Independent Newspaper Research Articles

“Ka Aina No Ka Poe o Hawaii”

Abstract This article examines the independent newspaper Huli, published at the birth of the modern Hawaiian sovereignty movement from 1971 to 1973 by the grassroots political organization Kokua Hawaii. Reading through the surviving issues of Huli available in institutional archives, the article considers the variety of perspectives promoted within its pages to position Kokua Hawaii in relation to international understandings of anticolonial liberatory politics of the Global South. Revisiting prominent critiques of Kokua Hawaii, it argues that insights provided by Huli trouble lasting understandings of the organization and underscore the periodical’s relevance for navigating rising waves of political struggle in Hawaiʻi today. Moreover, the article contends that Huli—a timely revival of Hawaiʻi’s politically engaged print culture that flourished during the nineteenth century—offers one foundation for constructing a counterhegemonic lineage of socially concerned artists and cultural workers in Hawaiʻi. Through an analysis of Huli’s content, imagery, and context of production, the article uses the name of the periodical and its call to “huli” as a means of tracking the influence of Kokua Hawaii’s politics and aesthetics into the present, with Huli acting as a medium for insurgent inspiration.

Advertisements for prescription-free drugs and dietary supplements in the Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung (German Pharmacist Journal).

The Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung (DAZ, German Pharmacist Journal) is an independent pharmaceutical newspaper focusing on science and practice, mainly for the profession of pharmacist. In this study, drug advertising in the DAZ was analysed. To our knowledge, there is little scientific data available on drug advertising in professional journals. We assumed that professional journals provide particularly good background information on the advertised drugs because they are targeted to specialists. All non-prescription medicines and preparations that fall under the Medicines Advertising Law (Heilmittelwerbegesetz, HWG) were studied. The Medicines Advertising Law regulates the legal procedure for advertising medicinal products in Germany. The 167 product advertisements from the 52 issues of 2021 were analysed and checked for compliance with the Medicines Advertising Law. We identified significant deficiencies in compliance with the legislation. These included the lack of mandatory information required by the Medicines Advertising Law, for example the indication of adverse drug reactions and the listing of contraindications. There are very few peer-reviewed references on the efficacy of the advertised preparations. A scientific validation was carried out using the PubMed database, with the result that scientific information was available only for 1/3 of the advertisements. In addition, the appearance and target groups as well as social structures, images and feelings conveyed by the advertising were analysed. This study provides insights into the mechanisms of drug advertising in professional journals, which have not yet been researched to any great extent. Even in professional journals, pharmacological evidence plays a much smaller role than marketing, psychology and traditional social values. It seems that drug manufacturers deliberately ignore the German Medicines Advertising Law to advertise their products in the best possible way. Stricter legal controls should be put in place to prevent this practice and protect consumers from misinformation. This will increase drug safety.

Press Insecurity during Anglophone War Coverage in Cameroon: Ways to Protect Marginalized Journalists

As the global media community prepares for World Press Freedom Day 2025 culminating and the Academic Conference on Safety of Journalists, attacks on journalists and the profession are diversified as never before. Military regimes and democratic governments prevent journalists from accessing and reporting news correctly. That scenario exists in the Republic of Cameroon (aka LRC), where some eight million predominantly English-speaking people in Cameroon and abroad struggle for recognition as a separate nation from the Republic of Cameroon. The struggle has been disfigured by misinformation on social media platforms, unreliable reporting of the crises, and journalists having limited access to news and information sources. LRC’s military and pro-independence fighters often prevent journalists from reaching affected groups, particularly refugee inhabitants facing inhumane treatment by the military, thus possibly fearing backlashes from government officials, human rights advocates, the United Nations Human Rights Council, pro-independence groups, and Free Press Unlimited.Using straw polls, email surveys, and telephonic surveys carried out periodically between January 2022 and March 2024 on news reporters and journalists serving four independent newspapers in the Anglophone region, this presentation shall highlight newsgathering and reporting practices during the war. This paper offers possible solutions for the gridlock inter-alia: (i) ways of re-establishing integrity in journalism as a credible news bank and (ii) how journalists in nations excluded from mainstream social, economic, educational, and cultural life should be protected against punitive activities facilitated by international partners, particularly donors.

