African Television News Flow into Australia: A Case Study

1982 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek J Overton
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Television News ◽  
International News ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Tv News ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Positive Nature

A six months monitoring, May October 1979, of Tasmanian television news provides insights into the nature of African news. Shortcomings emerge such as the fact that while some regions received extensive attention the coup d'etat in Ghana went totally unreported. The television international news agencies, Visnews and UPITN are looked at. Though at the time of the monitoring Visnews was a monopoly in international TV news supply, UPITN has now broken into the Australian market. UPITN is of considerable interest to Africanists. Until 1979 it had covert ties with the South African Department of Information. Since television news reports on Africa dwellon crises, and provide little information of a positive nature, they project a decidedly negative image of Africa to the Australian public.

The global television news agencies and their handling of user generated content video from Syria

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Murrell
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
International News ◽  
Information Transparency ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Global Television

This article examines the role that the global television news agencies play in the handling of user generated content (UGC) video from Syria. In the almost complete absence of independent journalists, Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse are sourcing citizen videos from YouTube channels and passing it on to their clients. This article examines the verification processes that the agencies undertake to check on the veracity of this material and asks whether the agencies have abandoned independent journalism to activists. This article provides a comparative analysis of two months’ worth of UGC videos from Syria that were broadcast by the global news agencies after Russia joined the bombing campaign in Syria in late 2015. It analyses the content, verification processes and information that the agencies give their clients about this material. Through interviews with senior editors from the three organisations, questions of certainty versus probability are explored, along with ethical arguments about propaganda versus information transparency. The global news agencies are the engine drivers of international news coverage and their decisions and interpretation feed directly into the media ecology of mainstream and then alternative media.

Lawyers and Courts in French Popular Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Villez
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Television News ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Reports ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Over Time

From watching imported American popular culture dramas focusing on criminal justice, French television viewers have become confused as to how their own legal system really works. They have erroneous expectations of behaviours in court, like addressing judges by the wrong title, a title that comes from poor dubbing. Or they will refuse to answer questions, thinking they have Fifth Amendment protections, when they do not. They know very little of the organization of courtroom space. Since it is forbidden by law to take photographs or film trials in France, it is difficult to bring accurate court images to the public. The French produce police dramas, but very few series or made-for-television movies on justice, thus providing no alternatives for these erroneous criteria. They do, however, produce documentaries and docudramas dealing with past investigations or with timely issues such as recidivism or reintegration into society after prison. Documentaries, although pertinent, give viewers only one-shot access to the representations of justice and the legal professions they contain. The do not facilitate the acquisition over time of a legal culture. In addition to the confusion, the French have a negative image of lawyers as motivated by money and politics rather than justice. Films and French television fictions are responsible for this impression. Television news reports are short and give incomplete accounts of the law or on-going proceedings. Sometimes lawyers are interviewed in these reports, but never prosecutors or judges. Judges and prosecutors are magistrats, not lawyers. They train in different institutions from lawyers and are civil servants, so they are not as likely as lawyers to be making a lot of money, nor are they free to make public statements. The image of these professions is consequently more positive in the French imagination as portrayed in the popular culture.

scholarly journals Audiovisual infotainment in European news: A comparative content analysis of Dutch, Spanish, and Irish television news programs

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 1534-1551
Author(s):  
Amanda Alencar ◽  
Sanne Kruikemeier
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Television News ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
News Reports ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Comparative Content ◽  
News Programs

This study investigates to what extent audiovisual infotainment features can be found in the narrative structure of television news in three European countries. Content analysis included a sample of 639 news reports aired in the first 3 weeks of September 2013, in six prime-time TV news broadcasts of Ireland, Spain, and the Netherlands. It was found that Spain and Ireland included more technical features of infotainment in television news compared to the Netherlands. Also, the use of infotainment techniques is more often present in commercial, than in public broadcasting. Finally, the findings indicate no clear pattern of the use of infotainment techniques across news topics as coded in this study.

TV News – The Daily Horror?

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Unz ◽  
Frank Schwab ◽  
Peter Winterhoff-Spurk
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Television News ◽  
Presentation Mode ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Emotional Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tv News

In two studies we examined the influence of violent television news on viewers’ emotional experiences and facial expressions. In doing so, we considered formal and content aspects of news reports as well as viewers’ gratifications as independent variables. Analyses showed that violence in TV news elicits primarily negative emotions depending on the type of portrayed violence. Effects of presentation mode and of expected gratification on the viewers’ feelings are traceable. On the whole, fear is neither the only nor the most prominent emotion; rather, viewers seem to react to violence with “other-critical” moral emotions, including anger and contempt, reflecting a concern for the integrity of the social order and the disapproval of others. Emotions shown in reaction to the suffering of others, like sadness and fear, occur much more rarely. The results largely show a complex web of relations between media variables, viewers’ characteristics, and emotional processes.

The manufacture of an international news event: The day Kosovo was born

Journalism ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Paterson ◽  
Kenneth Andresen ◽  
Abit Hoxha
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
International News ◽  
International Media ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
News Event ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

When the new country of Kosovo declared its independence in 2008 it received extensive, but fleeting, international news coverage. This study seeks to provide insight into how an international news event was orchestrated by participants and how news coverage was planned and implemented by international media. We do so by investigating factors initiating, enabling, shaping, and limiting the global news coverage of this story. Particular attention is paid to the close relationship between local ‘fixers’ and media representatives, which is instrumental in most international news coverage, but which has received little scholarly examination; and to the influential role of the UK-based international television news agencies.

