scholarly journals An Evaluation of English-to-Yoruba Translations of some Concepts by Selected Radio News Bulletins

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1.2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Samson Adeyeye Dare ◽  
Francis Yede
Keyword(s):  
Radio Stations ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Radio News

This study examines translations of selected official names/titles contained in news broadcasts in the Yorùbá-speaking part of Nigeria, interrogating their adequacy and appropriateness. Sixty-five concepts/titles extracted from one hundred news bulletins presented by five radio stations across the Yorùbá-speaking states of Nigeria are examined. The study is prompted by an intuitive feeling of inaccuracy and inappropriateness of important words in news broadcasts in Yorùbá and predicated upon the fact that misinformation can be as pernicious as lack of information. The renderings of the concepts in Yorùbá are compared with their original versions in English, revealing translation weaknesses such as semantic narrowing, expansion, wordiness, and sometimes even unwitting distortions. It concludes by emphasizing the adoption of appropriate translation strategies and a more rigorous engagement with the texts as a way of guarding against unintended distortions and misinformation.

Content and framing in radio news bulletins in urban and rural Hungary

2020 ◽  
pp. 026732312096683
Author(s):  
Henrik Hargitai
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The State ◽  
News Production ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Ecosystem Diversity ◽  
Rural Media ◽  
Radio News

This analysis provides a detailed snapshot of the radio news landscape in Hungary, a European-Union-member ‘illiberal state’ in mid-April 2018, a few weeks after the general election. In this study, we wished to quantitatively characterize radio news broadcasts. This is the first study that provides a detailed analysis of contemporary radio news output across all formats, target audiences, owners and regions in Hungary. The study uses several quantitative and geographic indicators that include objective elements such as news ecosystem diversity, local news production, news about local issues, sound bites, credited political press, news sections and more subjective news framing and a framing-based bias indicator. Our results show that the ideological diversity of radio news was far the highest in the Budapest region. MTVA, the state media provider had significantly more politically biased news than other stations. Local radios never criticized local public affairs. A few stations in Budapest did broadcast balanced, pro-opposition and critical news, but they were in minority over pro-government news items that dominated the rural media landscape with significantly less choice.

scholarly journals The Incumbency Bonus Revisited: Causes and Consequences of Media Dominance

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoffer Green-Pedersen ◽  
Peter B. Mortensen ◽  
Gunnar Thesen
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Government Responsibility ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Elite Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Radio News

The literature on political actors’ media appearances has repeatedly documented the so-called incumbency bonus (that parties and politicians in government have more media coverage than those in the opposition). This bias is normally attributed to news criteria that reflect political power, such as relevance and the elite status of actors. Supplementing existing perspectives, this study puts forward a new explanation of the incumbency bonus. The article argues that variations in the media dominance of incumbents are the result of the interplay between journalistic norms and political context. Outside election campaigns, political news is driven by the ‘watch dog’ norm. Thus the media focus on societal problems, which produces a critical emphasis on incumbent actors. But when party competition intensifies, either during campaigns or when issues become salient, the norm of objective and impartial journalism results in a more balanced coverage where challengers increase their presence. The argument receives support through multivariate models of incumbent and challenger appearances in Danish radio news broadcasts over a twenty-year period. Finally, in terms of democratic implications, the importance of the watchdog norm challenges the assumption that the incumbency bonus constitutes an electoral asset. Since media dominance is closely related to government responsibility for all kinds of problems, incumbent support is found to dwindle with increased media appearances.

scholarly journals Thuiskomen in Nederland: migratiegeschiedenis schrijven met Delpher

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-137
Author(s):  
Kees Teszelszky
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Migration History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Radio News

Delpher is the largest collection of full-text Dutch-language digitised historical news­papers, books, journals and copy sheets for radio news broadcasts available on a website. This article shows the possibilities of Delpher for doing research on Dutch-Hungarian relations by showing the results of an explorative study on a part of the migration history of one Hungarian family in The Hague. The author shows some very specific parts of the micro history of this family based on the content of newspaper advertisements. These sources were identified by addresses, telephone numbers and unique names.

Radio News: Its Past, Present, and Future

1946 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-145
Author(s):  
Paul W. White
Keyword(s):  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Radio News

This analysis of the problems and prospects of radio news presentation was presented by Mr. White at the 1946 AASDJ-AATJ convention. The author was director of CBS news broadcasts from 1934 until 1946.

scholarly journals Conversational humour in a Nigerian radio news programme: A case study of Lati inu aka aka Biodun/Kayode

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Blessing T. Inya ◽  
Onwu Inya
Keyword(s):  
Social Activities ◽  
Audio Recording ◽  
Generic Structure ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Speaker Meaning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Radio News

This paper investigates the Generic Structure Potential (GSP) of Lati inu aka aka Biodun/Kayode (LIABK), a Nigerian secondary gatekeeping radio news programme, with the aim of indicating the stages of the genre where conversational humour typically occurs, and then it analyses humour types in the data through the neo-Gricean concept of untruthfulness and pragmatic act theory. The data for the study constitute a ten hour audio recording of Lati inu aka aka Biodun/Kayode from two radio stations in Ekiti and Ondo States, South-Western Nigeria. The GSP of LIABK is constituted by five obligatory elements: Opening (O), Advertisement (A), Pre-news Presentation (PnP), News Presentation (NP) and Closing (C). The genre-based expectations for O, PnP and C, and then NP are to provide entertainment and information to the listeners respectively. Thus, humour typically occurs in the O, PnP, and C stages of the programme, and rarely occurs in NP. Four humour types are indicated: song-as-humour, absurdity, joint fantasising and speaker-meaning-telic humour respectively. While song-as-humour resists being neatly categorised as autotelic humour, absurdity and joint fantasising are easily characterised as thus. The pragmatic act analysis reveals the incremental, sequential and co-constructed nature of the humour types. Furthermore, the pragmemes of entertainment and offering of opinion by the news presenters constitute the affordances or genre-based expectations that constrain the social activities that constitute LIABK. The study contributes to the scholarship on secondary gatekeeping in Nigeria broadcast media, conversational humour and pragmatics.

An analysis of ten international radio news broadcasts in English to Africa

1983 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Boyd ◽  
Donald R. MacKay
Keyword(s):  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Radio News

scholarly journals Media: Tauiwi and Māori news: The indigenous view

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-112
Author(s):  
Ian Stuart
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
News Media ◽  
News Values ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Growth Area ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Radio News

Aotearoa/New Zealand is divided between the mainstream news media and the fast-gowing Māori media with different perspectives. New Zealand journalism graduates need to be taught different media systems and news values. In the New Zealand news media now and beyond 2000 the biggest growth area is in the Māori media. For many years Māori have been saying the news media ignores their perspective on news and is not reporting Māori events properly. The news media failed to take notice of these claims and in frustration Maori set up their own media. In the last 19 years—but more so in the past five years there has been a huge growth in the Māori news media. There are now nine Iwi newspapers, 26 Iwi radio stations, a Māori radio news network and several Māori magazines, the most prominent being Mana.

Arab language competition

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 381-384
Keyword(s):  
Radio Stations ◽  
News Broadcasts ◽  
Language Competition

News broadcasts in different languages constitute one of the principal activities of the ICRC Radio Service, and include, on the Swiss Shortwave, Arab language broadcasts, directed by Mr. I. Zreikat, certain of which are passed on, in copies, to radio stations in Arab speaking countries.

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