Peculiarities and possibilities of independent newspapers: on the basis of «Khaluk» newspaper examples

Peculiarities and possibilities of independent newspapers: on the basis of «Khaluk» newspaper examples

Backed Into a Corner: Structural Changes That Lead to Local News Deserts

On the surface, it may look like there are no news deserts in the Czech Republic, but that does not mean that all audiences are able to get relevant local news. Apart from independent local news outlets, which are diminishing, Czech districts are served by information provided either by a delocalised publishing chain or a municipality press that promotes the local government. I will focus on the emergence of news deserts from the perspective of independent local newspapers, especially on the structural changes that lead to the declining number of media outlets that offer local news in Czechia. Moreover, I take the bottom-up approach to reflect on the local journalists’ point of view. The mixed-method research, which was conducted in 2019 and 2020, consisted of a survey of local newspaper owners and in-depth interviews with local journalists. I identified several structural changes to both the local newspapers and to the general publishing industry that have led to growing organisational and economic problems for the local newspapers, and often to their demise. Local news is still carried by newspapers, which depend on the traditional business model and are slow with their digital transition. Their survival is based on (non)cooperation with either ancillary organisations (printing office, distribution firm, and sales outlet) or other local newspapers. Newspapers are cornered by the demands of external actors; their economic stability depends on the self-sufficiency of their production.

Local News as Propaganda: Precarization and Media Control in Qinghai News

ABSTRACT In this paper, we report on the challenges that Chinese local news outlets face in the absence of independent newspapers and radio stations, the underfunding and under-training of journalists, and the effective use of digital-only local news outlets for state propaganda. To this end, we carried out in-depth interviews with 20 staff members, including department heads, editors, and journalists from Qinghai News, the local news outlet in the Chinese province of Qinghai, to examine the daily routine of a local news organization dedicated to state media propaganda. Our results also show that journalists are cognizant of the overzealous grip of the central government on the press, but that low pay, dwindling professional opportunities, limited financial support for career progression, and management inaction are the main reasons for the high attrition rate in the Chinese local news industry. The paper concludes with an overview of the local news industry in China and the relative differences to the sector in Western industrialized countries.

Comunicação e pandemia: interlocuções criativas de populações vulnerabilizadas no Distrito Federal

Abstract The article aims to present results of a research that mapped communication technologies and arrangements designed and directed toward vulnerable populations in the territory of the Federal District (DF), Brazil, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research, which integrated a multicentric investigation, has a qualitative approach and was structured in five stages: virtual mapping of experiences; interviews with their leaders; individual and cross-sectional analysis of empirical material; collective validation of the results by virtual sessions and construction of a thematic map of the experiences. Fourteen initiatives on COVID-19 were mapped in the DF that had a communicational component and were aimed at the population of peripheral territories, with ten being selected for in-depth analysis.The respective leaders were interviewed, composing a thematic cartographic panorama of technologies and communication arrangements: life stories; “word of mouth”; network joints; in-person and organic communication; cards; advocacy; digital social networks; use of territorial equipment as communication tools; independent digital community newspaper; apps; solidarity network and community TV. The commitment of communication strategies and technologies regarding local realities, respecting the characteristics of communities, is highlighted, pointing to a crucial difference in relation to the predominant communication about the pandemic in public health institutions.

THE PHENOMENON OF THE FOURTH PLACE IN SPORT THROUGH THE SOCIAL AND MEDIA PRISM: THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES

THE PHENOMENON OF THE FOURTH PLACE IN SPORT THROUGH THE SOCIAL AND MEDIA PRISM: THE OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES

Interview Natalya Seitakhmetova with professor Ziauddin Sardar (London, UK)

Ziauddin Sardar is a British-Pakistani scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and public intellectual who special-izes in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, fu-turology and science and cultural relations. The author and editor of more than 50 books, Prospect magazine has named him as one of Britain’s top 100 public intellectuals and The Indepen-dent newspaper calls him: “Britain’s own Muslim polymath”.

Relevance and Political Discourse: Cognitive Grammar Meets Relevance Theory

The paper seeks to account, in terms of the Cognitive Grammar (CG) approach, for what Relevance theorists call epistemic vigilance, a metarepresentational human ability, often adopted by the addressee in his/her attempts to detect and evaluate (potentially) fake messages. In this way, we wish to explore the possibility of rapprochement between Cognitive Linguistics and Relevance Theory. In our attempt to incorporate epistemic vigilance into the Cognitive Grammar format, we propose to set up a cognitive space called a Relevance Schema (RS), a special “module” associated with Ronald Langacker’s Current Discourse Space (CDS). We claim that epistemic vigilance is instrumental in deriving “an implicational character” of the “true”, intended message that emerges in the blended space as a result of the clash between the explicatures’ meaning and the addressee’s understanding of a “state of affairs”. In Section 2, we discuss Charles Forceville’s Relevance-theoretic account of a political poster featuring Barack Obama. This is followed by a presentation in Section 3 of Ronald Langacker’s theory of CDS. Finally, Section 4 develops an analysis of the front-page issue of the Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and the related article devoted to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Kritik Terhadap Belanda Dalam Perspektif Surat Kabar Merdeka (1945-1947)


