The Feminine Voice in Global Journalism: The Example of Ukraine

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Madeleine Wiart
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Feminine Voice ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
American Media ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Ukraine Crisis

This study is designed to identify a discrepancy, if any, between the number of female and male journalists reporting on the crisis in Ukraine. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, as well as primary and secondary research, the following paper attempts to bring attention to gendered differences in crisis reporting, and explain how those gendered differences affect the interpretation of a conflict. Previous research shows women are more inclined to cover crises from a human interest or human suffering standpoint, whereas men cover crises through politics and violence. The study concludes that while the majority of journalists reporting on the Ukraine crisis for The New York Times are male, it does not find a concrete correlation between the primary focus of the sample articles and the gender of the journalist. The analysis provides a starting point for future research, as well as a new perspective to a modern conflict heavily covered by North American media.

A corpus-based study of representation of Islam and Muslims in American media: Critical Discourse Analysis Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 174804852098744
Author(s):  
Ke Li ◽  
Qiang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Strong Conclusion ◽  
American Media

Media representations have significant power to shape opinions and influence public response to communities or groups around the world. This study investigates media representations of Islam and Muslims in the American media, drawing upon an analysis of reports in the New York Times over a 17-year period (from Jan.1, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2016) within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis. It examines how Islam and Muslims are represented in media coverage and how discursive power is penetrated step by step through such media representations. Most important, it investigates whether Islam and Muslims have been stigmatized through stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. The findings reveal that the New York Times’ representations of Islam and Muslims are negative and stereotypical: Islam is stereotyped as the unacclimatized outsider and the turmoil maker and Muslims as the negative receiver. The stereotypes contribute to people’s prejudice, such as Islamophobia from the “us” group and fear of the “them” group but do not support a strong conclusion of discrimination.

To Eat or Not to Eat: Framing of GMOs in American Media and Its Effects on Attitudes and Behaviors

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 747-775
Author(s):  
Ivanka Pjesivac ◽  
Marlit A. Hayslett ◽  
Matthew T. Binford
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Genetically Modified ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
American Media ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
The Impact

This study examined the framing of genetically modified organisms in two American newspapers, The New York Times and the Washington Post (2000-2016) and tested the impact of risk and opportunity framing on attitudes and behaviors regarding genetically modified organisms. The content analysis ( N = 165) showed that the two newspapers did not have a dominant frame type in their coverage. A randomized three-condition experiment ( N = 182) showed that the type of framing significantly affected individuals’ attitudes and was able to change them. The type of framing affected individuals’ behavioral intentions through postexposure attitudes but was not able to significantly affect actual behavior.

scholarly journals Voices in the Storm: The Lost Discourse of Climate Change in Hurricanes Harvey and Irma

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
B.F. Battistoli ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Research Question ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Hurricane Irma

This study sought to answer the research question: How did media address climate change in reporting on Hurricanes Harvey and Irma? A content analysis was performed on the coverage of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma over a six-week timeframe by two national newspapers, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, and two local newspapers, the Houston Chronicle for Hurricane Harvey and the Tampa Bay Times for Hurricane Irma. A keyword analysis yielded 630 news articles (N=630), of which only 23 (3.65%) mentioned “climate change,” “global warming,” or both. Language that addressed these terms was coded on a Likert Scale (0-5, negative to positive), yielding a median score of 3.44, “slightly positive.” An extensive literature review and discussion of the findings and implications for future research are included. Keywords: Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, climate change, global warming, newspaper content analysis.

The political implications of epigenetics

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shea K. Robison
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Health Domains

Background. Epigenetics, which is just beginning to attract public attention and policy discussion, challenges conventional understanding of gene-environment interaction and intergenerational inheritance and perhaps much more besides.Question. Does epigenetics challenge modern political ideologies?Methods.I analyzed the narratives of obesity and epigenetics recently published in the more liberalNew York Timesand the more conservativeWall Street Journal. For the years 2010 through 2014, 50 articles on obesity and 29 articles on epigenetics were identified, and elements in their causal narratives were quantitatively analyzed using a well described narrative policy framework.Findings.The narratives on obesity aligned with the two newspapers’ reputed ideologies. However, the narratives on epigenetics aligned with neither ideology but freely mixed liberal and conservative elements.Discussion.This small study may serve as a starting point for broader studies of epigenetics as it comes to affect political ideologies and, in turn, public policies. The narrative mix reported here could yet prove vulnerable to ideological capture, or, more optimistically, could portend the emergence of a “third-way” narrative using epigenetics to question atomistic individualism and allowing for less divisiveness in public-health domains such as obesity.

