeligte
begrip aan te bied van die veelsydige omvang van die ontwikkeling van
genetiese modifisering in die gebied van wetenskap en tegnologie.
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Ericsson, Elin, and Emil Svensson. "Kriminaljournalister och Flashback : En intervjustudie om pressetik i ett nytt medium." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-31491.
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The aim of our study was to examine Swedish crime reporters’ approach to the social medium Flashback. Our main focus was the crime reporters’ use of the medium Flashback, and attitude towards their own use of media ethics in relation to the medium Flashback. Flashback as a medium is not obliged to any media ethics and lacks a legally accountable publisher. In the search for information about committed crimes people tends to visit Flashback for the information that the traditional media cannot offer. In that sense Flashback challenges the foundation of media ethics today. That is why we found it interesting to study crime reporters in particular. The study used a qualitative approach and was conducted through interviews with eight crime reporters. We have used theories about media ethics, social media and participatory journalism to explore the development in the area and how journalists have adapted to this change. The result shows that there are journalists who use Flashback as a journalistic tool to find information, to save time and as a mean to keep up-to-date. And moreover, the study gives examples on how an online forum with anonymous sources can be used – like any other source, as long as you are source-critical.
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Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth. "Ethical Decision Making in the Indian Mediascape: Reporters and Their Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc10981/.
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Hundreds of reporters gather and interpret news for four English-language newspapers in India's second-largest urban area Kolkata, West Bengal's state capital, which is home to over 4 million people. Journalists from The Statesman, The Telegraph-Kolkata, The Hindustan Times and The Times of India discuss how they collect their stories in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and many other languages and write them in English targeting a small but emerging middle-class audience. Whether these articles focus on people-centric urban planning, armed vigilantes in community disputes, dowry death cases, or celebrity culture, all of the reporting involves cultural and ethical challenges. Using semi-structured interviewing and qualitative theme analysis, this study explores how gender, class, and religion affect the decision-making practices of 21 journalists working in Kolkata.
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Middleweek, Belinda May. "Dingo media? R v Chamberlain as model for an Australian media event." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5454.
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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Dingo Media examines the development of media events using as a case study one of Australia’s most widely known criminal investigations, the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain at “Ayers Rock”. Considering the case as a blueprint for the way mass media events develop and evolve in the late capitalist era, this thesis suggests that the event marks a turning point in negotiation of the public sphere and Australian national identity. Using an original model, I trace from the 1980s five phases through which news stories pass in their evolution as modern media events by comparing the Chamberlain saga to contemporary cases involving “controversial” women, Schapelle Corby, Joanne Lees and Pauline Hanson. The first phase examines the emerging practice of news workers focusing on personalities rather than events; the second phase analyses both the formation of counter-publics protesting the conviction, and the development of a dialogic connection between media and publics; the third phase investigates the rise of a modern celebrity industry promoting “ordinary” individuals into subjects of media discourse; the fourth phase considers the process of mythic production surrounding the Chamberlain case as related to processes of nation-building in the late 1980s; finally, the fifth phase critiques the prevalent view that, through continual retelling, the event has suffered a loss of meaning. Axiomatic to this study will be the politics of representation, how the media records, organises and mythologises information, as well as the interaction between texts and audiences.
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Slagle, Mark. "Now to war a textual analysis of embedded print reporters in the second Iraq war /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4543.
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Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (June 27, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Ohkura, Yoshiko. "Japanese newspapers: their role and limitations in environmental reporting : case study: the Isahaya Bay land reclamation project issue /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envo37.pdf.
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Moloi-Siga, Kgothatso. "International media portrayals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ : an analysis of British and American print media, 2004-2010." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71922.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>Includes bibliography<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The onset of democracy in South Africa in 1994 was accompanied by the rise in bids for, and the hosting of sports mega-events so as to accomplish national interests and goals. This was done with the purpose of rebranding the South African image to the international community through national and international campaigns that sought to highlight the country’s aspirant status as a rainbow nation and its pan-Africanist ideals.
This study investigates how, as host for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, South Africa was reported on by two international online media newspapers, The New York Times (United States of America (USA)) and the Guardian (United Kingdom (UK)). The aim is to address an understudied aspect of South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ by reflecting systematically on the tone and content of international media portrayals of the event, both before and during the tournament. The study has two focuses. Firstly, it considers the motives for South Africa’s bid to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup™. Secondly, it appraises the content and nature of reporting in the two overseas newspapers. The study uses a mix of secondary and primary sources, which include academic journals, books, websites, newspaper articles and government and the FIFA websites. The findings of this study suggest that the bid to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ was based on the country’s positive experience from hosting previous sports mega-events. Additionally, South Africa wanted to showcase its commercial maturity, its development of physical infrastructure, and the presence of human skills. The motives underpinning the bid aimed at dispelling and challenging international misconceptions of the African continent. The novelty of an African country bidding to stage and hosting a sport mega-event such as the FIFA World Cup™ resulted in the country gaining extensive international media coverage from The New York Times and the Guardian. The qualitative and quantitative content analysis from these two newspapers yielded some commonality and recurrence of words such as: “stadium”, “tickets”, ‘vuvuzela”, “crime”, and “security”. The differences between the two newspapers were minimal, supporting the liberal-pluralist theoretical claim that the media acts as an agenda setter, and in line with the Marxist theory of the ideological role of the media.
Media coverage of sports mega-events is important and influential in determining the way in which the host country is branded, and future studies are necessary to address the<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die koms van demokrasie in Suid-Afrika in 1994 het gepaard gegaan met die toename in tenders en die gasheerskap van megasportgebeure om nasionale belange en doelwitte te bereik. Die doel was die herposisionering van die Suid-Afrikaanse beeld in die internasionale gemeenskap deur middel van nasionale en internasionale veldtogte wat daarna gestreef het om die land se reënboognasiebeeld en sy pan-Afrikanistiese ideale te beklemtoon.
Hierdie studie ondersoek hoe Suid-Afrika, as gasheer vir die 2010 FIFA Wêreldbeker, deur twee internasionale aanlynmediakoerante, The New York Times (Verenigde State van Amerika) en die Guardian (Verenigde Koninkryk) uitgebeeld is. Die doel is om die meer onverkende aspekte van Suid-Afrika se gasheerskap onder oë te neem, en voorts om sistematiese peiling te doen van die toon en inhoud van internasionale media-uitbeeldings van die sport gebeurtenis. Die studie het twee fokuspunte. Eerstens word ondersoek ingestel na die motiewe van Suid-Afrika se bod om die 2010 FIFA Wêreldbeker aan te bied. Tweedens beoordeel dit die inhoud en aard van verslaggewing in die twee oorsese koerante. Die studie gebruik ’n mengsel van sekondêre en primêre bronne, insluitend akademiese tydskrifte, boeke, webwerwe, koerantberigte en die regering en FIFA se webwerwe. Die bevindinge van hierdie studie beklemtoon dat die motiewe van Suid-Afrika se bod om die 2010 FIFA Wêreldbeker aan te bied, gegrond was op die bewese positiewe prestasierekord wat die land as gasheer in vorige megasportgebeure opgebou het. Voorts wou Suid-Afrika sy kommersiële volwassenheid, die ontwikkeling van fisiese infrastruktuur, en die teenwoordigheid van mensvaardighede ten toon te stel. Die motiewe vir die bod was ook daarop gemik om internasionale wanopvattings oor die Afrika-vasteland uit te daag en uit die weg te ruim. Die ongekendheid van die aanbied van ’n megasportgebeurtenis soos die FIFA Wêreldbeker deur ’n Afrikaland, het daartoe gelei dat die land uitgebreide internasionale mediadekking in The New York Times en die Guardian geniet het. Die kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe inhoudontleding het getoon dat daar ’n mate van gemeenskaplikheid en herhaling van woorde was, soos: “stadium”, “tickets”, “vuvuzela”, “crime” en “security”. Die verskille tussen die twee koerante was minimaal en ondersteun liberaal-pluralistiese teorie wat die media as ’n agenda steller uitwys. Dit ondersteun ook Marxistiese teorie oor die ideologiese rol van die media.
Mediadekking van megasportgebeure is belangrik en invloedryk in die bepaling van die manier waarop die gasheerland as handelsmerk voorgestel word, en toekomstige studies is nodig om die onderbestudeerde aspekte van die 2010 FIFA Wêreldbeker ™ te ontleed. Dit sluit onder andere in, ontleding van die langtermyn ekonomiese, politieke en maatskaplike nalatenskappe van so ’n gebeurtenis.
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Roeder, Lee Ann. "A study of Indiana legislators' perceptions of local media coverage, 1995." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1033644.
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The relationship between the media and politicians is uncertain at best. This study examined the attitudes of Indiana state senators and representatives with regard to the way they are treated by their local media. It is based on a study conducted in 1990 by Dr. Daniel Riffe, that sought similar opinions from Alabama state lawmakers.The hypothesis assumed that legislators who indicated they found the media useful would not view them as adversarial. A 39% response rate was achieved, which while not high enough to statistically validate findings did indicate a rejection of the hypothesis, as well as reveal other interesting observations.<br>Department of Journalism
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Botha, Nicolene. "Dispatches from the front : war reporting as news genre, with special reference to news flow." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/916.
