scholarly journals Hope or Fear? A Contemporary Portrayal of Immigrants in British Regional Newspapers

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Indeevari Dodantenna
Keyword(s):  
Population Decline ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
City Regions ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Uk

How does the press represent immigrants? The leading scholarship in framing studies argues that immigrants are mostly represented negatively in the national press, which aligns with the dominant discourse. But does that negativity exist in the local newspapers too? Focusing on the immigration debate surrounding Brexit, the following study was set out to examine ten local newspapers from the most populous city regions in the UK during three snapshot time points from November 2018 to April 2019. The six-week period, which was mainly based on Brexit milestones, served as data collection points. The evidence suggests that local press coverage largely portrays immigrants in a favourable manner, proving support and highlighting their need and contribution. The said positivity was closely followed by the threat frame which depicts sentiments of fear, panic, burden and hostility. However, a shift in the positive discourse, towards threat, was noted during the mid-time point that was mainly fueled by the elite rhetoric. Among the findings, the Scottish open arms policy towards the immigrants is very significant. It is mainly linked to their local concerns, such as labour shortages and population decline. While the study contributes to the growing literature in local media research, it also highlights how domestic needs could push back on the dominant discourse.

scholarly journals Confronting the digital mob: Press coverage of online justice seeking

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 597-612
Author(s):  
Daniel Trottier
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Press ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Uk

This article offers an exploratory account of press coverage of digitally mediated vigilantism. It considers how the UK press renders these events visible in a sustained and meaningful way. News reports and editorials add visibility to these events, and also make them more tangible when integrating content from social media platforms. In doing so, this coverage directs attention to a range of social actors, who may be perceived as responsible for these kinds of developments. In considering how other social actors are presented in relation to digital vigilantism, this study focusses on press accounts of those either initiating or being targeted by online denunciations, and also on a broader and often amorphous range of spectators to such events, often referred to as ‘internet mobs’. Relatedly, this article explores how specific practices related to digital vigilantism such as denunciation are expressed in press coverage, as well as coverage of motivations by the public to either participate or facilitate such practices. Reflecting on how the press represent mediated denunciation will illustrate not only how tabloids and broadsheets frame such practices, but also how they take advantage of connective and data-generating affordances associated with social platforms.

Rose-Colored Glasses: Competing Media Perceptions of the Pete Rose Betting Scandal

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Craig Greenham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Major League Baseball ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Press ◽  
Major League ◽  
Market Coverage ◽  
The City

In a 2004 autobiography, legendary player Pete Rose confessed to gambling on baseball games, even those that included his Cincinnati Reds. The passage of time has clarified much about the betting scandal that plagued Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1989. Over the course of the six-month saga, Rose’s denials and his adversarial relationship with the Commissioner’s Office shrouded MLB’s investigation in controversy. This study explores the press coverage of the scandal in 1989 and determines that the Cincinnati press was more sympathetic to, and supportive of Rose than out-of-market coverage, represented in this investigation by The New York Times. These findings are consistent with previous research that indicates that local media favors hometown institutions during times of crisis. This study expands that theory by demonstrating that favoritism extends to individual players whose connection to the city is significant, and furthers our understanding of the media’s role in shaping the narratives of scandal.

Region Community in Communication Theory

2014 ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Sandra Murinska-Gaile
Keyword(s):  
Communication Theory ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Individual Interaction ◽  
Perfect Model ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
The Press ◽  
Community Identification

The aim of the report is to determine how local and regional newspapers represent local communities and how their communicative integration has been promoted. Mass media, establishing community cognition about its existence, involvement into the community, identification and belonging to the community, represent a perfect model of interaction between community and communication. During the content analysis of the press publications of local newspapers of Latgale region the typological characteristics and classification are emphasized, the role of the press in the development of the region inhabitants is defined, the direction and structure of the editorial board activities, newspapers’ content, authors and genres are inspected. The practice of local journalism varies in different places; there are some common trends but specific characteristics are noticed in each local community. They are being affected by social context, which is characterized by regional values and culture, since they correspond to the community and individual interaction as well. It is possible to see differences both in community structure, spread and in expressions of local newspapers within the region.

scholarly journals Where Have All the Stories and Voices Gone in Local Newspapers? The Effect Falling Advertising Revenues and the Rise of the Web Have Had on English Regional Newspapers

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-238
Author(s):  
Richard Bowyer
Keyword(s):  
Local People ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
News Content ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Regional Newspaper ◽  
The Web

The regional newspaper industry in the UK is in freefall with sales down more than 60 percent in 10 years. With this decline has come cost-cutting. This study looks at how these cuts have manifested themselves in terms of the number of news stories now being printed in newspapers and the number of local people being quoted in the newspapers. The study has looked at a number of regional newspapers across 30 years to show the effect of the changing face of the newspaper business as the audience and advertising have moved online. The research includes interviews with experts on whether story count mattered and if fewer stories and local voices have damaged the product. This paper finds that generally newspaper companies with a web-first culture have been forced to reduce their local news content in their printed products as they concentrate their resources online. While fewer stories and voices cannot be blamed for the complete demise of the newspapers, it is a consequence of cost-cutting and disadvantages the product. Opinions do vary on the needs for high story count, but this paper shows that most experts believe it is important and that without it, printed newspapers have been damaged. Keywords: newspapers, regional, decline, stories, quotes

scholarly journals The Sourcing of Stories on Sugar and the Supermarket Industry in the British Press

