‘Journalism Alongside’: A Reflection on Teaching Journalism Through Community Engagement

This paper reflects on a service-learning public journalism project in which postgraduate journalism students have explored several ways to engage with and report alongside diverse communities. The aim of this paper has been to experiment with community journalism practices that give greater power to communities by prioritizing listening, reciprocity and bilateral engagement. By testing a ‘side-by-side’ storytelling process and prioritizing reflection on students’ relationships, dialogues and interactions with sources and communities, the community-focused and embedded project, has aimed to build students’ understanding of inclusive journalism, civic responsibility and intercultural communication as it relates to their practice.

Ujaran kebencian pada ruang – ruang digital

Today, advances in information and communication technology are rapidly showing that technology can make sustainable change for society and create diversity in the media. This is evidenced by changes in the availability of media that are historically scarce and limited access to the availability of outlets or media that are abundant. New media options are offered to audiences to channel their emotions. Citizen journalism, which is never as difficult as in the digital era, has become more diverse in terms of expression from citizens, such as the presence of hate speech. This term is being channeled through social media into the digital public space by people. So, enliven the digital public space before the information is inevitably disrupted. The current situation is changing from public satisfaction to group or individual satisfaction from joint hearings. Researchers see this empirical phenomenon as very important to study. Its purpose is to reveal how hatred is expressed in the digital age. The aim of this research is to express hatred in social media. This research shows that social media, a global public space, has been used by people to communicate their thoughts in several attempts. There is a community journalism philosophy, and there are common reasons for voicing hatred.Keywords: hoax; public sphere; digital; social media

Encroachers and victims: Framing of community dynamics by small-town journalists in Dharamshala, India

Dharamshala is home to the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. Its small-town journalism landscape is unique due to specific forms of community journalism practice adopted by Indian and Tibetan journalists. The Tibetan press there faces a paradox: simultaneously “local and community specific” for Tibetans-in-exile, “refugee voices” for the international community, and “foreign journalism” for Indians. This framing study identified interpretive packages in news coverage of conflict and integration between Dharamshala communities, by examining stories from community news outlets. Indian Hindi journalists enact a “community booster” role by actively framing issues of conflict in favor of the community, while Tibetan journalists’ approach was comparatively more balanced.

Shared Media Histories in the British Isles: Irish-Language Media, 1900–2018

This analysis of content, forums, and writing styles in the Irish language press spans the creation of an Irish reading public in the Irish Revival and Revolutionary period to the literary advances in the mid-twentieth century and the challenges of journalism in a minority language in twenty-first century Ireland. The first Irish language newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis (1899-1932) created a forum for public discourse and literature. Professional recognition aided high standard journalistic practices while provincial periodicals, An Lóchrann (1907), An Crann (1916), An Stoc (1917) and An Branar (1919) also brought new vision to an embryonic Irish language press. Despite a minority reading public, the Irish language print press carved its niche during the twentieth century and the English language press was a valuable ally in creating a modern Irish literature. Transnational journalism re-emerged in the 1980s with Domhnall Mac Amhlaigh’s columns from Liverpool published in the Irish Times. Foinse (1996) and Lá (1980) demonstrate that professional and community journalism had come of age by the end of the twentieth century. A necessary change of direction ensured that online journals, Beo.ie, Nósmag and Gaelscéal flagged a new era in twenty-first century Irish language journalism providing international dimensions.

JORNALISMO UNIVERSITÁRIO NO INTERIOR DA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL: O CASO EXPERIMENTAL DO RONDON NOTÍCIAS