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Thesis (MPhil (Journalism))--Stellenbosch University, 2007.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During Gulf War II, the American government implemented new media policies which,
due to their potentially manipulative impact, became a subject of concern to academics,
social commentators and the media alike. Key to these policies was the Department of
Defense's Embedded Media Program which allowed hundreds of selected reporters to
accompany US forces to the war front. The US openly tried to win international support
for the war, and critics felt that this policy was designed to saturate the media with
reports supporting the American point of view. This study examines these policies, the
history of war reporting as a separate news genre, as well as the fluctuating relations
between the US military and the media. Because of the US media policies, the fact that
only one South African newspaper reporter was in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom
phase of the war and South African newspapers' consequent reliance on foreign news
sources, there was a real possibility that the American position would be propagated in
the local press. To test whether this was the case, the way the war was reported on in
four leading South African newspapers is examined in terms of gatekeeping,
agendasetting and framing. Using an adapted version op Propp's fairytale analysis as a
standard, it compares the slant and content of the South African coverage to the way
four senior US government officials presented the war. Also, the coverage of the
newspapers is compared to one another. The analyses indicate that while most of the
information published by the newspapers came from American sources, the news
reports generally did not mirror the US standpoint, but instead criticised President Bush
and the war on Iraq. Neither the frequency of the newspapers, nor its cultural
background showed any correlation with the way the war was depicted by the different
newspapers. It is therefore concluded that while the US might have been successful in
their attempt to "occupy the media territory" in terms of sources cited, they were not
able to sway the opinion of the South African press in their favour. However, the US is
aware of these failures and plans to rectify the mistakes made in Gulf War II by means
of proactive global operations started in times of peace.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Tydens die Tweede Golfoorlog het die Amerikaanse regering 'n nuwe mediabeleid
ingestel wat weens die potensieel manipulerende impak daarvan ’n bron van kommer
vir akademici, sosiale kommentators en die media self geword het. Sentraal tot hierdie
nuwe beleid was die Departement van Verdediging se sogenaamde "Embedded Media
Program" wat honderde uitgesoekte joernaliste toegelaat het om Amerikaanse magte na
die oorlogsfront te vergesel. Die VSA het openlik probeer om internasionale steun vir
die oorlog te werf en kritici het gevoel dat dié beleid ontwerp is om die media met
nuusberigte wat die Amerikaanse standpunt steun, te versadig. Hierdie studie ondersoek
dié beleid, die geskiedenis van oorlogsverslaggewing as afsonderlike nuus-genre, asook
die wisselvallige verhouding tussen die Amerikaanse weermag en die media. Weens die
Amerikaanse mediabeleid, die feit dat slegs een Suid-Afrikaanse koerantverslaggewer
tydens die Operation Iraqi Freedom fase van die oorlog in Irak was en Suid-Afrikaanse
koerante gevolglik van buitelandse nuusbronne afhanklik was, was daar 'n werklike
moontlikheid dat die Amerikaanse posisie deur die plaaslike pers gepropageer kon
word. Om te toets of dit die geval was, is die manier waarop in vier vooraanstaande
Suid-Afrikaanse koerante oor die oorlog berig is, ondersoek in terme van
hekwagterskap, agendastelling en raamskepping. Deur 'n aangepaste weergawe van
Propp se feëverhaalanalise as maatstaf te gebruik, is die neiging en inhoud van die Suid-
Afrikaanse dekking vergelyk met die manier waarop vier senior Amerikaanse
amptenare die oorlog voorgehou het. Die koerante se dekking is ook met mekaar
vergelyk. Die analises wys dat hoewel die meeste van die inligting wat deur die
koerante gepubliseer is van Amerikaanse bronne kom, die nuusberigte oor die algemeen
nie die Amerikaanse standpunt weerspieël nie, maar eerder krities teenoor President
Bush en die oorlog teen Irak is. Nie die frekwensie van die koerante of die kulturele
agtergrond daarvan het enige korrelasie getoon met die manier waarop die oorlog deur
die verskillende koerante uitgebeeld is nie. Die gevolgtrekking word gemaak dat hoewel
die VSA moontlik daarin geslaag het om die "mediaterrein te okkupeer" in terme van
aangehaalde bronne, het hulle nie daarin geslaag om die Suid-Afrikaanse pers se opinie
in hul guns te swaai nie. Die VSA is egter bewus van die foute wat tydens die Tweede
Golfoorlog gemaak is en beplan om dit deur middel van proaktiewe globale operasies
in vredestyd reg te stel.
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Ting, Tin-yuet, and 丁天悦. "The influence of globalization on foreign news: insights from German press coverage of China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45985558.
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Dworznik, Gretchen J. "The Psychology of Local News: Compassion Fatigue and Posttraumatic Stress in Broadcast Reporters, Photographers, and Live Truck Engineers." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1210513135.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Sept. 28, 2009). Advisor: Stan Wearden. Keywords: journalism; trauma; broadcasting; reporting; television; posttraumatic stress; compassion fatigue. Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-184).
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Nsele, Zandile Victoria. "Ukucwaningwa kwama-atikili esiZulu ngemibiko yezindaba ezibuhlungu ezisemaphephandabeni." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/943.
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Trach, Maria S. "A Q-study of the effects of Novy Kanal reporters' gender on their preferences in coverage of gender neutral issues." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1272771.
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It has been established that regardless of the fact that journalism in not a one-gender- profession anymore, news is still defined from a male perspective. A number of studies through the years examined the news content and determined that it continued male.Though news veterans acknowledge significant changes in m coming of women to the newsrooms, those changes sometimes are hard to detect on the personal level. Male and female reporters claim that even though gender can affect their approach to reporting, the final product they produce does not have gender marked on it. The present Q study is examined whether gender has an influence on reporter’s preferences in choosing a topic while covering gender-neutral issues. The participants of the study were 17 employees of the major Ukrainian TV channel "Novy Kanal.” In February of 2003 they were e-mailed 50 story ideas (constructed to include either two of five news values, such as magnitude, conflict, oddity, prominence and impact) and asked them to sort them according to their desire to cover these topics. Fourteen journalists and three editors responded. In May 2003 the sorts were analyzed with the PQMethod program, and three factors emerged representing three groups of people (Maximalists, Conservatives and Commoners) with different attitudes toward gender-neutral issues. The Maximalists, the largest group consisted only of reporters, were a sensation-oriented group of people. Magnitude and conflict were the most important news values for this factor. The Conservatives were characterized by the strong inclination towards official news, where conflict and impact played an important role. The Commoners preferred the human interest stories with oddity and impact.Each group consisted of an even number of men and women, and thus the study failed to support the notion that males and females share different attitudes toward neutral issues. No discrimination was evident toward women stories on the “Navy Kanal” TV channel. Surprisingly, men were more likely than women to choose active participants or acted as newsmakers.The findings suggested that it is women who are creating problems for the feminist movement, not men. Women correspondents at "Novy Kanal" are more immersed in patriarchal values than their male colleagues.<br>Department of Journalism
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Merle, Carol Van Diemel. "Innovative networking : the synergy between the public relations industry and multimedia newspaper." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2307.
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Thesis (MTech (Public Relations Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2011.<br>The purpose of this mini thesis is to investigate the research question, "What is the
importance and effectiveness of public relations practice in obtaining coverage in a
multimedia newspaper?" It is obvious that the introduction of the multimedia
newspaper has affected the role of the public relations practitioner and the role of the
journalists. But has it changed the manner in which public relations practitioners
practice public relations (that is the influence of the multimedia newspaper on the
public relations industry) and its value in the eyes of the multimedia journalist. The study will measure the multimedia editorial staff's opinion and perceptions of the
multimedia newspapers content and public relations practice's impact on that
content. The research is interested in whether the introduction of the multimedia
newspaper has affected the role of the public relations practitioner and the journalists
and whether it has changed the manner in which public relations practitioners
practice public relations (that is the influence of the multimedia newspaper on the
public relations industry). The research reviews the perceived value of public
relations to journalists operating within the multimedia newspaper context.
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Kurvinen, H. (Heidi). "”En mä oo mies enkä nainen. Mä oon toimittaja”:sukupuoli ja suomalainen toimittajakunta 1960- ja 1970-luvulla." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2013. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526201702.