 This thesis discusses the criticism of the Netherlands in the perspective of the Merdeka newspaper (1945-1947). This study aims to explain the important role of the press in responding to social and political conditions during the Indonesian revolution from 1945 to 1947. The method used in this research is the historical method, including: heuristics (data collection), source criticism, interpretation, and historiography. The results showed that the press media as a forum that provided information in the form of positive information to the public after the arrival of NICA and the Allies to Indonesia. Merdeka newspaper took an active role as a free newspaper without the interests of any group and pro to the Republic. It is the nationalization of a newspaper previously called Asia Raya, published in Jakarta during the Japanese period. The visualization of news and opinions became a form of criticism of the Merdeka newspaper which gave a cynical impression, expressed the cruelty of the Dutch as the main enemy, anti-Dutch imperialism, and inflamed the spirit of the people to defend the independence of the Republic of Indonesia. Until July 20, 1947 the newspaper led by B.M Diah was no longer published because its editorial headquarters was at the State Printing Press, Central Salemba, Jakarta, which was occupied by the Dutch during the First Military Aggression. 
 Keywords: Press, Criticism, Independent Newspaper.

APA Calls on U.N. to Respond Urgently to Charges of Iranian Misuse of Psychiatry

APA Calls on U.N. to Respond Urgently to Charges of Iranian Misuse of Psychiatry

Ukrainian oppositional press during the late 1980s – the early 1990s: social-communicative aspect

The article is researched with the problem of the socio-communicative influence of the Ukrainian opposition press of the late 1980s and early 1990s on Soviet and post-Soviet society. The researchers established that the founders of such publications were activists of public organizations, including the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and the People's Movement of Ukraine. The role of the famous Ukrainian political figure, dissident and journalist Vyacheslav Chornovil in the development of the press service of the UHU has been clarified. Namely, V. Chornovil initiated the establishment of “Ukrayinskiy Visnyk”, the independent information agency UNVIS. During 1989-1990 members of opposition organizations established press services network in Moscow, Kyiv and Lviv, and also actively cooperated with well-known information organizations such as Radio Liberty. The independent information agency UNVIS created by Vyacheslav Chornovil with like-minded people became an important factor in the establishment of a number of independent newspapers and publications, and foundation of self-publishing libraries.

메이지기 번역어의 탄생과 한국 수용 - [obligation]이 [의무(義務)]로 번역되기까지 -

This study is aimed to observe the process of translating ‘obligations’ into Japanese, which are the basic concept of the modern rule of law in western ideology. In the early 1860s (which were the early days of modern Japanese translation), there were various types of translations such as [務][職分][關係]. In the mid1860s, the narrative translation form was often used, such as [務むへき義] [務めさることの義] [義を務む]. Among these descriptive translation forms, [義務] was created and used, which abbreviates [義を務む] which is similar to the Japanese narrative form. After 1870, enlightenment scholars at Kaiseizo (開成所) and Meirokusya (明六社) used [義務] in more than narrative translation forms in their works, thereby spreading it to the general public. In Korean data, “義務” was first discovered by “Hanseong Jubo” (1886). In the 1890s, examples used in modern Western enlightenment books such as “Seoyu Gyeonmun” (1895), popular newspapers like the “Hwangseong Newspaper” (1898), and the “Independent Newspaper” (1899) were found. Through this, it is judged that [義務] in Joseon in the late 1890s was generalized to the extent that it would not be unreasonable to use it with the general public.

ELECTION RESULTS IN THE IRAQI PRESS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYTICAL STUDY FOR AL-SABAH NEWSPAPER, AL-ZAMAN AND AL-SABAH NEWSPAPER

The press is the fourth authority, due to its active role in disseminating knowledge, awareness and enlightenment of all events that are going on around it, whether at the local or regional level. Therefore, it represents the profession of a person who collects news and opinions to publish them in a newspaper that includes topics of multiple interest, due to the wide variety of newspapers and their wide spread. After 2003, since that period, general newspapers addressed to the public, independent newspapers, and private newspapers affiliated with a particular party or current appeared, and each type has its own policy for dealing with daily events and facts. This study aims to know the results of the elections in the Iraqi press - a comparative analytical study between the governmental Al-Sabah newspaper and Al-Zaman and Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed independent as a model. In 2021, using the analytical descriptive approach, the comparative causal studies approach, and the content analysis method, to analyze the main categories of election results and then categorize them into sub-categories in statistical tables explained by the data in order to compare them among other categories, conclusions and recommendations. Therefore, this research is divided into three sections: where the first topic dealt with the methodological framework, including the research problem, its importance, objectives, limits, sample, methodology and analytical units, while the second topic talked about the concept of journalism in language, terminology and law, in addition to its factors, tasks, importance, characteristics, forms, types, ownership and functions of the third topic. Finally, it dealt with the practical side of the election results in the Iraqi newspapers, categorizing the analysis of each newspaper separately, its main and sub-categories, using statistical tables based on counting operations, calculating frequencies, percentages, and ranking, explaining its results and data, deducing the existence of a significant correlation with statistical significance among the categories of election results in the three newspapers.