Comprehension of television news signed language interpreters

Interpreting ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Wehrmeyer
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Television News ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Limited Size ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Signed Language ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Main Factors

This questionnaire-based study evaluates interpretations of TV news broadcasts into South African Sign Language from the perspective of 360 adult Deaf respondents, who identify factors hindering comprehension. Methodologically, findings are based on both open-ended and closed questions. The sources of difficulty identified, together with viewer assessments of current interpreting services and viewer expectancy norms, are explored in relation to the profile of the Deaf target audience represented by the study sample. Despite potentially low literacy levels, the study found a stronger stated preference for subtitles than for signed interpretation. The limited size of the signed language screen inset and the type of signed language used by the interpreters were found to be the main factors limiting comprehension; to a lesser extent, problems can also be related to various features of the interpreters’ performance (facial expression, mouthing, sign articulation and general language proficiency), viewers’ insufficient background knowledge and signing skills, the difficulty of dividing attention between different forms of visual input, as well as the positioning of the screen inset showing the interpreter. The cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of the South African Deaf community poses a further challenge to interpreters. Recommendations for both interpreting practice and further research emerge from the discussion.

scholarly journals The Imaginary of an Invisible Enemy: The SARS-CoV-2 Virion on the Spanish TV News

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (47) ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
Isidro Jiménez-Gómez ◽  
Jaime López-Díez ◽  
Gema Bonales-Daimiel
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Television News ◽  
World Population ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Roughened Surface ◽  
The World

During epidemiological crises, tradi­tional media have played an essential informational role. In this paper we analyze the imaginary of COVID-19 and, specifically, of the representa­tion of the virion of the SARS-CoV-2 virus through news reports from the main Spanish TV channels. This virion, represented as an “invisible enemy” that has confined half of the world population, is presented in the news using 3D illustrations that highlight its roughened surface and elongated spikes ending in tentacles, an image that does not cor-respond to scientific illustrations. These and other attributes suggest that the imaginary of COV­ID-19 has inherited the imaginary of other previous episodes of coronavirus­es being not scientifically accurate but motivated by the journalistic objective of representing the main characteris­tics of the virus and the severity of the danger. Keywords: visual communication, health risk communication, television news, COVID-19, pandemic.    

AFP, EFE and dpa as international news agencies

Journalism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 1859-1876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmin Surm
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
International Markets ◽  
International Agency ◽  
International News ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
Anglo American

While earlier news agency studies have often concentrated on Reuters in the United Kingdom (now in Canada) and on the Associated Press in the United States as the leading international news agencies, there is less up-to-date research in English on international agencies outside the Anglo-American sphere. This article intends to help bridge that research gap and to analyse the recent development of Agence France-Presse in France, EFE in Spain and Deutsche Presse-Agentur in Germany. The article uses a case study approach, employing in-depth interviews with agency representatives. The results of the analysis show that all three agencies fulfil the criteria for an international agency. However, to do so, they all not only need a large domestic market, together with linguistic and cultural markets outside their home countries, but also state support, in case of Agence France-Presse and EFE. The findings emphasize the relevance of diversification and innovation in response to the changing structure and demands of national and international markets.

scholarly journals An analysis of The Star and The New Straits Times global Islamic news

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Siti Hajar Abd Aziz ◽  
Noor Mayudia Mohd Mothar ◽  
Shahril Anuar Abdul Ghalim
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
International News ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
World News ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative News ◽  
Islamic Countries

Malaysian media received their world news from the international news agencies; therefore readers are flooded with news reports structured by the Westerns point ofvielv. This paper wishes to investigate the portrayal of Islam in news selected and republished in the World section of The Star and the New Straits Times. A content analysis revealed that most ofthe stories on Islam are revolved around war, crime and politics. News on Islam has reported that this religion been relatively associated with violence; suggesting that the news agencies are bias as reporting on Islam, especially in the news republished by The Star. The main frames projected in The Star are "Islam is inherently violent" and "Islam does not go well with the concept of peace ". Although news reports in NST suggested that terrorism and wars are common in the Islamic countries, yet the tones suggested that Islam is not the source of the act of extremism. The mainframes in NST are "terrorism and warsare common in the Islamic countries, yet Islam is not to be blamed" and "the Muslim countries are slowly moving from extremism to peace and moderation. The finding indicates that there English newspapers are forced to republished negative news on Islam which will resulted in a misconception of Islam among the readers.

scholarly journals Rewolucja czy ewolucja? Przemiany polskiego newsa telewizyjnego

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 209-219
Author(s):  
Monika Grzelka ◽  
Agnieszka Kula
Keyword(s):  
Abrupt Change ◽  
Television News ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
News Report ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Tv Program ◽  
News Bulletin

Revolution or evolution? Transformation of TV news reportWe would like to analyze TV news report. This term is frequently used, the researchers do not specify which charakteristics of this genre are the most specific and essential. We understand news as a component of television newscast, regularly scheduled TV program. The form of the news bulletin is apparently unchanged because the sending-receiving mechanisms are constant, with telegenic newscasters, aproperly arranged studio, two-, three-minute long news reports, and the roles the spectators are cast in. These tricks, however, only serve the senders’ strategies, which make it necessary to define the television news report in adynamically changing media reality. Since the genre is an open and dynamic structure and seamlessly adapts to current needs, it is possible to approach it “diachronically” and present its evolution — mild, fluid, predictable change, and revolution — radical, abrupt change.

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