scholarly journals Payday loans in the press: a discourse-mythological analysis of British newspaper coverage of the payday loan industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Kate Budd ◽  
Darren Kelsey ◽  
Frank Mueller ◽  
Andrea Whittle
Keyword(s):  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Payday Loans ◽  
The Press

The Press and Public Access to the Environment and Development Debate

1993 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Lacey ◽  
David Longman
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Press ◽  
Long Time ◽  
On Line ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Economic Future

This paper presents an analysis of some aspects of newspaper coverage of environment and development issues. In particular, Global Warming and the Sudan famine are used as case studies of the features of this coverage. It argues that there are few grounds for adopting the optimistic view, as taken by some researchers, that the press will sustain and deepen its reporting of these issues. The analysis uses a computer-based methodology in which a key feature is the use of full-text on-line database of the contents of four newspapers. This paper presents the first steps in applying this methodology to the investigation of press reporting. It shows how the broad quantitative indicators available from this source can illustrate comparative patterns of newspaper coverage over long time periods and a wide range of themes. The ultimate purpose of this analysis is to understand the processes which contribute to informing or educating public debate about issues that crucially affect the political and economic future of society. The argument is that the press docs educate the public (its readers) but that this process is highly selective, it can contradict espoused editorial policy, and frequently environment and development issues receive less prominence as their political significance increases. The analysis shows therefore that in many cases the coverage given to these issues actually declines even as their significance increases. The authors argue that a social solution is required if the press is to be re-established as a public educator in a more positive sense. Methods must be developed for monitoring and influencing the processes by which the press manipulates the climate of opinion whilst nurturing its readership. One approach to this problem is taken by the Education Networks for Environment and Development Project at Sussex University where the results of this type of analysis are used to inform an open network of workers in a variety of professional institutions. Future investigations will look in more detail at this concept.

An Annotated Bibliography of Journalism Subjects in American Magazines

1943 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
F. E. Merwin ◽  
N. N. Luxon
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Associated Press ◽  
The Press

The invasion of North Africa by American troops and President Roosevelt's air trip to Casablanca marked the beginning and ending of the current period with resulting emphasis on newspaper coverage of that theater in articles on the press and communications. The government's suit against the Associated Press on monopoly charges attracted a great deal of interest. Censorship of stories going out of this country to England aroused some concern. Advertisers and media, not too displeased with the 1942 showing, fought back hard when a group of social scientists asked that advertising be eliminated for the duration. F. E. M.

Labor Makes the News: Newspapers, Journalism, and Organized Labor, 1933–1955

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Philip M. Glende
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Labor Leader ◽  
Union Activity ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Press ◽  
Occupational Goals

Labor Makes the Newsexamines newspaper coverage of organized labor during the burst of union activity that began in the early 1930s. For activists and sympathizers, it was an article of faith that newspapers were deliberately unfair. However, publishers and their employees responded to the labor movement with great diversity, in part because publishers recognized that many readers were union members. For reporters, covering labor tested the boundary between personal and political interests and the professional ideal of neutrality on news pages. While publicly condemning the press, labor officials used newspapers to establish their legitimacy and wage war against enemies. Examining the treatment of organized labor provides a window for viewing the interplay among the sociopolitical, economic, and occupational goals of the publisher, the editorial worker, and the labor leader.

An Ideal Misconstrued: Newspaper Coverage of the Atlanta Paralympic Games in France and Germany

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto J. Schantz ◽  
Keith Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
German Press ◽  
The Press ◽  
News Value ◽  
Athletes With Disabilities ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Paralympic Games ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this study was to analyze newspaper coverage of the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics by the French and German press. Drawing on media theories and critical concepts of exclusion and disability. 104 articles from 8 French and German nationwide newspapers were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methodology. The results suggest that performances of athletes with disabilities are of little importance to the French and German sport press. Indeed, the way in which the newspapers reported on the Paralympics misconstrued the ideal of the Paralympic Games. Instead of reporting on the sporting and idealistic aspects of this meeting, the press chose the commercial logic of general news value and focused primarily on national success and medal rankings of the countries.

scholarly journals Polski dyskurs patriotyczny w prasie i w pismach okolicznościowych z 2. połowy XVIII wieku

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Mirosława Siuciak
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
Surrounding World ◽  
Russian Army ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Face

The article examines the process of shaping of the Polish patriotic discourse, which was determined by such events of the 18th century as the Bar Confederation, the Great Sejm proceedings, and the Kościuszko Uprising. In a situation in which Poland was threatened with the invasion of surrounding world powers and in the face of impending armed struggle for sovereignty, the then most important values uniting the Polish nation were formulated. The first entity to define them were the Bar confederates, who fought against the Russian army in defence of their fatherland, religion, freedom, and independence. In the 1790s the patriotic discourse shifted to the press covering the proceedings of the Great Sejm, and later to newspaper coverage of the Kościuszko Uprising. During these events, the freedom demands were altered because the conservative Sarmatian republicanism had been replaced with ‚new’ republicanism – characterised by social radicalism and supporting the separation of church and state. Despite some semantic shifts, for more than 200 years the most significant values constituting the Polish patriotic discourse have been: fatherland, freedom, and independence.

Nos journaux sont-ils compréhensibles?

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 595-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaëtan Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Press

AbstractJournalistic writing is usually conceived as simple, clear and accessible. It is a vulgarisation discourse. Using a sophisticated program for discourse analysis (DEREDEC), the author has computerized the Flesch and Gunning readability tests. Montreal French newspaper coverage of the White Paper on the referendum constitute the corpus of this study. In brief, the unexpected conclusion is that newspapers are not so readable. The author attempts to explain this situation, referring not only to the journalists' competence but also to their working conditions. Also, what social and political influence can the press have if papers are hardly readable?

scholarly journals Mutual Profiteering: Sensational Journalism, Society Columns, and Mrs James Brown Potter’s Theatrical Debuts

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-98
Author(s):  
Eileen Curley
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
The Press

In 1887, amateur theatrical performer Cora Urquhart Brown Potter turned professional amid a maelstrom of international newspaper coverage. Newspapers picked up the story of her career, feeding a desire for salacious gossip at the expense of the elite celebrity cast as a fallen woman. Yet, Potter and the press developed a symbiotic relationship, as her non-traditional path to the stage required that she transform her personal celebrity into a professional one in order to attract audiences and bookings. The papers obliged and, as the story developed and her celebrity transformed, they shifted their coverage of Potter’s journey from society columns, to theatrical columns, to sensational front-page spreads. Potter’s early career paralleled and capitalised on such new developments in the newspaper industry and its messaging. While the press continued to sell her scandal, Potter used the papers to profit from her society past while forging her future as a theatre professional.

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