Tourism and biosecurity: a content analysis of Aotearoa New Zealand news media reporting 2009–2019

In this study, we present a contextual model for analyzing the escalatory and de-escalatory trends in media reporting of seven conflicts in Pakistan. For this purpose, we combined findings from both survey and content analysis. While the survey helped to examine the journalists’ perceptions about the security threats of conflicts and the factors that influence the reportage, the content analysis was utilized to analyze the escalatory and de-escalatory characteristics in the coverage. The findings show that high security conflicts lead to a patriotic reporting scenario that results in high escalatory coverage. There is a significant decrease in the escalatory coverage as the assumed threat level of a conflict decreases. Similarly, we found that a conflict in which journalists exercised more relative freedom from pressure groups was reported in de-escalatory fashion. These findings can be useful for strategizing for the implementation of peace journalism in Pakistan in particular and elsewhere in general.

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Who is 'New Zealand'? Publics in Aotearoa/New Zealand General Election Discourse

10.26686/wgtn.17060252 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

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Ian Anderson

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

New Zealand ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Voter Turnout ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Public ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

General Elections ◽

The Right

<p>2011 saw the lowest voter turnout in Aotearoa/New Zealand since women won the right to vote (Vowles, 2014). This decline in participation aligns with trends elsewhere in the Anglosphere (Ailes, 2015; Hansard, 2015). This organic crisis poses new questions for notions of the ‘public sphere’ and ‘publics’ – the forms of political engagement with citizens in a mass-mediated society. Fraser (1990) contends that in theorising the “limits of actually existing late capitalist democracy” (p. 57), we need a notion of pluralised and contesting ‘publics’ (ibid). The project asks how political parties named the 'public' (or publics) in the 2011 and 2014 Aotearoa / New Zealand General Elections. In order to consider the dominance of these political articulations, research will also consider whether these invocations of 'the public' found coverage in the national press. This is not intended as a sociological examination of actually existing publics, but an examination of dominant encoding (Hall, 2001). This analysis tests the thesis that dominant cross-partisan electoral discourses defined the 'public' in terms of dual identification with productive work and capital, in opposition to named subaltern publics. This formulation suggests that workers are called to identify with capital, following from Gramsci’s (2011) theorisation of bourgeois hegemony. Research begins with a content analysis of party press releases and mainstream coverage during the 2011 & 2014 General Elections, when official discourses hailing 'the public' are intensified. Content analysis quantifies nouns used for publics – for example, 'taxpayer', 'New Zealander', or even 'the public'. From this content analysis, the project proceeds to a critical discourse analysis, which seeks to historically contextualise and explain the patterns in content. Reworking Ernesto Laclau's (2005a) theorisation of populism to factor in the left/right axis (which Laclau considered outmoded), this critical discourse analysis considers what 'public' alliances are articulated, and what political programmes these articulations serve.</p>

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Aotearoa/New Zealand Print News Media Reportage of the Environment

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x0812700118 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 127 (1) ◽

pp. 152-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Geoffrey Craig

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

News Media ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Economic Life ◽

News Stories ◽

Industry Group ◽

Print News ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Environmental News ◽

The Impact

This article is based upon a month-long survey of the reportage of New Zealand environmental news in the country's metropolitan daily and Sunday newspapers. The study examines topics such as the coverage of different environmental issues, the frequency and distribution of different types of sources accessed for the news stories, the distribution of environmental news across different sections of the newspapers, and the ratio of news stories to opinion articles. The article concludes that ‘the environment’ is often interpreted through an economic and business framework in newspaper reportage. This is reflected in the prominence of particular kinds of environmental issues in the survey, such as climate change and electricity/energy production and consumption, and the dominance of bureaucratic and corporate/industry group sources in environmental news. The increasingly problematic nature of ‘the environment’, and the growing importance of the impact of environmental change on economic life, particularly in a national economy that remains heavily reliant on agriculture, is evident in a high proportion of ‘op-ed’ articles in the survey and a high proportion of environmental news stories in the business sections of the newspapers.

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“Go NZ YAS!!”: Children’s news media texts as curriculum resources in Aotearoa New Zealand

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood ◽

10.1177/1463949119888496 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 337-349

Author(s):

Alexandra C Gunn ◽

Nicola Surtees

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

News Media ◽

School Curriculum ◽

Media Content ◽

News Reporting ◽

Pedagogical Strategy ◽

Know How ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Current Affairs ◽

The World

Attending to current affairs and news within schools’ curricula is a potential pedagogical strategy that holds promise for addressing children’s knowledge, perspectives and agency in the world. However, our research suggests teachers’ good intentions may be compromised by tension between the details of news media content and the curriculum as enacted and planned. We report here on a study investigating two children’s news media publications designed to support Aotearoa New Zealand’s school curriculum. Our research enquires into content produced as children’s news and associated discourses about Aotearoa New Zealand, Aotearoa New Zealand life and the world. A dominant category of news reporting in the texts was sport (national and international). Analysis of this category identified particular discourses and constructions of New Zealand, New Zealanders and ‘others’ within the texts. Individual and collective sporting heroism was a dominant discourse in both the news items and children’s published responses. Furthermore, a construction of Aotearoa New Zealand as a relatively safe and non-corrupt place to live was also observed. Questions of what is important to know, how children are engaging with such valued knowledge and implications for teaching and teachers’ practices are raised from this research. Importantly, we ask: is this preoccupation with sports and heroism within children’s news made at the expense of opportunities to engage with children about a fuller range of real-world issues, including ‘difficult knowledge’, that potentially impact upon their lives?