INTENSITAS PEMBERITAAN KEGIATAN KEAGAMAAN PADA SURAT KABAR POSMETRO ROHIL

The purpose of this study is to find out the intensity of the reports on Posmetro Rohil's newspaper on religious activities. It attracts the attention of the writer because Posmetro Rohil is a newspaper in the middle of Rokan Hilir's society which is mostly fanatical of religious activities. The method used in this research is a qualitative descriptive with data acquisition through observation, interview, and documentation. It is known from this study that the factor affecting the story of Posmetro Rohil is based on an individual factor that describes that media management personnel do not have a higher tendency towards religious activity. Then outside media factors like resource and media revenue. And the last ideological factor, Posmetro is an independent newspaper and does not bring interest to a particular group. Although news about religious activity is news that tends to attract interest in reading society.

The constitution and national unity in the perspective of some Iraqi newspapers , 1958 - 1961 (the Kurds as a model)

The press played a prominent role in political events and to demonstrate its position on the constitution and national unity, and most of the newspapers were expressing the opinion of their owners, which was calling for national unity and the participation of all spectra of the Iraqi people with important decisions that have an impact on the political and constitutional aspect . Iraqi newspapers have varied in writing articles related to the constitution and national unity. Some of them were affiliated with the government. Of course, these newspapers will take a supportive position to the government in taking any decision related to political, social or economic matters, and there are newspapers belonging to the parties that were loyal to the ruling regime, but they She was not at the same pace in her loyalty to the government, and she was subjected to closures for reasons that might relate to the people in her administration or to conflicting positions for a specific situation in the country, and there are independent newspapers and most of them are afraid of the government position and therefore were almost loyal to the government.

In conversation with Maria Ressa

In October 2021, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were named joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. Ressa is the founder and chief executive of Rappler, a digital media company focused on investigative journalism, while Muratov founded an independent newspaper, Novaja Gazeta, in 1993 in Russia and has been editor-in-chief since 1995. Ressa provided the keynote address to the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) annual conference at RMIT University at the end of 2020. The global pandemic prevented her from attending in person, but the urgency of her advocacy for press freedom was underscored by the Nobel committee's subsequent decision. She became only the eighteenth woman to win in the 120 years of the Nobel Prize's history, and not since 1935 has a journalist won.

Gubernatorial Elections Change Demand for Local Newspapers

How do partisans react when their candidate wins or loses a gubernatorial election? Previous work shows that when parties win presidential elections, demand for their affiliated local newspapers decreases relative to the losing party’s newspapers. However, it is unclear if this negative link extends beyond presidential races into state-level elections. To test this relationship, we analyze demand for partisan and non-partisan newspapers in Virginia and New Jersey—two states that hold off-cycle gubernatorial elections with no competition from federal elections—from 1933 to 2005. We find demand for local newspapers associated with the winning party declines after gubernatorial elections compared to demand for other newspapers. The results also shed light on whether (and which) winning partisans are disengaging completely or shifting their consumption to independent newspapers. Taken together, our study suggests that state-level elections significantly influence local newspaper consumption and adds valuable local context to our understanding of the political dynamics of news demand.

메이지의 상상, 번역어의 탄생과 한국 수용 - [Nation]이 [국민]으로 번역되기까지 -

This study aims to observe the process of translating the western concept and word entry of “nation” into Japanese, which is the basic concept of modern western ideology. In the mid-1860s, Fukuzawa Yukichi chose the word “國民(kokumin)” among the traditional terms that meant “people”, giving it a modern meaning. Until the mid-1870s, a number of translations were used in Japan, including “國民” and “人民”. Under these circumstances, the Meiji government was responsible for advancing the translation of the word entry “nation” to “國民”. The Meiji government emphasized the word “國民” in an effort to strengthen the centralized system which was centered on the emperor. After the mid-1870s, it became so popular that “國民” was listed as the sole translation of “nation” in major dictionaries. However, in Joseon Korea, the term “國民(국민)” had been used to mean “people under the rule of the king” since before the modern era. The modern meaning of “國民” was first introduced in “Seoyugyeonmun(西遊見聞)” (1895). In the mid-1890s, an undergraduate compilation textbook and an independent newspaper in 1897 enlightened and disseminated the different concepts of the word entry 國民 rather than the traditional 國民. After 1910, it was used not only in textbooks and newspapers, but also in novels. By 1911, it was recognized as a pre-registration word entry.