Outside the Frame: Newspaper Coverage of the Sugar Ray Leonard Wife Abuse Story

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Messner ◽  
William S. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Wife Abuse ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Physically Abused ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
News Stories

This article analyzes the print media’s ideological framing of the 1991 story of boxer Sugar Ray Leonard’s admission of having physically abused his wife and abused cocaine and alcohol. We examined all news stories and editorials on the Leonard story in two major daily newspapers and one national sports daily. We found that all three papers framed the story as a “drug story,” while ignoring or marginalizing the “wife abuse” story. We argue that sports writers utilized an existing ideological “jocks-on-drugs” media package that framed this story as a moral drama of individual sin and public redemption. Finally, we describe and analyze the mechanisms through which the wife abuse story was ignored or marginalized.

Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in Indian Newspapers

2020 ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Nirmala Thirumalaiah ◽  
Arul Aram I.
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Human Life ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
The Times

Climate change conferences had wide media coverage – be it on newspaper, radio, television or the internet. The terms such as ‘climate change', ‘global warming', and ‘El Nino' are gaining popularity among the public. This study examines the news coverage of climate change issues in the major daily newspapers—The Times of India, The Hindu in English, and the Dina Thanthi, Dinamalar, and Dinamani in regional language (Tamil)—for the calendar years 2014 and 2015. This chapter describes how climate change influences nature and human life, and it is the basis for social and economic development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps the reader better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.

Woman-Battering, Child Abuse and Social Heredity: What is the Relationship?

1983 ◽  
Vol 31 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 147-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Stark ◽  
Anne Flitcraft
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Wife Abuse ◽  
Physically Abused ◽  
Male Batterer ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Woman Battering ◽  
Battered Mothers

This paper explores the relationship between child abuse and woman-battering. In so doing the authors test and reject the hypothesis, common in the violence literature, that ‘violence begets violence’. The vast majority of woman-batterers do not come from homes where they were beaten, and the vast majority of men who were beaten as children do not later batter their wives. Child abuse experts deny the importance of woman-battering. Interventions to stop child abuse focus on changing the ‘mother's’ behaviour. Wife abuse is, however, the major precipitating context of child abuse. Children whose mothers are battered are more than twice as likely to be physically abused than children whose mothers are not battered. When women are battered and children are abused it is usually the male batterer who is responsible for the maltreatment of the child. In other cases women may turn to child abuse when their own battering is already well-established. Battered women who abuse their children are more likely to be treated punitively than non-battered mothers who treat their children in a similar manner. They are, for instance, more likely to have their children removed. These findings have important implications for policy. The authors point out that those who are concerned about child abuse ‘would do well to look toward advocacy and protection of battered mothers as the best available means to prevent current child abuse as well as child abuse in the future’.

scholarly journals The challenges of anonymous source stories: A case study of Solomon Islands daily newspapers

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eddie T. Osifelo
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Public Figures

This article examines the use of anonymous sources in Solomon Star and Island Sun daily newspapers in Solomon Islands. It is aimed to explore why the two newspapers use anonymous sources in the news stories they publish. The two national newspapers face many challenges in maintaining a strong sense of ethics and accountability as most reporters are not qualified, and they compete in a small advertising market to generate revenue. Consequently, they also face challenges from politicians and other public figures over publishing anonymous sources in their papers. The challenges range from threats, intimidation, compensation demands to court battles. This study includes a content analysis of the daily papers and interviews with the editors of both papers and individuals who are affected by the issue.

South African newspaper coverage of COVID-19: A content analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Wasserman ◽  
Wallace Chuma ◽  
Tanja Bosch ◽  
Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam ◽  
Rachel Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
South African ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
English Language ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Front Page ◽  
News Stories ◽  
African Media ◽  
Negative Tone

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has led to unprecedented media coverage globally and in South Africa where, at the time of writing, over 20,000 people had died from the virus. This article explores how mainstream print media covered the COVID-19 pandemic during this time of crisis. The news media play a key role in keeping the public informed during such health crises and potentially shape citizens’ perceptions of the pandemic. Drawing on a content analysis of 681 front-page news stories across eleven English-language publications, we found that nearly half of the stories used an alarmist narrative, more than half of the stories had a negative tone, and most publications reported in an episodic rather than thematic manner. Most of the stories focused on impacts of the pandemic and included high levels of sensationalism. In addition, despite the alarmist and negative nature of the reporting, most of the front-page reports did not provide information about ways to limit the spread of the virus or attempt to counter misinformation about the pandemic, raising key issues about the roles and responsibilities of the South African media during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study shows that South African newspaper coverage of COVID-19 was largely negative, possibly to attract audience attention and increase market share, but that this alarmist coverage left little possibility for citizens’ individual agency and self-efficacy in navigating the pandemic.