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Abstract The research observes the profession of reporters in the decades when the field underwent several different changes. The development of editorial hierarchy and the transition to a five day working week increased the need for reporters. At the same time, the strenghtening of trade union politics changed the field towards a more professional direction. In terms of gender, the profession became more balanced when the number of female reporters increased. Female reporters entered the field when the demand for new reporters became higher. However, the change was also connected to the overall development in the Finnish society. It was first and foremost women’s opportunities for work that were negotiated in the role debate that was going on during the 1960s. When the debate turned into an official policy that was maintained through legislation, attention was paid to the gendered structures of working life. During the 1970s, women became a part of career world for good. Finnish working life remained segregated but the profession of reporters was one of the fields where both genders had the same duties. However, the profession was not equal in terms of gender. Female reporters were paid less than their male colleagues and they did not have the same opportunities for promotions. What is more, male reporters worked more often as special reporters whereas females remained as all round reporters. In addition, the vocational culture was still based upon masculine values. Within oral history, the gendered structures of the profession were overshadowed by the rhetorics of sameness. In other words, the profession was seen as equal in terms of gender. The explanation can be found in the Finnish gender culture that maintains the idea of gender neutrality of working life. However, the rhetorics also repeated the ideals of equality that prevailed during the 1960s and 1970s. Furthermore, other factors that divided the profession of reporters like age, political background and education also covered up the question of gender. The source material consists of oral history, archival sources and media texts. Sources form different periods of time are read against each other and the experiences of reporters are connected to the discourses of the 1960s and 1970s<br>Tiivistelmä Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan toimittajan ammattia vuosikymmeninä, jolloin ala koki useita erilaisia muutoksia. Toimitushierarkian kehittyminen ja siirtyminen viisipäiväiseen työviikkoon lisäsivät toimittajien tarvetta ja samanaikaisesti ammatillisten etujen ajaminen muutti alaa professionaalimpaan suuntaan. Myös ammattikunnan sukupuolirakenne alkoi tasapainoistua, kun alalle tuli aiempaa enemmän naistoimittajia. Toimittajanaisten määrän kasvu vastasi lisääntyneen toimittajatarpeen aiheuttamaan kysyntään, mutta muutos liittyi myös suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa tapahtuneeseen kehitykseen. 1960-luvun roolikeskustelussa neuvoteltiin ennen kaikkea naisten työssäkäynnin mahdollisuuksista, ja tasa-arvokeskustelun valtiollistuttua päähuomio kiinnittyi työelämän sukupuolittuneisuuteen. Naiset siirtyivätkin 1970-luvulla työelämään jäädäkseen. Suomalainen työelämä säilyi kuitenkin eriytyneenä, ja toimittajan ammatti oli yksi niistä harvoista aloista, joilla naiset ja miehet tekivät samaa työtä. Tämä ei tarkoittanut kuitenkaan sitä, että ala olisi ollut tasa-arvoinen. Toimittajanaisten asema oli miehiä heikompi niin palkkauksessa kuin urakehityksessäkin. Sukupuoli näkyi myös toimitustyössä, jossa erikoistoimittajan tehtävät menivät pääsääntöisesti miehille, kun taas naiset työskentelivät ennen kaikkea uutistoimittajina. Myös ammatillinen kulttuuri rakentui edelleen maskuliinisten piirteiden varaan. Toimittajien muistelupuheessa ammattikunnan epätasa-arvoa tuottaneet käytännöt peittyivät kuitenkin samanlaisuuspuheen alle ja ammatti näyttäytyi tasa-arvoisena. Yhtäältä tämä selittyy suomalaisella sukupuolikulttuurilla, joka ylläpitää ajatusta työelämän sukupuolineutraaliudesta. Toisaalta taustalla on nähtävissä 1960- ja 1970-luvulla vallinnut tasa-arvokäsitys, joka korosti sukupuolten samuutta. Sukupuolta peittivät tutkittavina vuosikymmeninä alleen myös muut toimittajakuntaa erottaneet tekijät, joita olivat ikä, poliittinen tausta ja koulutus. Tutkimuksen lähdeaineisto koostuu muistitiedosta, aikalaisteksteistä ja arkistoaineistoista. Eri aikoina syntyneitä lähteitä luetaan toisiaan vasten, ja toimittajien kokemukset kiinnitetään 1960- ja 1970-luvun ajattelumalleihin
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Ngam, Theophilus Mamnkeli. "Media as agenda setters : a study of the infected and affected living with HIV/Aids." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20884.
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Assignment (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The media, in its ongoing task to inform and educate South Africans, seemingly set the agenda in such a way that depicts poor black African people as the only racial group that is affected and infected by HIV/Aids. Photographs of poor black Africans are also used to inform and educate the public about the pandemic. In short, the media has set an agenda that has given HIV/Aids a black African face: vulnerable, helpless and living in squalid conditions. The hypothesis of this research is that it is racial stereotyping of poor black Africans, and that it is perpetuated by the Daily Dispatch and other media.
It is also important to note that the voices of the affected and infected are not prominent in news reports about the pandemic. Their stories are either told by the journalists themselves or someone else as a spokesperson. The media must begin to give space to the heroes and heroines who are affected and infected by the HIV/Aids pandemic to tell their stories in their own words.
Qualitative content analysis of the Daily Dispatch from 1 to 31 December 2004 was conducted. News stories, photographs, headlines and captions were analysed.
This analysis shows that the voices of the affected and infected are still lacking in news reports and that poor black African people are used as the only visuals in HIV/Aids news stories.
This study recommends that more attention should be given to upholding and respecting the rights of the affected and infected by the disease. The media should also allow their voices to be heard, not through spokespeople, but from their own mouths.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Dit lyk of die media in sy voortgaande taak om Suid-Afrikaners in te lig en op te voed, die agenda op so ’n manier stel dat dit arm swart Afrikane as die enigste rassegroep voorstel wat deur MIV/Vigs geaffekteer en geïnfekteer word. Foto’s van arm swart Afrikane word ook gebruik om die publiek oor die pandemie in te lig en op te voed.
In ’t kort, die media het ’n agenda gestel wat MIV/Vigs ’n swart, Afrika-gesig gee: een wat arm, ontvanklik en hulpeloos is, en wat in haglike toestande leef.
Die hipotese van hierdie navorsing berus daarop dat dit rasse-stereotipiering is van arm swart Afrikane, en dat die Daily Dispatch en ander media dit perpetueer.
Dit is ook belangrik om daarop te let dat die stemme van die geaffekteerde en geïnfekteerde nie so prominent in nuusberige oor die pandemie is nie. Hul stories word vertel deur die joernaliste self, of iemand anders wat ’n segspersoon is. Die media moet begin om hierdie helde en heldinne wat deur die siekte geaffekteer en geïnfekteer is, self hul storie te laat vertel, in hul eie woorde.
Kwalitatiewe inhoudsanalise van die Daily Dispatch van 1 tot 31 Desember 2004 is uitgevoer. Nuusstories, foto’s, opskrifte en onderskrifte is geanaliseer.
Hierdie analise toon dat die stemme van die geaffekteerde en geïnfekteerde steeds in ons nuusberigte ontbreek en dat arm swart Afrikane die enigste visuele onderwerpe in MIV-Vigs nuusstories is.
Hierdie studie beveel aan dat meer aandag gegee moet word om die regte van die geaffekteerde en geïnfekteerde te bewaar en te respekteer. Die media moet ook toelaat dat diegene se stemme gehoor word, nie deur segspersone nie, maar uit hul eie monde.<br>ISISHWANKATHELOL: Kubonakala ngathi amajelo eendaba kwinzame zawo zokufundisa nokwazisa uluntu loMzantsi Afrika ngesifo sikaGawulayo neNtsholongwane yaso, abonakalisa abantu abaMnyama beli njengohlanga ekukuphela kwalo oluthi luchatshazelwe sesi sifo. Nkqu nemifanekiso ethi isetyenziswe kumabalili athetha ngesi sifo, yileyo yabantu abaMnyama abazimpula zikalujacu ezingathathi ntweni. Ngokufutshane amajelo eendaba anika isizwe umzobo osengqondweni othi, uGawulayo neNtsholongwane yakhe uchaphazela ze ubulale abantu abaMnyama abahluphekileyo nabaphila phantsi kweemeko zobugxwayiba.
Kusenjalo olu hlalutyo lubonakalise ukuba amazwi abantu abanesifo sikaGawulayo nabo bachaphazelekayo awakho kupapasho lweendaba. Kwakhona iingxelo ngesi sifo zinika ingqwasela kubantu abaMnyama abahluphekileyo neminifanekiso yabo kuphela. Akukho nto ithethekayo ngezinye intlanga.
Okokuqala, olu phando ngoko ke lucebisa ukuba makuhlonitshwe umGaqo Siseko weli ngokubhekiselele kumalungelo abantu ingakubi abo banesifo sikaGawulayo neNtsholongwane yaso.
Okwesibini, amajelo eendaba mawaqinisekise ukuba abantu abagula sesi sifo nabo sibachaphazelayo bayazithethela ngemilomo yabo kuba ngabo abajamelene neentlungu umhla nezolo.
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Landt, Erika. "Vilka får prata om Sverige? : En studie om vilka nyhetskällor som får komma till tals i PBS Newshour, FOX News och CNN:s inslag om Sverige." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79854.
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This essay examines which news sources gets to talk about Sweden in American news features about events in Sweden and if they give a positive or negative image of Sweden. I opted to examine three of the main news channels in the USA: PBS, FOX and CNN. I examined, more specifically, the sources gender, nationality and ethnicity, and which social position and status they had. Furthermore I also examined whether the sources were verbal or non-verbal and if they were visible or anonymous. Lastly I did an analysis of whether the sources gave a positive or negative image of Sweden in the news features. To execute the study I used the quantitative content analysis as my method. The results of the study show that the majority of the sources, used in American news features about events in Sweden, were Swedish professional males, who gave a negative image of Sweden. The majority of the sources were also visible and verbal. A small amount of the sources were anonymous, and PBS only used visible sources. The result did not differentiate much between the news channels, except when it came to if the sources were verbal or non-verbal. Every source used in PBS were verbal and the majority of the sources in FOX were verbal. In CNN’s news features, however, the majority of the news sources were non-verbal.
