Journal Award Research Articles

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The 2023 journal award of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine

The 2023 journal award of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine

Visual representations of community in scholastic photojournalism: A thematic analysis of award-winning photographs from the national scholastic press association’s photo of the year contest

While journalism awards can enhance social capital and signify quality, they often reinforce a limited, negative perspective of what is newsworthy. This study builds on existing research examining award-winning photojournalism by focusing on the understudied population of student photojournalists. Via a qualitative analysis of 229 photographs from the National Scholastic Press Association’s Photo of the Year Contest, this research analyzes major visual themes and prevalent news values in award-winning scholastic photojournalism. The results from this exploratory study indicate that student journalists visually represent high school as a place for connection, collaboration, and citizenship and present a uniquely positive portrayal of their world. The findings also suggest that conventionalization of topics, tone, and techniques is present in student photojournalism award contests although the themes that are reinforced by this conventionalization are dissimilar to what has been observed in professional photojournalism contests.

We Are the Impact. A Report from the Positive Changes Journal Awards

We Are the Impact. A Report from the Positive Changes Journal Awards

Journalism Award Report

Journalism Award Report

Should I Stay or Should I Code? Of Collaboration and Do-It-Yourself Programming in Investigative Journalism

For journalists, numerous digital tools such as spreadsheets or web application are readily available for easy implementation. However, using programming to build or modify scripts has been an unexplored option for many journalists. Programming requires skills from the ICT professions, so when journalists find coding to be an efficient tool, do they stick with their old methods and ask ICT specialists for help, or do they learn to code themselves? This article is a qualitative study of the methodological reports pertaining to investigative projects nominated for the Norwegian journalism award SKUP. In these reports, programming has been used as a tool in 109 projects. The study examines which problems are solved using coding and the arguments for choosing this tool over simpler methods. It also looks at who performs the coding and how the editorial teams collaborate to reap the benefits of coding. The findings show that many journalists often find it difficult to collaborate with ICT specialists. They would therefore rather learn basic coding skills themselves. They follow a “do-it-yourself” philosophy and learn simple and open programming languages such as SQL, Python just well enough to achieve their goals.

Innovation in a volatile field: An analysis of judges’ comments from journalism awards

Journalism faces increased uncertainty from an ever-shifting digital environment, fragmenting audiences and failing business models. Innovation has been touted as the only way to remain viable and the field now offers a range of professional awards for journalism innovation. This article investigates how the industry is navigating the uncertainty associated with innovation by analysing the judges’ comments from innovation awards. By analysing 45 judges’ comments from five Anglo-American award programmes and one international programme, this article finds that judges praised socially oriented themes, while technological and digital innovations are celebrated in relation to how well they support traditional journalism principles such as serving the public interest. This suggests that, in an uncertain environment, judges of innovation awards construct innovation in relation to traditional journalism principles.

Assessing the growth of data journalism start-ups as alternative media and their roles in “flawed democracies”

Data journalism start-ups have emerged as viable forces in the news industry in recent years, with their creation of strong data stories that have won global data journalism awards. Such start-ups may be seen to play particularly important roles to safeguard democracy in societies where mainstream media is strictly controlled, taking on the role of alternative media to challenge the status quo. This study examines such start-ups in Asia, a fast-growing region with high Internet penetration rates but declining democracy and press freedom in international indices. This study focuses on India, Thailand and Singapore, listed as “flawed democracies” in the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index, to discover the dimensions and roles of alternative media exhibited by selected data journalism start-ups there, particularly in their organizational structure, form, processes, content, and motive. Results show these organizations as focused not primarily on profits but on creating social change, offering to audiences more critical content and community voices, and playing the roles of interpreter, populist mobilizer, and even adversary. That said, politics and government do not tend to be common topics they cover – rather, systemic faults are revealed through investigations into social issues instead, revealing similarities with broader data journalism practice in the region.

Journalism Award Report

Tabaccologia | The Journal of Tobacco Science è la Rivista ufficiale della Società Italiana di Tabaccologia (SITAB). Pubblica in lingua inglese e italiana contributi a carattere scientifico per lo studio del tabacco, del tabagismo e delle patologie fumo-correlate.

Impact Investment 2022 Results: A Perspective from the Positive Changes Journal Award Winners

On December 7, 2022, the first annual award of the Positive Changes, a popular science journal about impact investments and social impact assessment, was presented. The award recognizes experts, journal contributors, and organizations for their input into the development of social and economic impact assessment. Read our article about who received the award and what for, how the winners of the award remembered 2022 in terms of impact and development of evaluation methodology, and what key events and new approaches can be highlighted.