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The ethics of news media reporting on coronavirus humor

Humor - International Journal of Humor Research ◽

10.1515/humor-2021-0011 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 305-327 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nathan Miczo

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

News Media ◽

Early Phase ◽

Qualitative Content Analysis ◽

Online News ◽

Ethical Principles ◽

Media Reporting ◽

News Stories ◽

The Media

Abstract This essay explores the news media’s portrayal of humor during the early phase of COVID-19-related lockdowns. Examining a collection of online news articles reveals the media tended to frame the issue as an ethical one (e.g., “is it okay to laugh at the coronavirus?”). After reviewing work on humor ethics, a qualitative content analysis of 20 news media articles is presented. Three issues from the news stories are identified, allowing comparison of the media’s claims against the ethical principles articulated. The essay concludes with a consideration of how news media’s coverage of humor fits within a broader pandemic narrative.

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Diversity reportage in Aotearoa: Demographics and the rise of the ethnic media

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v15i1.965 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 67-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

David Robie

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

News Media ◽

Asian Population ◽

Media Industry ◽

Ethnic Media ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Regional Trends ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Media ◽

The Impact

For more than two decades, diversity has been a growing mantra for the New Zealand news media. Initially, the concept of biculturalism—partnership with the indigenous tangata whenua—was pre-eminent in the debate, but as the nation’s Pasifika and ethnic media have flourished and matured and demographics have rapidly changed, multiculturalism has become increasingly important and challenging. The regional media relationship in the context of contested notions such as the ‘arc of instability’ and the impact of coups and crises on journalists has become critical. Projected demographics by Statistics New Zealand indicate that the country’s Asian population will almost double by 2026. The Pasifika and Māori populations are also expected to grow by 59 and 29 per cent respectively. Māori, Pasifika and ethnic media in Aotearoa/New Zealand are also steadily expanding with implications for the media industry and journalism educators. This article examines the regional trends and how initiatives such as the Pacific Media Centre and new journalism courses with an emphasis on diversity are addressing the challenges.

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‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’—Australian media industry attitudes to regulation and accountability reforms

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v18i2.265 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 68 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Johan Lidberg

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

News Media ◽

Public Trust ◽

Media Industry ◽

Media Reporting ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

The Media ◽

Independent Media

When the Australian Independent Media Inquiry (IMI) published its report most mainstream media reporting focused on the suggested statutory-based News Media Council and largely ignored any discussion of the underlying issues—public trust in journalism and news media and accountability for its practices. The aim of this study was to capture the attitudes held by the media industry toward these issues. Based on a content analysis of 33 submissions to the IMI and the Convergence Review it can be concluded that only 15 percent of the submissions addressed trust or media accountability issues. Furthermore, the submissions illustrate a disconnect between the attitudes held by some media proprietors and the trust deficit reality displayed in multiple studies of the public’s attitudes to journalism and news media.

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Muted resistance: The deployment of youth voice in news coverage of young women’s sexuality in Aotearoa New Zealand

Feminism & Psychology ◽

10.1177/0959353519864376 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 80-99

Author(s):

Tracy Morison ◽

Sarah Herbert

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Young People ◽

News Media ◽

News Coverage ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Youth Voice ◽

News Reporting ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Youth Sexuality ◽

Feminist Poststructuralist

Youth sexuality is typically constructed as a social problem, and associated with a range of negative consequences for larger society and for young people themselves – especially young women. The media play a role in perpetuating this dominant construction, but may also offer a space for resistance. In this article, mainstream news media reportage on youth sexual and reproductive issues in Aotearoa (New Zealand) is discursively analysed to identify instances of resistance to oppressive discourses. Taking a feminist poststructuralist perspective, the aim is to connect news reporting, as a representational practice, with broader relations of power. The focus of the analysis, therefore, is on whether and how young people are allowed a voice in news reportage, and to what effect their voices are deployed. The analysis demonstrates not only that youth voice is relatively muted in comparison to experts, but also that it is frequently used to reinforce the dominant constructions of youth sexuality (as problematic and risky). Yet, instances of resistance are also evident. These are assessed in relation to their impact on gender power relations, and possibilities for amplifying resistance are discussed.

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Dimensions of Indigenous journalism culture: Exploring Māori news-making in Aotearoa New Zealand

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884913495757 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 15 (8) ◽

pp. 951-967 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Folker Hanusch

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

News Media ◽

Research Community ◽

Limited Attention ◽

Communication Research ◽

Mainstream Media ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

Counter Narrative ◽

Mainstream Society ◽

Depth Interviews

Indigenous news media have experienced significant growth across the globe in recent years, but they have received only limited attention in mainstream society or the journalism and communication research community. Yet, Indigenous journalism is playing an arguably increasingly important role in contributing to Indigenous politics and identities, and is worthy of closer analysis. Using in-depth interviews, this article provides an overview of the main dimensions of Indigenous journalism as they can be found in the journalism culture of Ma¯ori journalists in Aotearoa New Zealand. It argues that Ma¯ori journalists see their role as providing a counter-narrative to mainstream media reporting and as contributing to Indigenous empowerment and revitalization of their language. At the same time, they view themselves as watchdogs, albeit within a culturally specific framework that has its own constraints. The article argues that the identified dimensions are reflective of evidence on Indigenous journalism from across the globe.

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