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Phiri, Millie Mayiziveyi. "Media representation of South Africas female politicians : the case of the Mail & Guardian – 2010 to 2011." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86556.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is a feminist investigation of the reporting on the female politicians in the
Mail & Guardian using the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development media requirements
on content as the yardstick. The Protocol is a regional policy adopted in 2008 by regional
governments aimed at achieving gender equity in key sectors by 2015. The Protocol is a
regional instrument set up to assist in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The study investigated whether the Protocol’s media requirements were being observed by
the Mail&Guardian. The media’s role of providing information can assist the MDGs to be
met. These requirements encourage the media in the region to reach gender parity in the use
of news sources and writing of news reports that help to reduce gender-based violence and
the portrayal of women that is not stereotypic and oppressive. The themes of the study, which
were “gender-based violence”, “gender oppression” and “stereotypes against women” were
influenced by these requirements. Gender-based violence is a major impediment to
development in Africa because of the heavy financial burden it puts on governments and
communities to treat victims and offer them shelter and counselling. Gender-based violence
affects women’s full productivity in society because it results in death or victims remaining
absent from work while they seek treatment. Stereotypes and gender oppression are viewed
as dangerous because not only do they deny younger generations role models but they
perpetuate the insubordination of women in society. The study linked the themes to female
parliamentarians because being legislators and policy makers, they have a strategic and critical role to play in helping to achieve gender equity. There is a perception that female
politicians offer different perspectives to issues. The media can be a vehicle through which
these female politicians can express their opinions. This is because the media is supposed to
offer freedom of expression to all its citizens regardless of gender. In order to examine if the
female ideology had a place in the Mail & Guardian a feminist theoretical approach was used.
The study employed a triangulation approach in which both the qualitative and quantitative
research methodologies were used. The quantitative method was employed to a small extent
to quantify the coverage of female politicians. Triangulation in data collection entailed using
both the content analysis and in-depth interviews. Findings of the study showed a violation of
the Protocol’s media requirements. News reporting about female politicians centred on
scandals and controversies and journalists and editors were ignorant of the Protocol’s media
requirements.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie was ’n feministiese ondersoek na die Mail & Guardian se verslaggewing oor vrouepolitici.
Dis gedoen met die interregeringsorganisasie, die Suider-Afrikaanse
Ontwikkelingsgemeenskap (SAOG), se Protokol oor Geslag en Ontwikkeling as maatstaf.
Die Protokol is ’n beleid wat in 2008 deur die owerhede van die SAOG-lidlande van stapel
gestuur is, met die oog op geslagsgelykheid in sleutelsektore teen 2015. Dit dien as
instrument en hulpmiddel in die nastreef van bogenoemde. Die studie stel ondersoek in na die
handhawing, al dan nie, van die Protokol se mediavereistes deur die Mail & Guardian. Die
media se rol as verskaffer van inligting kan die strewe hierna bevorder. Die vereistes moedig
die media in die onderskeie streke aan om geslagsgelykheid toe te pas wat betref die gebruik
van nuusbronne, die skep van nuusberigte wat bydra tot die vermindering van
geslagsgebaseerde geweld en die uitbeeld van vroue wat wegskram van stereotipering en
onderdrukking. Die temas van die studie-"geslagsgebaseerde geweld",
"geslagsonderdrukking" en “stereotipering van vroue" is gevolglik deur die Protokol se
vereistes beïnvloed. Geslagsgebaseerde geweld is ’n wesenlike struikelblok in die pad van
ontwikkeling in Afrika, deels weens die swaar finansiële las wat dit plaas op gemeenskaplike
en regeringsvlak. Só moet slagoffers dikwels behandeling, skuiling en berading ontvang. Dit
het ook ’n besliste impak op vroue se produktiwiteit in die breër samelewing, aangesien
slagoffers van geslagsgebaseerde geweld in sommige gevalle afwesig is uit die werksomgewing om behandel te word of-in meer ernstige gevalle-sterf. Stereotipering en
onderdrukking word as uiters gevaarlik beskou, aangesien dit nie nét die ondergeskiktheid
van vroue laat voortleef nie; maar boonop jonger generasies van rolmodelle ontneem. Die
temas van die studie word verbind met vroulike parlementslede weens hul rolle as
beleidsopstellers en wetmakers. Dié vroue het strategiese en belangrike verpligtinge om na te
kom in die strewe na geslagsgelykheid. Die persepsie bestaan dat vroue-politici dikwels ’n
ander, nuwe perspektief op kwessies bied. Die media kan in dié opsig as ’n waardevolle
voertuig aangewend word om die perspektiewe tuis te bring. Die media het ook ’n plig om
vryheid van uitdrukking te verseker aan alle landsburgers - ongeag hulle geslag. Ten einde te
bepaal of die ideologie deur die Mail & Guardian toegepas is, is ’n feministiese teoretiese
aanslag gevolg. Die studie het gebruik gemaak van triangulasie, waartydens beide
kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe navorsingsmetodologieë ingespan is. Die kwantitatiewe
metode is gebruik om die mediadekking van vroue-politici te kwantifiseer. Triangulasie is
ook tydens die data-insamelingsproses gebruik. Dit het ingesluit die aanwend van inhoudsanalises, asook in-diepte onderhoude. Die bevinding van die studie dui op die
oortreding van die Protokol se mediavereistes. Verslaggewing oor vroue-politici is grootliks
toegespits op skandale en omstredenheid en beide joernaliste en inhoudsredakteurs blyk
onkundig te wees oor die vereistes.
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Teng'o, Dan. "More of the Same: The Flow and Framing of African News on the Web sites of Five Western News Organizations and an African News Aggregator." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1217576335.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 29, 2009). Advisor: Max Grubb. Keywords: African news; news flow; framing; journalism; mass communication; agenda setting; gatekeeping. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-104).
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Kisuke, Connie Syomiti. "An investigation of the role of news values in the selection of news sources in a contemporary third world newspaper: a case study of the Daily Nation newspaper." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002900.
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News in our contemporary newspapers has come to be associated more and more with what the elites do and say. Both their deeds and misdeeds are treated as newsworthy events and in the process they become newsmakers, both actors and sources of news. Even when they are not directly involved in news events they are sought out by journalists to validate those events and to interpret the social reality to the readers as news sources. This study is about the selection of news sources in the Daily Nation, a contemporary, independent newspaper based in Nairobi, Kenya. In this study, I set out to unravel the complex processes that underlie newsmaking and source selection. This study is informed by the theory of news values and the paradigm of the role of media in democracy. Based on qualitative interviews, observations and content analysis of the front-page stories, it investigates the process of news and source selection in front-page stories. Through these approaches, I established that news values are significant criteria that inform journalists in both the selection of front-page news stories and the sources of these stories. I also established that social values of the society in which this newspaper operates are heavily embedded in the news. For example, the journalists preferred male politicians as sources of news in the front-page stories to women, and the elites to ordinary people, and this reflected on the social structures and cultural norms that are prevalent in this society. This study, further, established that the news values of this newspaper share commonly with the Western news media in terms of journalistic conventions and ways of interpreting the social reality in the news. Ideally, the newspaper embraces the principles of democracy in news reporting, but in practice it does not satisfactorily adhere to the full requirements of its democratic role in terms of source selection. The democratic principles in news reporting require, among other things, that the newspaper should allow a diversity of views in the news, representing various groups that are found in real society including the elites, non-elites, women, ordinary people and minorities. In the case of the Daily Nation, a tiny group of elite male professional politicians made up the largest majority of its front-page news sources.
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Jordaan, Marenet. "Social media in the newspaper newsroom : the professional use of Facebook and Twitter at Rapport and The Mail & Guardian." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20101.
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Thesis (MPhil) -- Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In a time of uncertainty for newspapers due in part to dwindling circulation, loss of
advertising revenue and declining readership, Internet-based technologies have continued to
grow. The unprecedented rise of social media, of which Facebook and Twitter are wellknown
examples, has not gone unnoticed by the newspaper community. Despite their initial
misgivings about the credibility of the information disseminated on these media, mainstream
journalists worldwide have gradually started to adopt social media as professional tools.
Social media serve as channels that help to funnel information towards journalists. Some
newspaper journalists also use these media to broadcast news and promote their personal
brands.
The continued use of social media on a professional level will arguably have an
impact on the daily routines and cultures within a newsroom. Academic research in this area
is limited, especially within the South African context. This study explores whether the
professional use of social media, with specific reference to Facebook and Twitter, influences
the processes and cultures of news selection and presentation at the South Africa newspapers
Rapport and the Mail & Guardian. A newsroom study within a social constructionism
paradigm employed a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies,
including self-administered questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and ethnography.
The main findings of this study were that the majority of journalists at Rapport and
the Mail & Guardian used Facebook and Twitter actively on a professional level – mainly for
trend tracking. The newsroom cultures were open and encouraging towards social media use.