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Topić
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
The Press ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Supermarket Industry ◽  
British Press ◽  
Business In Society ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Mind

This paper looked at the nature of sourcing stories in the press coverage of the anti-sugar debate and the supermarket industry in the UK. The research design was a mixed-method study founded in an interpretivist epistemology. Content analysis has been conducted on 454 articles from national and regional press and this analysis provided an answer on who influences the news agenda. Qualitative interviews with journalists explored what sources journalists use when selecting and sourcing stories. The findings show that NGOs are regularly used as a source for stories in the British press, while the news agenda is largely driven by the self-interest of journalists, which corresponds with agenda of the NGO Action on Sugar. Journalists also largely rely on contacts when sourcing stories, but NGOs are present in the mind of journalists when deciding how to source stories. In addition, views of journalists correspond with views of NGOs on the role and position of the business in society.

scholarly journals Katoikonyms in the Texts of Volgograd Regional Newspapers Issued in 1985: Peculiarities of Use

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Svetlana Kirillova
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Functional Organization ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Volgograd Region ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Russian Language ◽  
Different Levels

The article considers the issues of structural, sematic and functional organization of regional katoikonymicon. Varieties of residents nominations are studied in the texts of local newspapers dated by the beginning of perestroika in the USSR. Having studied word-formation and local katoikonymic paradigms in local media of Bykovsky and Kalachevsky districts of Volgograd region, the author identifies the suffixes that dominate in formation of local dwellers names, distinguishes derivational variability of katoikonyms. The article describes some regularities in composing residents nominations grammar forms, which are implemented in the regional katoikonymicon and are naturally typical of the Russian language. Some occasional instances of katoikonyms coming into the general language use are stated and interpreted. By means of contextual analysis some meanings of the studied nominations are identified and formulated. The comparison of empirical data and materials of the lexicographic sources, published in the near chronological periods, is carried out. The list of meanings assigned to the nominations of Kalachevsky and Bykovsky districts dwellers of Volgograd region is katoikonymy is specified and systematized as belonging to the Russian katoikonymicon. The paper contains quantitative data, which reflect similarities and differences in the use of katoikonyms in each of the considered media. The identified peculiarities belong to different levels of the language.

General Sports Magazines and “Cap’n Bob”: The Rise and Fall of sportsweek

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Horne
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
British Society ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Consumer Magazine ◽  
The Uk

This paper directs attention to a sector of the press that is largely ignored by academic media research: weekly and monthly sports magazines. The birth and death of the British general sports magazine, Sportsweek, is considered as a case study from which some critical observations can be made about research into sport and the mass media on both sides of the Atlantic. The magazine industry as a whole is little discussed in mainstream media studies, even though magazines are highly significant in terms of the reproduction and sustenance of what has been called consumer culture (Featherstone, 1983, 1987; Winship, 1983). For this reason, and because most media sport research tends to focus on the textual rather than on production and appropriation, this paper outlines the economic forces shaping the consumer magazine sector in Britain and provides a comparative account of the sports magazine and press industry in the USA, Europe, and the UK. The case study of Sportsweek is considered in terms of its implications for understanding sport and leisure culture in contemporary British society.

The Migration-Crime Nexus and the Press in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-181
Author(s):  
Alexander A Caviedes
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Press ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Over Time

This article explores the link between migrants and crime as portrayed in the European press. Examining conservative newspapers from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2016, the study situates the press coverage in each individual country within a comparative perspective that contrasts the frequency of the crime narrative to that of other prominent narratives, as well as to that in the other countries. The article also charts the prevalence of this narrative over time, followed by a discussion of which particular aspects of crime are most commonly referenced in each country. The findings suggest that while there has been no steady increase in the coverage of crime and migration, the press securitizes migration by focusing on crime through a shared emphasis on human trafficking and the non-European background of the perpetrators. However, other frames advanced in these newspapers, such as fraud or organized crime, comprise nationally distinctive characteristics.

scholarly journals Content online and the end of public media? The UK, a canary in the coal mine?

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1202-1219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Collins
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Direct Payment ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
Public Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Pervasive Access

Online delivery of content has changed media advertising markets, undermining the business model which has underpinned provision of ‘public media’. Three business models have sustained mass media: direct payment for content, payment for advertising and state subsidy, and the author argues, contrary to others’ claims, that advertising finance has made possible production and provision of high-quality, pluralistic and affordable public media. In consequence, substitution of the internet as an advertising medium has undermined the system of finance which, in the UK and societies like it, sustained public media. Global advertising revenues have both fallen and been redistributed, though to differing degrees in different countries, with particularly deleterious effects on local newspapers. Prices have risen, original content production has fallen and reversion to a direct payment-for-content business model is pervasive. And this despite the growth of new entrant online media and established publicly funded media (notably public service broadcasters) resulting in the likelihood of a continued general worsening of affordable and pervasive access to high-quality and diverse public media.

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