Este artigo pretende discorrer sobre o portal Rondon Notícias, produto de mídia desenvolvido por alunos e professores do curso de Jornalismo da Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará (Unifesspa). Criado em 2018 com o objetivo primeiro de suprir as necessidades informativas de Rondon do Pará, cidade do sudeste do Pará, próxima à divisa dos estados do Tocantins e Maranhão, na Amazônia Oriental, funciona também como um laboratório de experiências em jornalismo comunitário, auxiliando os alunos a terem um contato mais imediato com a prática profissional e com a comunidade local. As reflexões teóricas versam sobre questões inerentes ao jornalismo no interior do Brasil, jornalismo comunitário e digital para se compreender a experiência empírica desse produto midiático. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Rondon Notícias; Jornalismo Comunitário; Portal de Notícias; Jornalismo no Interior; Jornalismo Digital. ABSTRACT This paper aims to discuss the Rondon Notícias site, a media product developed by students and teachers of the Journalism course at the Federal University of South and Southeast Pará (Unifesspa). Created in 2018 with the primary purpose of meeting the information needs of Rondon do Pará, a city in southeastern Pará, near the border of the states of Tocantins and Maranhão, in the Eastern Amazon, it also serves as a laboratory for experiences in community journalism, helping the students to have more immediate contact with professional practice and the local community. The theoretical reflections deal with issues inherent to journalism in the interior of Brazil, community and digital journalism to understand the empirical experience of this media product. KEYWORDS: Rondon Notícias; Community Journalism; News site; Journalism in the Country Interior; Digital journalism. RESUMEN Este artículo pretende discutir el portal Rondon Notícias, un producto desarrollado por estudiantes y profesores del curso de Periodismo en la Universidad Federal del Sur y Sudeste de Pará (Unifesspa). Creado en 2018 con el objetivo principal de satisfacer las necesidades de información de Rondon do Pará, una ciudad en el sureste de Pará, cerca de la frontera de los estados de Tocantins y Maranhão, en el este de la Amazonía, también sirve como laboratorio de experiencias en periodismo comunitario, ayudando a estudiantes para tener un contacto más inmediato con la práctica profesional y la comunidad local. Las reflexiones teóricas abordan cuestiones inherentes al periodismo en el interior de Brasil, el periodismo comunitario y digital para comprender la experiencia empírica de este producto mediático. PALABRAS CLAVE: Rondon Notícias; Periodismo comunitario; Portal de noticias; Periodismo en el interior; Periodismo digital.

Community Journalism

It is all too common to think of community journalism as being like all other types of journalism, just on a smaller scale. With the growth of the Internet and virtual community, this form of journalism cannot be distinguished solely by circulation size or geographic delineations. Within the larger journalism research sphere, community journalism remains underrepresented, even though the majority of publications in the United States can be classified as community journals, and throughout the world, small publications, both in print and online are commanding respect. If community media outlets are defined as having a circulation of lower than 50,000, then there are 7,184 community daily or weekly newspapers in the U.S. compared to only 4 publications with circulations of more than 500,000. Worldwide, data cannot be as easily condensed into percentages, but it is reasonable to think the figures are similar. Yet, media research typically focuses on the work and attitudes of the elites, i.e. the larger and best-known publications. Existing research on community journalism has identified key distinctions between community journalism and other types. First, community media focus on information connected to everyday life, and second, its media members tend to develop a closer, more intimate connection to the community they serve. The idea of closeness began with early research into the idea of community itself. Community as a concept revolves around emotional connection and membership. The two necessary elements for community formation are for a group of people to have something in common, and something that differentiates them from other groups. Community media build upon these concepts to give communities a voice. The audience for community news is often connected by an interest in, and emotional attachment to, a geographic area, which represents one form of community or a specific viewpoint, interest, or way of thinking which often represents virtual community. Both groups need journalists, who provide factual information on the community and enable and support strong community ties. Community journalists can also help build place attachment and create third places for community members to congregate and interact socially in.

The Eucla Recorder (1898 – 1900)

The rise of Eucla in the late nineteenth-century as a border telegraph station, located on the southern maritime border with South Australia, has been celebrated by Moyal (1984) for the cohesion and resilience of its skilled workforce. This article further explores the Eucla story, offering a vivid snapshot of the community’s preoccupations and challenges at the end of the 19th century through the pages of its monthly newspaper, the Eucla Recorder (1898–1900). Little if any attention has been paid to its community journalism, despite the Eucla Recorder’s unusual setting and distinctive mode of production. The following case study documents the life of the Eucla Recorder, extending its scope to the social and political attitudes of the telegraph staff which produced it.