Journalists were also aware that social media create opportunities for their audiences to
challenge the traditional roles of journalists and the realities constructed by the mainstream
media. According to the journalists from Rapport and the Mail & Guardian the professional
use of social media had not significantly altered their processes of news selection and
presentation.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Terwyl koerante ’n onsekere tyd beleef, deels weens dalende sirkulasiesyfers, ’n verlies aan
advertensie-inkomste en ’n afname in lesertalle, het Internetgebaseerde tegnologieë aanhou
groei. Die ongekende groei van sosial media, waarvan Facebook en Twitter welbekende
voorbeelde is, het nie ongesiens by die koerantgemeenskap verby gegaan nie. Ondanks hul
aanvanklike bedenkinge oor die geloofwaardigheid van inligting wat op dié media versprei
word, het hoofstroomjoernaliste wêreldwyd geleidelik begin om sosiale media as
professionele hulpmiddels te aanvaar. Sosial media dien as kanale waardeur inligting na
joernaliste vloei. Sommige koerantjoernaliste gebruik ook die media om nuus uit te saai en
hul persoonlike handelsmerk te bemark.
Die volgehoue gebruik van sosial media op ’n professionele vlak sal bes moontlik ’n
impak op die daaglikse roetine en kulture binne ’n nuuskantoor hê. Akademiese navorsing op
die gebied is beperk, veral binne die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks. Hierdie navorsing ondersoek
of die professionele gebruik van sosiale media, met spesifieke verwysing na Facebook en
Twitter, ’n invloed het op die prosesse en kulture van nuusseleksie en
-aanbieding by die Suid-Afrikaanse koerante Rapport en die Mail & Guardian. ’n
Nuuskantoorstudie, binne ’n sosiale konstruktivisme paradigma, het ’n kombinasie van
kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe navorsingsmetodologieë ingespan, insluitende:
selfgeadministreerde vraelyste, halfgestruktureerde onderhoude en etnografie.
Die hoofbevindinge van die studie was dat die meerderheid van die joernaliste by
Rapport en die Mail & Guardian Facebook en Twitter aktief op ’n professionele vlak gebruik
het – hoofsaaklik om tendense dop te hou. Die nuuskantoorkulture was oop en aanmoedigend
teenoor die gebruik van sosiale media. Joernaliste was ook bewus daarvan dat sosiale media
geleenthede skep vir hul gehore om die tradisionele rol van joernaliste, sowel as die realiteite
wat deur die hoofstroommedia geskep word, te betwis. Volgens die joernaliste van Rapport
en die Mail & Guardian het die professionele gebruik van sosiale media nie hul
nuusinsamelings- en aanbiedingsprosesse noemenswaardig beïnvloed nie.
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Bin-Taher, Ibrahim A. "Performance appraisal systems in United Arab Emirates print media: A case study of the Al-Ittihad and the Al-Bayan Press Corporations." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/619.
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Galant, Raashied. "The coalface of journalism: A qualitative research investigation into development communication objectives amongst rural newspapers in the Overberg District." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4190.
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Thesis (MPhil (Journalism))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>131 p.<br>This thesis explores how six commercial local newspapers based in the towns of
Swellendam, Bredasdorp, Caledon and Gansbaai are reporting on gender and HIV/AIDS
in ways that may help to shift specific attitudes as well as to generate appropriate
community responses. The overall aim of the study is to advance theories around the
location of commercial news media in the development context. It also aims to inform
and empower development workers and activists on the opportunities or pitfalls in
engaging with rural local media to advance their development goals.
In most prior studies into the nature of gender or HIV/AIDS reporting in the media in
South Africa, the focus has been exclusively on mainstream corporate and/or urbanbased
media titles and very little investigation has been done into the performance of small
ruralbased
media. The study employs two methods of data collection namely, a
quantitative content analysis of newspapers and structured interviews with the editors of
the papers, and a sample group of government employees and community activists in the
respective towns.
The structured interviews provide a qualitative dimension to the content analysis, bearing
in mind the dangers of quantifying media content and making isolated judgements on the
actual context of journalistic practice. Through the interviews, the researcher has been
able to explore the extent to which the perceptions of the media editors visavis
a public
interest role with respect to gender and HIV/AIDS actually differs from the quantitative
evidence of their performance and the perceptions of key informants in their
communities.
The findings of the study suggest that local rural media hold out great hope with respect
to the advancement of development communication goals through commercial media
platforms. The editors in the four towns have established organic connections with their
community, albeit tenuous, but which extend into the ranks of development workers in
their towns. The data from the content analysis suggests that women enjoy high visibility
in the pages of their local papers, and they are most likely to be portrayed as positive
achievers than as women encountering violence.
The tenuous nature of the connections between editor and community are most starkly
evident around the issue of HIV/AIDS, with coverage of this being very low despite much
work being undertaken in the community to deal with the pandemic. With respect to the
issue of gender, there was demonstrable evidence from actual examples of content, that
showed on the one hand the capacity to motivate for change in women's lives, but also on
the other hand a danger of reinforcing attitudes that compound women's oppression. The
study offers recommendations to a range of roleplayers to ensure, firstly, the continued
survival of local rural newspapers, and also support in building capacity to see these
papers mature into journalism products that are integrative and transformative.<br>Ford Foundation and the Media Development and Diversity Agency
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Truter, Charlene. "Burgerlike joernalistiek in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks : 'n ondersoek na die insluiting van gemarginaliseerde gemeenskappe deur herberaming met verwysing na projekte van die Cape Argus en Kaapse-Rapport." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17252.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since South Africa’s transition from a nationalistic state to a democracy in 1994, debates
about the media’s role have intensified as the challenges and complexities of the South
African society unfolded. In this debate, which mainly played out between the
government and the media, the liberal theory and the developmental theory were used
as the two main normative positions from which to contest the media’s role. As
normative theories they describe the ideal role of the press within societal systems and
thus fall within the functionalist paradigm.
Historically, the liberal approach was seen as the accepted normative framework for the
media within a democracy to protect that very democracy. The liberal consensus
adopted by the post-apartheid media therefore came as no surprise. However, the
optimism initially experienced regarding the independence of the new, liberal media, its
professionalisation and economic restructuring, is gradually being challenged by the
critical perspective. This perspective questions the extent of transformation in a public
sphere where entrance is still restricted by class structures.
The argument of this paper is that although the above changes to the media landscape
are recognised as important, they do not account for issues of class and how the poor,
the spaces they live in and the factors impacting on their lives, are framed by the media.
This paper is presented as a normative undertaking and presents civic journalism as
alternative normative framework. It moves from the premise that the representations
afforded to the poor in die media are being hampered by the individualistic aims of the
Western, liberal, journalistic tradition.
The argument is further that the use of a community-driven approach should lead to
broader representation of the poor in the media and the inclusion of this currently
marginalised group in the public sphere. Reframing, one of the most important methods
of civic journalism, is singled out to explore the possibility of applying civic journalism to
the South African context. The motivation for this paper is the belief that the need exists
for a greater plurality of voices and discourses.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Sedert Suid-Afrika in 1994 beweeg het van ’n nasionalistiese staat na ’n demokrasie, het
die debat oor die rol van die media algaande verdiep namate die uitdagings en
kompleksiteite van die Suid-Afrikaanse situasie ontvou het. In die debat tussen die postapartheid
media en die regering was die twee normatiewe posisies van waar die media
se rol by uitstek betwis is, die libertynse en ontwikkelingsteorie. As normatiewe teorieë
wat die ideale rol van die pers binne samelewingsisteme verwoord, val dit binne die
funksionalistiese paradigma.
Histories word die liberale benadering gesien as die vanselfsprekende roete wat ’n media
binne ’n demokrasie moet volg om daardie demokrasie te beskerm. Die liberale
konsensus van die post-apartheid media was in die lig hiervan geen verrassing nie. Maar
die optimisme wat aanvanklik ervaar is oor die onafhanklike, liberale media, sy
professionalisering en ekonomiese herstrukturering, word algaande uitgedaag deur ’n
kritiese perspektief. Hierdie perspektief bevraagteken die waarde van ’n
getransformeerde media waar toelating tot die openbare sfeer steeds deur klasstrukture
gereguleer word.
Alhoewel die bogenoemde erken word as belangrike veranderinge, is die argument dat
die liberale normatiewe paradigma nie genoeg was om kwessies van klas te verreken en
hoe armes, die kwessies wat hulle lewens beïnvloed en die ruimtes waarin hulle ’n
bestaan maak, deur die media beraam word nie. Hierdie werkstuk is ’n normatiewe
onderneming wat burgerlike joernalistiek as normatiewe raamwerk wil voorstel. Die
uitgangspunt is dat representasie van armes in die media deur die individualistiese
doelstellings van die Westerse, liberale joernalistieke tradisie beperk word.
