scholarly journals Use of Agency materials in broadsheet dailies of Nepal

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Indra Dhoj Kshetri
Keyword(s):  
General Trend ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Content ◽  
International News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Total Coverage

The increase in broadsheet dailies in Nepal after the liberalization of media market in 1990s marked the change in the media content - a shift from earlier mission journalism to professionalism. Consequently, international news became the important feature of the dailies. Now, each Nepalese broadsheet daily has at least one page for the coverage of the international news obtained mainly through the news agencies: AP and AFP. In addition, large portion of sports, entertainment and biz stories come from these agencies. The corpus is enough to hint the importance of agency news. However, the subject matter has attracted very few researchers in Nepal. Only two studies are found on foreign news coverage in Nepali media (Adhikary, 2002, December 11; Kshetri, 2006). Acknowledging Nepali media's effort to localize and present separate but related news stories on few instances, Adhikary observes, "the general trend in presenting international news in Nepali media is just copying news stories from international agencies." The latter study, based on one week's frequency and breadth of international news in Nepali broadsheet dailies (in a particular week after US invasion in Iraq), found that the news from there made almost 70% of the total coverage of the international news. In this study, I incorporate larger corpus and analyze the finding using the concept advanced by Franklin (2005), and discuss if the result, in anyway, can be taken as a prospect for McJournalism. DOI: 10.3126/bodhi.v3i1.2811 Bodhi Vol.3(1) 2009 p.44-52

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.

scholarly journals Coronavirus on the Agenda of RIA Novosti and Reuters News Agencies

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-350
Author(s):  
Elena Martynenko ◽  
Evgeniya Stogova
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Media

The article presents the results of the comparative content analysis of publications by RIA Novosti and Reuters news agencies on the coronavirus pandemic. The purpose of the research is to identify the place of COVID-19 on the agenda of Russian and English-speaking regions' news agencies. The goal of the research is to determine the features of news media pandemic coverage. There is the hypothesis that coronavirus has taken a dominant position on the world agenda in all sectors of society: political, economic, social and cultural, transforming their priorities. The specifics of the work of news agencies have also undergone transformation. The relevance of the chosen topic is explained by the novelty of the phenomenon that was studied, as well as by lack of research of information agencies compared to such media subsystems as press, radio, television, and especially new media. In addition, there was much public and scientific discussion of coronavirus infection. The study found that COVID was a big story and dominated news coverage on the flagship websites of news agencies. The topic is at the top of Russian and English-language media agenda. At the same time, Reuters focused on international and economic discourse, while RIA Novosti preferred social and cultural issues. Nevertheless, both agencies focused on human interest stories; had inflammatory headlines and emotionally colored vocabulary, which is not typical for news stories. The topic of coronavirus is expected to remain a big story on the media landscape at least for the first part of 2021.

scholarly journals Application of data analytics for research of digital administrative services in Bulgaria

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 ◽  
pp. 02008
Author(s):  
Plamen Milev
Keyword(s):  
Data Analytics ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

The article examines issues on the topic of digital administrative services in Bulgaria. In this sense, the paper presents the opportunities for application of data analytics, which are suitable for research of this type of services. In this case, the article uses data from online media content on the researched topic. The main purpose of the article is to apply opportunities for data analytics and to present the relevant analysis on the topic of digital administrative services in Bulgaria. To achieve its goal, the article uses various scientific methods, including study, analysis, research, modeling and experimentation. The results support the main hypothesis of the study, namely defining the benefits of applying data analytics to research the media positioning of digital administrative services in Bulgaria. In conclusion, the paper points out the opportunities for improvement of the research in the subject area with the application of the respective data analysis.

Presidential Rhetoric and News Rhetoric

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Ying Roselyn Du
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Presidential Rhetoric ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
News Source ◽  
Shaping Process ◽  
The Media

This study examines the role of U.S. presidents as a news source in the media agenda shaping process. DICTION text-analysis software was used to analyze transcripts of U.S. presidents' state of the union addresses and related news coverage from 1981 to 2007. DICTION software calculated scores for five major dimensions of content in the addresses and related news stories. Results revealed that the addresses and related news coverage contained dissimilar rhetoric, suggesting that, overall, the presidents had little influence on independent media outlets in that regard.

scholarly journals Representation of Youth in the Public Debate in Greece, Italy, and Spain: Does the Political Leaning of Newspapers Have Any Effect?