Newspaper Policies on the Potential Merging of Advertising and News Content

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen T. Lacher ◽  
Herbert J. Rotfeld
Keyword(s):  
Editorial Content ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
News Content ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Advertising Content ◽  
Policies And Practices

Newspaper readers more readily trust news than advertising content. Therefore, journalists and media scholars consider it important that audiences can distinguish between news stories and advertisements. The authors collected survey responses from 321 daily newspapers on their standards for acceptable advertising for publication. The responses were analyzed to discover if advertising acceptance policies and practices reflect publications’ willingness to blur the lines between news and advertising sections. The data indicate that most newspapers are careful about letting advertisers pretend their messages are really news stories. In general, newspapers’ journalistic priorities for honesty influence their advertising policies. A few newspapers may use the editorial content to help sell advertising space and otherwise blur the lines between news and advertising content, but it is not a common and widespread problem.

scholarly journals Maintaining a politicised climate of opinion? Examining how political framing and journalistic logic combine to shape speaking opportunities in UK elite newspaper reporting of climate change

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
Political Framing ◽  
Elite Newspapers ◽  
Over Time

This article explores the importance of issue politicisation and mediation for the reporting of climate change in UK elite newspapers. Specifically, this investigates how journalistic logic mediates political framing to produce commentaries on and discussion about climate change in the news. In analysing elite newspaper coverage over time in this case, the article shows that (1) various frames introduce the issue as a legitimate problem within coverage and that (2) the news stories these inform are opened to specific commentaries according to ‘elite journalistic logic’. This configuration of coverage orders the speaking opportunities of established voices of science, politics and industry as well as those less established voices that enter to explain and qualify these elite accounts. The article concludes that the ingrained combination of issue politicisation and journalistic logic observed here will likely shape future elite reporting and those voices that it will include.

Examining Stereotypical Written and Photographic Reporting on the Sports Page: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Interscholastic Athletics

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Pedersen ◽  
Warren A. Whisenant
Keyword(s):  
Print Media ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Interscholastic Athletics ◽  
Interscholastic Sports ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Newspaper Reporting ◽  
One Year

The purpose of this study was to assess the presence of gender-biased or stereotypical coverage in the written and photographic newspaper reporting of interscholastic sports. Over a one-year timeframe, a total of 602 newspaper issues were randomly selected from Florida’s 43 daily newspapers. These daily issues contained 1792 articles and 827 photographs that fit the criteria for inclusion. The results of the study were consistent with previous research on the media’s stereotypical coverage of athletics. Both female and male athletics were over-represented in both written and photographic coverage of traditionally accepted “sex appropriate” sports. Male athletics were under-represented in both written and photographic coverage of “sex inappropriate” sports. Female athletics, when analyzing their participation in “sex inappropriate” sports, were under-represented in the photographic coverage but not in the written coverage. Overall, there existed hegemonic masculinity within the sports pages of the Florida print media.

Breaking news production processes in US metropolitan newspapers: Immediacy and journalistic authority

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikki Usher
Keyword(s):  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
News Production ◽  
Breaking News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Journalistic Authority

Incremental updates to breaking news stories online have become embedded in newspapers in the 24/7 online era. This article reviews four US metropolitan newspapers, using field observations and interviews to examine how journalists choose breaking news stories and their rationale for these continuous updates. Specifically, the article explores the connection between temporality and authority, positing that journalists use these updates to retain their role as authoritative truth-tellers in relation to audiences, the competition, and their own position in the profession. As newspaper coverage becomes more like local TV, these metropolitan newspaper journalists worry that a breaking news strategy, while potentially necessary, is also questionable and even potentially harmful, but nonetheless pursue it.

Climate Change and Sustainability Issues in Indian Newspapers

2022 ◽  
pp. 780-798
Author(s):  
Nirmala Thirumalaiah ◽  
Arul Aram I.
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Human Life ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
The Times

Climate change conferences had wide media coverage – be it on newspaper, radio, television or the internet. The terms such as ‘climate change', ‘global warming', and ‘El Nino' are gaining popularity among the public. This study examines the news coverage of climate change issues in the major daily newspapers—The Times of India, The Hindu in English, and the Dina Thanthi, Dinamalar, and Dinamani in regional language (Tamil)—for the calendar years 2014 and 2015. This chapter describes how climate change influences nature and human life, and it is the basis for social and economic development. The news coverage of climate change and sustainability issues helps the reader better understand the concepts and perspectives of environment. Climate change communication in regional newspapers and local news stories may increase the public's interest and knowledge level regarding climate change and sustainability issues.

Framing science and technology in the Canadian press

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edna F. Einsiedel
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Science Stories ◽  
The Media ◽  
Images Of Science ◽  
Source Use ◽  
Different Cultures

This paper reports on a content analysis of science coverage in seven major Canadian daily newspapers. The study focused specifically on the images of science promoted in the media via the topics portrayed more frequently, the patterns of source use, and types of news formats. Also examined were the stories' overall tone, the consequences of science presented, and the ways in which processes of science were described. Underlying these descriptions were the theoretical notions of `agenda-setting' and `framing'. Results showed that science and technology stories were not prominent in terms of their frequency and placement. They tended to be hard news stories—that is, they tended to be event-oriented, time-bound reports—and were more often originated by the wire services rather than by local efforts. The majority were medical stories, followed by environmental items. These science stories were predominantly positive in tone. Consequences portrayed tended to vary with type of story; that is, environmental stories were more likely to highlight negative consequences while stories about new technologies in such areas as communications and defence tended to emphasize positive outcomes. Finally, science stories were more likely not to include information on processes of science. Findings are discussed in terms of the different cultures of scientists and journalists, organizational constraints on media workers, and science as a news product.

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