Die argument is verder dat die toepassing van ’n gemeenskapsgerigte benadering
behoort te lei tot ’n breër representasie van armes en die insluiting van dié tans
gemarginaliseerde gemeenskappe by die openbare sfeer. Herberaming, een van die
belangrikste metodes van burgerlike joernalistiek, word uitgesonder om die
toepassingsmoontlikheid van burgerlike joernalistiek as alternatief te ondersoek. Die
motivering vir die werkstuk is die oortuiging dat daar in die Suid-Afrikaanse
mediakonteks ’n behoefte bestaan aan ’n groter diversiteit van stemme en diskoerse.
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Torres, Pablo, and Malin Haarala. "Ensam är stark eller ju fler desto bättre : En kvalitativ studie av journalisters syn på yrkesrollerna videojournalist och reporter i tvåmansteam." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi och medier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-13514.
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Wiklöw, Christoffer. "Media : Terroristens medhjälpare?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-73344.
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C-uppsats kandidat 2011 Title: Media – terroristens medhjälpare? Författare: Christoffer Wiklöw Språk: svenska Instution: JMK, Stockholm Universitet En kvalitativ studie om New York Times språkbruk kring terrorism. De valda frågeställningarna blev: Hur är New York Times språkbruk kring terrorism och 9/11 2001, respektive 2011? Hur har mass-mediated terrorism-diskursen förändrats mellan året 2001 och året 2011 i New York Times nyhetsartiklar om terrorism och 9/11? Hur ser en reporter på sin roll som skribent om 9/11, och hur kommer detta att indikera på att journalisten kanske faller offer för att vara terroristens medhjälpare? Och materialet för studien blev fyra artiklar från New York Times, och en intervju med en skribent bakom en av artiklarna. Teorival blev en kritisk teori-inriktad del med en socialkonstruktionisktisk infallsvinkel som stöd. Birgitte L. Nacos (2002) har teorier om ”mass-mediated terrorism” som stöd. Det finns även framing, nyhetsvärdering med i valet. Metodval blev Peter Berglez tolkning av van Dijks strukturerade nyhetsschema, vilket fick stöd av Norman Fairclough’s CDA. I resultatdelen ser vi hur New York Times språkbruk kring terrorism, och dess val av nyhetskonstruktion gör att de ändrar nyhetsvärdering till allt som kan beröra något av dessa tre: terrorister, makthavare/regering, och samhälle. Helst alla tre tillsammans. En intervju med en reporter fick ge en belysning på hur denna konstruktion av nyhet kan se ut, och även om denne var införstådd med känsligheten att rapportera om terrorism så fanns det tendenser för att han blir terroristens medhjälpare omedvetet.
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Raposas, Marites. "Civic Advocacy Journalism in Practice: Reports on the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-136970.
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With the changing political, economic, cultural and environmental landscape of global societies, journalistic writings on social development issues and concerns have become more relevant in recent times. Through civic advocacy journalism (CAJ), the agenda and programs of social development movements, civil society groups, international development organizations and non-government organizations are promoted and advanced. It is essential to understand the forms and representations of CAJ in practice, concepts and theories in the light of its relevance to media practice and to society at large. However, there is very little literature on the scope and extent of CAJ knowledge and practice. A researcher needs to look into actual practice and connect this with available literature to establish the application of CAJ. For this study, a qualitative content analysis method was used to assess CAJ practice in online print media reports at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit.
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Rossi, Gustaf. ""Several media reports today" – A comparative analysis of discursive practices within Swedish immigration critical media and public service media." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22562.
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Syftet med den här masteruppsatsen är att förstå nyhetsdiskurser i public service och invandringskritiska alternativmedier i Sverige. Uppsatsen fokuserar på hur de fyra största politiska partierna behandlar invandringsfrågan månaden före det riksdagsvalet 2018. Uppsatsen syftar mot att förstå skillnader och likheter i diskursiva praktiker om invandringsfrågan i två public service medier (Sveriges Television och Sveriges Radio) samt två invandringskritiska alternativmedier (Fria Tider och Nyheter Idag), och för att undersöka hur detta kan kopplas till minskat förtroende i traditionella medier.Uppsatsen grundar analysen på diskursteori av Fairclough i sammanhanhet av minskat förtroende för traditionella nyhetsmedier. För analys av resultaten används gestaltningteorin och dagordningsteorin, tillsammans med teorier om kommersialiserad journalistik.Metoderna som används är en kritisk diskursanalys baserad på Faircloughs tredimensionella modell, tillsammans med en retorisk analys som appliceras på Faircloughs textnivå. Dessa metoder användes på tolv medietexter som handlade om samma nyhet under augusti 2018.Resultaten visade en Överlägsenhetsdiskurs, där de invandringskritiska medierna intar en roll som överlägnsa de andra deltagarna i det politiska "spelet". Jag presebterar också en erkännandediskurs för att förklara en tredimensionell modell som innehåller politiker i botten, traditionella medier på andra nivån och invandringskritiska medier på toppen. Den sista diskursen är en "Vänskaps"-diskurs där de invandringskritiska medierna intar en "vänskaplig" roll mot andra aktörer i det politiska spelet, vilket ytterligare expanderar på teorier om politisk nyhetsjournalistik som ett spel.Framtida forskning kan riktas mot att bredda analysen och inkludera flera sorters alternativa medier, utföras i andra länder eller utveckla den model jag presenterar.<br>The aim of this master’s thesis is to understand news discursive practices in public service and the immigration critical alternative media of Sweden. The thesis focus on how the four largest political parties addresses the topic of immigration the month before the Swedish election in 2018. The thesis aims at identifying and understanding similarities and differences in the discursive construction of immigration as a political topic in two public service media (Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio) and two immigration critical alternative media (Fria Tider and Nyheter Idag), and to examine how this connects to the diminished trust in mainstream media.The thesis bases the analysis on discourse theory by Fairclough, and the context of distrust in traditional news media. To analyze the result, framing and agenda setting theories are used along with the theory of commercialized journalism.The methods used are a Critical Discourse Analysis based on Fairclough’s model supported by a rhetorical analysis which is applied on the text layer in Fairclough’s model. These methods are applied to a total of twelve media texts that covered the same stories during August of 2018.The results showed a superiority discourse where the immigration critical media enters a role of superior to other actors in the political “game”. I also present an acknowledgement discourse to support a three-level model, which consists of politics at the bottom, the mainstream media on the second level, and the alternative media on the top. The final discourse is the “Friendship” discourse where immigration critical media takes on a “friendship” role towards other actors in the political game, to further expand upon political journalism as a game.Future research could be aimed at widening the analysis to cover other forms of alternative media, be placed in other countries, or develop the model I propose.
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Wright, Alyssa Pamela. "Hero Reports : mapping civic courage." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46592.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2008.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-96).<br>Hero Reports extends the rationale of New York City's "See Something, Say Something" campaign-an alert public can be a good security measure. The current political climate within the United States translates the MTA's tactics into ones of fear. Instead of fostering collective security, these calls for vigilance create rifts between people and communities. An unhealthy impact of the "See Something, Say Something" campaign encourages people to look at each other with heightened and prejudicial suspicion. Although other projects have sought to interrogate the tactics of such citizen-detective campaigns, they do not provide productive alternatives. Because of this, projects seeking to deflect fear, only serve to reify and preserve its power. An alternative technology is needed to effectively destabilize the message of fear inherent in the MTA campaign. Hero Reports counterbalances the vigilance associated with suspicion and Othering with measures of positive and contextual alertness. It is a technology that builds communities that are truly, and collectively, empowering. Hero Reports provides this alternative first by aggregating stories of everyday heroism, and then by thematically, geographically and temporally mapping them. By linking and contextualizing discrete moments of heroism, Hero Reports promotes a public discourse about how we create, enforce and value social norms. Balancing the empirical ways we measure crime, Hero Reports provides the groundwork for determining the empirical parameters for heroism.<br>Alyssa Pamela Wright.<br>S.M.
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Clark, Brad Leavitt. "Characteristics of Contemporary Gag Order Requests in Media Law Reporter Volumes 19 Through 33." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3042.pdf.
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Holtzhausen, Jacobus Petrus. "A comparative analysis of the coverage of the South African electrical energy crisis during the period 2005-2010 by Cape Town newspapers." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/19914.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Electrical energy has become an indispensable part of the modern world, supporting
industries and economic systems. Any disruption of supply is felt immediately in all spheres
of life. The operation of a power system is a complex process involving rotating machines that
may fail from time even though they are maintained regularly. The overhead transmission
system is likewise prone to faults caused by environmental factors such as pollution and
lightning. Power authorities therefore operate their systems in such a way that they have
sufficient reserve capacity available to allow for contingencies. In the last decade of the
previous century a condition developed, for various reasons, that the reserve margin was too
small in the South African electricity supply system. At the end of 2005, a spate of failures
occurred at Koeberg power station and later in 2007 serious coal supply problems developed
at the large power stations in Mpumalanga, aggravating the situation.
This research project focuses on the complexity of the task of the reporter when
reporting on occurrences such as these. It is required to convey the factual situation to the
readers, avoiding alarmism and sensationalism. At the same time the reporter also has a role to
play in educating the readers. It was a difficult task, seeing that the reporters were not
necessary versed in the technical field. They therefore had to rely on Eskom’s spokespersons.