How We Know What We Know about Pakistan: New York Times news production, 1954–71

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 1598-1625
Author(s):  
YELENA BIBERMAN
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
News Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
News Production ◽  
Foreign Correspondents ◽  
American Media ◽  
Foreign News ◽  
High Uncertainty

AbstractThis article explores public knowledge creation by examining how the New York Times produced Pakistan news between 1954 and 1971, the formative period of United States of America (USA)–Pakistan relations. These years encapsulate not only the heyday of cooperation between the two governments, but also the American public's first major introduction to the South Asian country by the increasingly intrepid news media. A leader in shaping that introduction was the New York Times. While most studies of the American media focus on measuring the effect of news exposure and content on public opinion, this article focuses on the theoretically underexplored aspect of news production: foreign news gathering. With a lens on South Asia, it shows that foreign news gathering involves the straddling of on-the-ground political and logistical constraints that generate an atmosphere of high uncertainty. By exploring the limitations on news gathering faced by America's leading newspaper's foreign correspondents in Pakistan in the 1950s and 1960s, this article identifies an important historical source of the ambiguity characterizing USA–Pakistan relations. The findings are based on recently released archival material that offers rare insight into the news-production process.

News media and the racialization of protest: an analysis of Black Lives Matter articles

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 720-735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Leopold ◽  
Myrtle P. Bell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
News Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Black Lives Matter

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine coverage of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in seven US-based newspapers to determine whether the protest paradigm, “a pattern of news coverage that expresses disapproval toward protests and dissent,” and other marginalizing techniques are present, and racialized. Design/methodology/approach Relevant articles published during a six-month period of 2014 near the death of Michael Brown were retrieved from the selected outlets, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Textual and content analyses were performed. Findings The articles heavily followed the paradigm. An additional characteristic, blame attribution, was also identified. Language of crime, lawlessness, violence, blame for nearby acts of violence, and inflammatory quotes from bystanders and official sources were often present. There was little discussion of key issues associated with the formation of BLM. Research limitations/implications Mainstream outlets rather than social media or alternative outlets were examined. Future research should study coverage of BLM in other outlets. Practical implications Measures to avoid marginalizing protests and racialization of coverage, including increased diversity in the newsroom and monitoring for racialized language are suggested. Social implications Racialization of news and coverage of BLM has widespread negative consequences, such as association of Blacks with criminality that may affect their quality of life. The protest paradigm has the ability to squelch participation in social movements, which have the possibility to bring about needed social change. Originality/value This interdisciplinary paper highlights the important role of mainstream media and news routines in affecting the BLM movement. It uses diversity research to make recommendations for media practitioners to avoid racialization of news.

Soviet Policy Toward National Communism: The Limits of Diversity

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Morris
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Order ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Communist Manifesto ◽  
National Affair ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Socialist Movement ◽  
The Right

On one thing the Soviet and Yugoslav Communists agree: “national communism” is a contradiction in terms. “The very expression ‘national communism’,” say the Soviet theoreticians, “is a logical absurdity. By itself communism is really international and it cannot be conceived otherwise.” Tito was just as emphatic when he told New York Times commentator, C. L. Sulzberger, that “national communism doesn't exist. Yugoslav Communists too are internationalists.”That the Soviet and Yugoslav positions appear to agree on this point is no accident. Marxist theory has never acknowledged a genuine alternative to socialism or capitalism, and socialism was a profoundly international idea. But in its effort to abolish national strife, create a world-wide economic and social order, and establish political and social internationalism, the socialist movement had to start within the framework of the nation-state. In practice, therefore, socialism was mainly a national affair. The gulf between the necessary national starting point of the socialist movement and its international ideal was, to put it mildly, considerable. Though the international working class solidarity of the Communist Manifesto has been emptied of plausibility by the events of the last hundred years—not least of all by the abandonment in practice of internationalism in 1914 by the socialist movement—internationalism is a fetish to which even the right-wing socialist makes his obeisance.

scholarly journals Construction of Huawei’s Image in News Reports: Take China Daily and The New York Times for Example

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Kuizi Ma ◽  
Ya Xiao
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
American Media ◽  
China Daily

In recent years, as China’s largest smartphone company, Huawei’s position in the international market has gradually increased and received widespread attention from foreign media. The rapid development of China’s impact on the hegemony of the US has also changed the direction of US media’s reporting on Chinese companies. At this stage, it is meaningful to study the image of Huawei in both Chinese and US media reports. Therefore, based on the corpus approach and critical discourse analysis, this paper builds two corpora of China Daily (576 reports with 438,261 words) and The New York Times (429 reports with 347,025 words). It is found that (1) both sides acknowledge that Huawei ranks top in world telecommunication technology, particularly in the 5G network; (2) two newspapers focus on different aspects in their reports. For the Chinese media, Huawei’s technological prowess, innovation capacity in the global market, cooperation with many other European and African countries are given more attention, while for the American media, more focus is shifted to Huawei’s threat to national security; (3) two newspapers hold different attitudes towards the rise of Huawei. China Daily’s positive construction of Huawei’s image is obvious. While for the American media, the Trump administration is more likely to project a threatening image of Huawei; (4) the reporting frameworks and the styles of materials selected differ in two newspapers. China Daily’s framework concentrates on “Huawei” itself, while The New York Times tends to construct a reporting framework from multiple perspectives from the third-party.

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