«The Sigma Awards» data journalism projects: features of visual content

Introduction. Data visualization plays a crucial role in creating high-quality materials in data journalism; it is precisely the successful way of presenting information that depends on its comprehensibility, accessibility, and “virality” for the audience. The worldwide award, “The Sigma Data Journalism Awards,” winners are a kind of role model and trend indicator in data journalism. Goal. That is why the study aimed to analyze the key characteristics and elements of data visualization in the noted data journalism projects, as well as to identify changes that may occur in the techniques and methods of data presentation over time. Research methods. The method of comparative content analysis, methods of synthesis and generalization, as well as logical and chronological methods, were used. Results. As a result, 21 winners of “The Sigma Data Journalism Awards” chosen over three years (2020, 2022, 2023) were analyzed exclusively from the point of view of data visualization. In developing 3D modeling technologies, editors actively use these methods to improve communication effectiveness with the audience and increase their interest. Gamification is also noted as an innovative tool that increases the interactive component of visual objects. Maps, photographs, diagrams, and audio recordings remain relevant methods in data journalism, while infographics are used less and less in the projects noted. Leading newsrooms that actively create materials in data journalism are The New York Times, ABC News, and Civio, while ProPublica, Pointer, and Texty.org.ua stand out as leading media outlets specializing in the analysis and use of data. According to the study results, the recognized journalists noted in the visualization of data journalism are R. Dottle, Y-H. Law and J. Coburn. Conclusions. The obtained results can be useful for further research, which consists in conducting a statistical content analysis of the visualization of data journalism in the leading global newsrooms identified in this study (The New York Times, ABC news and Civio).

AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award winners named

2022 awards recognized reporting on citizen science, climate change, and more.

Hats Off: Journal Awards 2022

This summer, your president, your editor, and last year’s Journal award winners were challenged with selecting three new award-winning JAACAP articles. To be eligible, articles must epitomize scholarly excellence in a key area of our discipline and have been published in the Journal between July of the previous year and June of the current year by a lead or senior author who is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and an AACAP member.

2022 Plastic and Aesthetic Nursing Journal Award Winners.

2022 Plastic and Aesthetic Nursing Journal Award Winners.

Journal Awards for the Year 2021

On behalf of the Editorial Team of Hypertension Research in Pregnancy, I am pleased to announce the Journal Awards for the Year 2021.

Professional Ideals of Data Journalists Around the Globe: Congruencies and Divergences Between Role Conceptions and Narrated Role Performances

ABSTRACT This study combined an online survey with data journalists from 62 countries with content analysis of Global Editors Network Data Journalism Awards entries to explore and compare normative role conceptions and narrated role performance of these specialized type of news workers. The results reveal that political and audience-centric professional roles assume the same centrality in data journalists’ normative frameworks around the world. We detected a congruency in role conceptions and narrated role performances related to the civic role, but a discrepancy between the two ideals when examining the watchdog role. Contrary to how data journalism has been associated with objectivity, this study found that advocacy is a prominent professional role in the normative and performative compass of data journalists. Factors that influence the idealized professional roles of data journalists are critically discussed within the framework of journalistic awards scholarship and cross-national work.

Evaluating “exemplary data journalism” from Asia: An exploration into South China Morning Post’s data stories on China and the world

As more newsrooms practice data journalism in this age of big data through the use of analytical and visualization tools, much research on exemplary award-winning data stories continue to be Western-centric and associated with data journalism’s democratic role of scrutinizing government and corporations as watchdog. This study examines the news organization in the non-West that has scored the most wins in international data journalism awards, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, to discover characteristics of the data journalism it practices, as its media operates within an environment with increasing government monitoring of the press, similar to countries in the Asian region subjected to various forms of authoritarian politics. Through a content analysis of 130 data stories produced from 2016 to 2020, this study investigates the topics that SCMP’s data team chooses to cover, how they are covered and the extent to which data journalism is able to work in the public’s interest amid Hong Kong’s increasingly complex political and social context. Findings show that even when stories are data-driven and evidence-based, with the use of diverse data sources and visualizations, topics related to China or Chinese politics tend to be approached with caution and the nature of stories more explanatory than investigative and less interactive. The roles of watchdog and interventionist are felt weakly in SCMP’s data stories, and the role of loyal-facilitator felt more strongly for stories on China than those on Hong Kong and the world, suggesting that data journalism may face challenges performing its democratic functions.