In this project newspaper clippings of various Western Cape newspapers containing the
word Eskom were analysed. The method of analysis was content analysis. Firstly the
quantitative content analysis was used to obtain distribution of articles over the period and
among newspapers. Thereafter the topics covered and the types of article were obtained for
the various newspapers and years. Next articles for 2006 and 2008 were investigated using
qualitative content analysis. Certain attributes in the articles were detected manually and a
profile was obtained for each newspaper for each year period.
Questionnaires were sent to reporters responsible for some of the articles and to a
technical expert who was consulted regularly by the news reporters.
It was found that the number of articles and style of presentation vary among the
newspapers. There is evidence of framing of Eskom as incompetent.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Elektriese energie het ¢n onontbeerlike deel van die moderne wêreld geword wat nywerhede
en ekonomiese stelsels ondersteun. Enige onderbreking van toevoer word onmiddellik in alle
lewensfere gevoel. Die werking van kragstelsel is komplekse proses met roterende
masjiene en ander toerusting wat onderworpe aan faling is, selfs al word dit in stand gehou.
Die oorhoofse transmissiestelsel is ook onderworpe aan foute wat deur omgewingsfaktore
soos besoedeling en weerlig veroorsaak word. Kragvoorsieners bedryf daarom hul stelsels
so dat hulle voldoende reserwekapasiteit het om toe te laat vir gebeurlikhede. In die laaste
dekade van die vorige eeu het die toestand, om verskeie redes, ontwikkel dat die
reserwemarge in die Suid-Afrikaanse stelsel te klein geword het. Teen die einde van 2005
het reeks falings by Koeberg kragstasie plaasgevind en later in 2007 het ernstige
steenkoolvoorsieningsprobleme by die groot kragstasies in Mpumalanga ontstaan en dus die
situasie vererger.
Hierdie navorsingsprojek fokus op die kompleksiteit van die taak van die verslaggewer
as oor sulke gebeure verslag gedoen word. Dit word vereis om die feitelike situasie oor te dra
sonder alarmisme en sensasie. Terselfdertyd moet die verslaggewer ook rol speel om die
lesers op te voed. Dit is moeilike taak daar die verslaggewers nie noodwendig belese in die
tegniese vakgebied is nie. Hulle moes dus staatmaak op Eskom se spreekbuise.
In hierdie projek is koerantuitknipsels van verskeie Wes-Kaapse koerante wat die woord
Eskom bevat, ontleed. Die metode wat gebruik is, is inhoudsanalise. Eerstens is kwantitatiewe
inhoudsanalise gebruik om die verspreiding van artikels oor die tydperk en tussen die koerante
te verkry. Daarna is die onderwerpe wat gedek is verkry vir die onderskeie koerante en jare.
Vervolgens is artikels van 2006 en 2008 ondersoek deur kwalitatiewe inhoudsanalise te doen.
Sekere kenmerke is in die artikels opgespoor en profiel is verkry vir elke koerant en elke
jaarperiode.
Vraelyste is aan verslaggewers wat sommige artikels geskryf het en ook aan tegniese
deskundige wat gereeld deur verslaggewers genader is, gestuur.
Dit is bevind dat die getal artikels en die styl van aanbieding wissel tussen die koerante
Daar is ook tekens van raming van Eskom as onbekwaam.
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Menz, Jan-Oliver [Verfasser], and Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Fritsche. "Media Reports and Inflation Expectations / Jan-Oliver Menz. Betreuer: Ulrich Fritsche." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1076359922/34.
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Hansen, Ryan W. "Social Media Correlates of Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms, Worry, and Social Anxiety." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1482421602020119.
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Westerberg, Olsson Mia. "Journalistrollens rivaler : Om public service-reportrars syn på sin roll i relation till användarskapat innehåll och medborgarjournalistik." Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-5175.
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<p>Journalists´ role in society has traditionally been of representative nature with a task to distribute news and scrutinize those in power. But technological changes have created a new publishing world outside the traditional media institutions. In today’s redactional society anyone can become a publisher in a blog or through other channels on online. This process can be seen as contributing to increased democratization giving everyone the opportunity to publish. However for those used to having monopoly on distributing news and scrutinizing society these changes are forcing journalists to adapt to a new competitive environment.</p><p> </p><p>There have been several previous studies of how this new digital milieu is affecting journalism from societal, organizational and news room perspectives. Little or no focus has been on how journalists themselves experience their changing professional status as a result of this new media world. Journalists employed by the public service broadcasters have got the most specified and explicitly expressed task with their responsibilities for contributing to a democratic society and an active citizenship, as stipulated by the government. How do these journalists deal with citizens now challenging the journalists´ previous well-guarded access to publishing?</p><p> </p><p>This essay examines the affect of these changes on journalists within two public service organizations in Sweden, asking journalists to reflect on the impact on their professional roles. The study is based on ten interviews with regional journalists employed by the Swedish public service radio and television corporations: Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Television. The analyze is based on theories on public service, professionalism and boundary maintenance.</p><p>The study shows that the interviewed journalists identify more strongly with being a part of a public service ethos than being a journalist as such. They value the relationship with the audience and express a wish for even more contact with listeners and viewers. At the same time they want to continue to keep the in-house control over the journalistic process where they are the producers of the content. It is clear that the journalists appreciate publishing initiative allowing the general public to ‘be journalists’ but they warn against mixing the citizen reports with journalism. Citizen contribution in terms of user generated content or citizen journalism, is considered as something to satisfy people’s “creativity and wish to express themselves” – not a valuable contribution to journalism.</p><p>Boundary maintenance mechanisms can be clearly observed among the journalists in an attempt to keep their journalistic authority and the arguments used refer to the “other´s” lack of credibility, accountability and impartiality. A similar role hierarchy can also be identified within the occupational group, where some characteristics and qualities are considered to contribute to a more “genuine” journalism than other. Nevertheless, a journalistic “us” always appears when boundaries are marked against what is looked on as non-journalism, for example user generated content and grass root journalism.</p>
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Chang, Yao. "Framing China how U.S. media reported eight U.S. state visits by top Chinese leaders /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.
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Lindholm, Henric. "Former President of a Former Colony : How The Guardian reported on the final events leading to Robert Mugabe’s resignation." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-41331.
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During the month of November 2017, the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe was taken into custody by Zimbabwe’s military. This was a move in order to shift the governmental power after which Mugabe after almost 40 years as President of Zimbabwe resigned from his post. The thesis contains a Ccritical Ddiscourse Aanalysis of articles published by one of the world’s great newspapers during this shift of power. The newspaper analysed is the British newspaper ‘The Guardian’. The analysis studied which characters and major topics are represented in the articles and how they are represented to see what fits inside The Guardian’s news reporting on the final events in the shift of power in Zimbabwe. In order to find these discursive attributes, pictures linked to the articles were analysed, the context in which the events happened as well as the discourse used in the articles from a perspective of orientalism, post-colonialism and ideology. Other theoretical aspects used are framing, representation and critical Critical Ddiscourse Sstudies. The empirical case in this research project involves three articles collected from T‘the Guardian ’ reaching from the reporting of Mugabe’s firing of his vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa to the reporting of Robert Mugabe resigning as President of Zimbabwe. The interest in this study is springing from the normative approach of news media to provide an objective story to the readers while providing the whole picture. With this mission many different challenges come along of orientalist and post-colonial character, as ‘the Guardian’The Guardian is a British newspaper and Zimbabwe being a former British colony. The results concluded an absence of post-colonial and orientalist representations in the news frames regarding Zimbabwe and its population, the most ideologically charged instances rather revolved around Robert and Grace Mugabe.
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Ujevic, Danica. "(Re)Presentations of Sexual Violence Against Women: An Analysis of Media Reports of Rape." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32069.
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There is a problem with attitudes that blame the victim of sexual assault: these attitudes are widespread and show popular adhesion to assumptions about rape that have been criticized and combatted by feminists. These assumptions are known as “rape myths.” It is important to look at the role newspapers play in contemporary discourse around rape and the extent to which they reproduce rape myths or, alternatively, incorporate a feminist critique. This research examines how sexual assault is constructed in three English-language newspapers, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and The National Post in the year 2012. Using qualitative content analysis, themes of rape myths and the presence of feminist discourse are categorized. The power of language when describing rape in the media is recognized and a description of rape-supportive culture, within a feminist theoretical framework, is provided. The ultimate aim of this research is to identify and challenge myths and stereotypes surrounding rape as well as identify possible feminist discourse on rape in print news media in Canada.
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Cloyd, Suzanne Marie. "Stop the Presses: Representations of Women's Progress in Corporate America Reported through Popular News Media." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1085.
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This study investigated the following key areas: women in the public sphere, women in the private sphere, and how media portrayals in these areas portray women's progress in obtaining executive positions in corporate America.
Topics of interest include wage differences between genders, executive placement, and attainment in board positions throughout Corporate America.
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Geller, Lucas Scott. "Strategic clarity and strategic ambiguity news reports on the Taiwan Strait Issue in Official Sino-American media, a case study of comparative media /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1243625197.
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Geller, Lucas S. "Strategic Clarity and Strategic Ambiguity: News Reports on the Taiwan Strait Issue in Official Sino-American Media, A Case Study of Comparative Media." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243625197.