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 620-637
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Bosi ◽  
Anna Lavizzari ◽  
Stefania Voli
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Differences

Recent scientific studies have reached the near-unanimous conclusion that the media produce a stereotypical representation of young people. However, research in this area has not often scrutinized whether there are any significant differences in the coverage of the subject matter. Notably, this article examines whether the political leaning of newspapers has any impact on the levels of plurality in the news coverage of youth. On the basis of political claim analyses of six newspapers from three countries (Greece, Italy, and Spain), we find that the coverage of youth in the public debate is very similar if we compare center-right to center-left newspapers. This suggests that the social construction of the concept of youth dominates in the adult world, regardless of any political differences. Nonetheless, differences emerge when young people are given the opportunity to speak for themselves; center-left newspapers are more likely to recognize the agency of, and give a voice to, young people.

Gendered Media and Political Communication in Africa

2017 ◽  
pp. 1073-1089
Author(s):  
Juliet Wambui Macharia
Keyword(s):  
Political Violence ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
African Countries ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Female Journalists ◽  
The Media ◽  
African Media ◽  
Political Scene

The African media landscape has grown tremendously in the last 20 years and currently, communication channels are more accessible to various groups, even those previously marginalised in the society. Access to communication channels is important as the media sets the agenda and guides everyday discourses and interactions. However, of concern to this paper is the analysis of the African media landscape that is highly gendered; whereby media owners and practitioners are predominantly male. As a result, the message design and communication favours male over female political candidates because a lot of propaganda and persuasion is often used to entice the electorate. The chapter discusses how political images seen on television are often centered on the male dominant figure in politics, while the women are often discussed from the periphery. Due to a mainly male dominated political scene, women shy away from participating and those who chose to get involved, often have to fight against societal stereotypes enabled by the media which inovertly propagates the notion that competitive politics is a manly affair. In many African countries therefore female stereotyping is prevalent in the media during electioneering period. An analysis of news coverage shows that among the news stories reported by male journalists on television, 76 per cent were often men subjects while only 29 percent of stories reported by female journalists were about women in politics. Even when women featured in the stories in the centre pages and at the end of news bulletins, they were about them as victims of political violence during campaigns rather than males/females participating in campaigns as future leaders and decision makers.

scholarly journals Information Quality in Latin American Digital Native Media: Analysis Based on Structured Dimensions and Indicators

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Rodríguez-Hidalgo ◽  
Diana Rivera-Rogel ◽  
Luis M. Romero-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
International News ◽  
Digital Native ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Data Journalism ◽  
Statistical Indicators

The current communicative ecosystem has profoundly transformed journalistic work and the media, generating with great eagerness the emergence of digital native media that do not follow the logic of their conventional peers. Although the advent of these media is not entirely negative, as they create multiple voices that contribute to pluralism, their quality has undoubtedly been questioned on several academic fronts. This work analyzes the most important Latin American digital native media by number of accesses (traffic), using a taxonomy of evaluation of dimensions of the informative quality, in which aspects such as informative sources, uses of international news agencies, correction of contents and factuality levels, ideological plurality in their opinion contents, among others, are taken into consideration. Of the emerging results, the ‘use of statistical indicators’ was the least rated (32.5%), mainly due to a lack of data journalism in the media studied. It is also worth noting that the indicator ‘comments and monitoring’ obtained the second-lowest rating, indicating an absence of conversation between the media and its audience through the comments section of each content.

Mecha-Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Andre Søraa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Social Media Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Media ◽  
Robotic Technologies

How are robots, androids and cyborgs presented and received in the media? This chapter applies a social media analysis to this question by using empirical research on news stories that feature robotic technologies to see how robots are presented, consider what reporters focus on when writing about robots, and review how the public discusses and receives robots. The theoretical framework utilised focuses on how robot narratives are framed, how robot controversies are presented in different media, and how robots are domesticated through the media. The two main cases are a “robot hotel” in Japan, and a “killer robot” at a Volkswagen factory in Germany. News coverage of both stories shows widely differing ways for how the robot-narrative is framed.

The image of the EU in Polish magazines. Based on the analysis of the contents of “Polityka”, “Wprost” and “Newsweek” published in 2013

2016 ◽  
pp. 68-89
Author(s):  
Ewa Stasiak-Jazukiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Information Policy ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Framing Analysis ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Eu

The article discusses the results of a study carried out within a broader research project on the crisis of communication in the EU. The aim of the project was to confirm or falsify a thesis on crisis of communication in the EU. The range of communication activities undertaken by the organisation’s structure was determined, communication strategy of the EU was studied, the use information channels, and the content of communications Polish media was analysed. The subject of this article is the image of the EU emerging in 2013 from “Newsweek Polska”, “Polityka” and “Wprost” and the convergence of their media content with the objectives of the EU information policy. Quantitative and qualitative content analyses were used as well as framing analysis, identifying the interpretation schemes used by journalists. Based on the agenda-setting theory the media agenda was set and juxtaposed with a timeline of events in the EU in year 2013.

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.

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