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Schlick, Robert Eugene. "A Comparative Media Study of How AIDS-Related News is Reported in Mainstream and Alternative Presses." PDXScholar, 1992. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4627.
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This thesis examines the reporting of AIDS-related news in both mainstream and alternative newspapers. This research suggests that mainstream newspapers, such as the New York Times, frame news stories in certain ways. Specifically, this study suggests that news about AIDS will be framed in ways which trivialize and/or marginalize those most affected by AIDS. The thesis also posits that the mainstream press will frame AIDS-related news in ways which support their own interests. Additionally, this research suggests that alternative presses, such as the Advocate, will frame their reporting of AIDS-related news in ways which support their interests. The mainstream newspaper articles for this study were taken from the New York Times, and the Oregonian. The alternative press articles were taken from the Advocate, the New York Native, Christopher Street, outlook, and the San Francisco Bay Area Reporter. The news stories focus on four individuals: Magic Johnson, Rock Hudson, Kimberly Bergalis, and Mark Woodley. The results of this thesis reveal that some mainstream reporting of AIDS-related news is framed in ways which trivialize and/or marginalize those affected by AIDS. The study also shows that the alternative presses frame reporting of AIDS-related news in ways which not only support their interests but in ways which appear to react to the reporting of the mainstream presses. Finally, there is evidence of hegemony as an underlying principle for the way news about AIDS is framed.
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Pizarro, Macedo Christian Wilson. "Manejo de fractura radicular en tercio medio, con apicoformación: reporte de caso." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/11683.
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Presenta la extrusión quirúrgica mínimamente traumática como
una alternativa de tratamiento a una pieza con fractura de esmalte y dentina
con compromiso pulpar y fractura vertical de raíz. Esta técnica puede
efectuarse en piezas dentales en un estado latente de inflamación
Reporta el caso de una paciente de sexo femenino de 12 años de edad, sin ningún
antecedente médico o familiar relevante, ABEG y LOTEP, acudió a la consulta
con un antecedente de contusión a la altura del labio superior, del lado
izquierdo, al examen clínico presenta edema en la zona, fragmento se de la
pieza 21 fracturada, al examen radiográfico se confirma la fractura radicular a
nivel del tercio medio , estadio de Nolla 9. El diagnóstico definitivo es fractura
de esmalte y dentina con compromiso pulpar y fractura radicular en tercio
medio. Se opta por realizar una extrusión quirúrgica mínimamente traumática,
para recuperar la anatomía cervical de la pieza dental. La extrusión fue de
5mm, seguida de una ferulización flexible por 30 días. Para iniciar el
tratamiento de conducto se inicia con una apicoformación simplificada usando
Biodentine, posteriormente el tratamiento de conducto y finalmente la
rehabilitación usando poste de fibra de vidrio y corona de ceromero.
Encuentra que el periodo de observación del tratamiento fue de 12 meses desde
que se realizó el procedimiento de la extrusión hasta su último control, la
cantidad de extrusión fue de 5 mm, la movilidad dental finalizo después de los
30 días de ferulización. No se evidencio signos de inflamación de encía
marginal así mismo el tratamiento de conductos permitió una buena reparación
peri apical, el cual fue demostrado clínica y radiográficamente a los 12 meses
después del tratamiento. Concluye que la extrusión quirúrgica mínimamente
traumática mostró ser una alternativa viable para la recuperación de piezas con
fractura vertical incluso estando 5 mm por debajo de la unión cemento esmalte,
la formación de la barrera apical fue óptima. La rehabilitación mediante estas
técnicas permite reducir los tiempos operatorios y así mejorar la calidad de vida
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Nodoba, Todani. "The political role of black women journalists in post-apartheid South Africa : Sowetan (1994-1999)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18112.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Black journalists in South Africa have played a crucial role in exposing the political
oppression of black South Africans during the Apartheid era. In this regard the Sowetan
newspaper made a great contribution. However, the political role that black women
journalists played at the Sowetan has been ignored, before and after 1994. After 1994,
political black women journalists at the Sowetan continued to make strides despite the
hostile environment that these women journalists worked in. The limitation of beats and
assignments, lack of promotions and many other challenges that black women journalists
faced during this period made their work environment unfriendly and hostile towards
their performance.
This study examines the political role made by black women journalists at the Sowetan
newspaper from 1994 to 1999. The study shows how the black women journalists
brought different perspectives in news at the Sowetan through their manner of reporting
and also how they viewed matters within the context of a new democracy in South
Africa.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Swart joernaliste in Suid-Afrika het ’n onontbeerlike rol gespeel in die onthulling van die politieke onderdrukking van swart Suid-Afrikaners tydens die apartheidsjare. In hierdie verband het die Sowetan-koerant ’n groot bydrae gelewer. Die politieke rol van swart
vrouejoernaliste by die Sowetan is egter geïgnoreer, voor en ná 1994. Ná 1994 het
politieke swart vrouejoernaliste by die Sowetan steeds opgang gemaak, ten spyte van die
vyandige omgewing waarin hierdie vroue gewerk het. Beperkte opdragte en spesialisonderwerpe om te dek, ’n gebrek aan bevordering en die talle ander uitdagings
wat swart vrouejoernaliste in hierdie tydperk moes trotseer, het hul werksomgewing
onvriendelik en vyandig gemaak met betrekking tot hul werksverrigting.
Hierdie studie ondersoek die politieke rol wat vanaf 1994 tot 1999 deur swart
vrouejoernaliste by die Sowetan gespeel is. Die studie toon aan hoe die swart
vrouejoernaliste ander nuusperspektiewe na die Sowetan gebring het, met die wyse
waarop hulle verslag gedoen het en ook waarop hulle aangeleenthede in die breë verband
van ’n nuwe demokratiese bestel in Suid-Afrika beskou het.
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Haig, Edward. "Media Representations of Political discourse : A critical discourse study of four reports of Prime Minister's Questions." 名古屋大学大学院国際言語文化研究科, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/8158.
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Zhu, Jun Chao. "The evolution of official media reports on video games :a case study of the People's Daily." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953768.
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Virén, Henrik, and Sandro Dahlström. "Communication of Environmental Issues : A Comparison Between Sustainability Reports and Social Media in the Automotive Industry." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för handel och företagande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-16161.
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Sustainability is a topic that has become increasingly important for companies over the last decades. The increasing pressure from stakeholders has led to communication of sustainability to be very important for companies who wish to be seen as sustainable. The main way corporations communicate their sustainability activities are through the annual report. Whether in a standalone sustainability report or as an integrated part of the whole annual report, most of the larger companies today have some form of sustainability reporting. Over the last years, other ways of communicating sustainability activities have surfaced. The social media boom has created an excellent communication channel for companies to directly communicate with its stakeholders. In the automotive industry environmental issues have been a focus point for many companies over the last decades. Pressure from society and stakeholders to produce more environmentally friendly vehicles have only increased over the last years. This leads us to the purpose of this study, which is to compare the communication of environmental issues in social media and in sustainability reports in the automotive industry. The study has been done by conducting a content analysis of the sustainability reports and posts on social media sites. Beside the content analysis, our thesis contains a quantitative part to emphasize which environmental topics the companies communicate about. The Global Reporting Initiatives environmental indicators have been used to do the quantitative part of this study. This has helped us divide the different information into various environmental topics to see what is being communicated. The timeframe for the study have been 1st of January 2015 to 31st December 2017, which means we have looked at three years of social media activity and three sustainability reports for the companies in the study. The companies involved in the study are BMW, Groupe Renault, Volvo Cars, and Volkswagen. The results of our study show that social media and sustainability reports to be very different types of communication channels. Social media revolves around short promotional messages, while sustainability reports aim to give a more fair and broad view of the companies’ environmental engagements. In sustainability reports we have found information to cover most of the environmental indicators, while on social media there is a focus on a smaller amount of topics. Another finding concerns target audience which differ for the studied communication channels. Social media are more directed towards the customer type of stakeholders, while the sustainability reports are more directed towards an investor type of stakeholder.
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Cokeley, Katrien. "Framing Homelessness as Crisis: A Comparative Content Analysis of Local Media Reports on Portland's Tent Cities." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3943.
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This content analysis of mainstream and alternative news narratives interprets the use of the crisis media frame, and describes the relationship between local policy initiatives, media discourse and public opinion on tent cities, organized by people experiencing homelessness in Portland, Oregon. Framing homelessness and housing as a crisis intensified the public debate, attested by an increase in mainstream media reports on tent cities, and by controversial policy changes that addressed the individually-experienced traumatic impacts of the City's anti-camping ordinance, as well as the systemic lack of affordable housing and emergency shelter. Media discourse related to city-sanctioned tent cities blurs the lines between Shanto Iyengar's episodic and thematic media frames because of the simultaneous acknowledgement of individual and systemic circumstances. The crisis frame is a discursive mechanism in the production of knowledge on homelessness and housing, and is considered as an integral characteristic of Henri Lefebvre's conceptual model of socio-spatial production, which describes the interdependency between discourse, practice and meaning in the material and symbolic production of space.