Introducing AJVR journal awards for students, interns, and residents

Introducing AJVR journal awards for students, interns, and residents

The 12th KITAKANTO Medical Journal Award

The 12th KITAKANTO Medical Journal Award

Introduction

Introduction Eunice Lee (bio) Kim Myŏng-sun was modern Korea's first published woman writer. Her award-winning fiction debut in 1917, two full-length volumes of poetry, and vibrant oeuvre of more than 170 titles (including short stories, novels, poems, plays, essays, and translations) ushered in the first generation of sinyŏsŏng ("new woman") writers and creators including Na Hye-sŏk, Kim Ir-yŏp, and Kim Wŏn-ju. Kim Myŏng-sun was also a survivor of abuse and harassment. Her work has been marginalized from the canon, despite her literary versatility, her rigorous engagement with imperialistic and misogynistic mainstream narratives in colonial Chosŏn, and her indelible contributions to various genres of Korean writing. Kim Myŏng-sun was born in 1896 as the daughter of Pyongyang bureaucrat Kim Hŭi-gyŏng and his concubine Sanwŏl. T'an-sil (Kim's childhood nickname, later her pen name) struggled with the demonization of her mother's kisaeng (courtesan) status, and hoped that her own academic success would provide a way out of social stigmatization.1 After graduating fourth place from Chinmyŏng Girls' School in 1912, Kim moved to Japan and matriculated to Kōjimachi Girls' School in 1914, but a traumatic [End Page 353] incident prevented her from completing her studies. In 1915, Kim was raped by a colonial officer. Newspapers in Tokyo and Seoul released sensationalistic reports of the incident, non-consensually disclosing the survivor's name, age, and hometown.2 Early encounters with misogynistic violence would inform Kim's feminist writings throughout her literary career. In November 1917, Kim made her historical debut with "Suspicious Girl" ("Ŭisim ŭi sonyŏ"), a short story published in the magazine Youth (Ch'ŏngch'un, edited by Ch'oe Nam-sŏn), winning third place in a fiction contest judged by Yi Kwang-su.3 Kim thus became the first woman writer to debut in the modern tŭngdan system, i.e., make an official literary debut with a major journal acceptance and/or award. Kim followed "Suspicious Girl" with a series of yet more trailblazing firsts. In 1920, she joined the coterie of Creation (Ch'angjo) editors as the first Korean woman to join the masthead of a literary magazine. Her 1922 translation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Assignation" ("Sangbong") made her the first known English-to-Korean translator of Poe.4 In 1923, Kim's one-act play Stepchild (Ŭibutchasik) made her the nation's first published woman playwright.5 In 1925, Kim became the first Korean woman to publish a poetry collection. Her first book, The Fruit of Life (Saengmyŏng ŭi kwasil; Hansŏng Tosŏ Chusik Hoesa, 1925), features twenty-four poems, seven of which I have translated for this issue.6 "Will" ("Yuŏn"), Kim's most widely read poem and a forceful manifesto against systemic abuse, skillfully synthesizes the specific and the [End Page 354] universal—while naming ("Chosŏn") and apostrophizing ("you brutal place") the nation that has repeatedly misused and abused her femininity, Kim's speaker also testifies for "the next person born like" herself, using the intentional ambiguity of this "like[ness]" to include various oppressed identities and their intersections. It is this spirit of solidarity in "Will" that I aim to replicate when I translate "na kat'ŭn saram" using the gender-neutral singular "they" ("Abuse the next person […] Abuse them"). Identities, voices, and bodies are porous and morphing, both in "Will" and in other poems from The Fruit of Life. The dreamscapes in "Cleft" ("Punsin") and "The South" ("Nambang") merge the spiritual with the physical, the exterior with the interior, the fruit with the body ("Passing by a farm dripping with tangerines, / she wears no frills"), trauma ("eyes tearful") with desire and hope ("But a song drifts to her ear"). The brutally realistic parable of "A Fight" ("Ssaum") demonstrates Kim's fluency in various modes of storytelling including anticolonial and anti-capitalist allegory: "the furrows were tough / and his landlord a ferocious man." Critic Nam Ŭn-hye observes that Kim weaves her poems together with an acute awareness of their intertextuality.7 The "Prayer" ("Kido"), "Dream" ("Kkum"), and "Sigh" ("T...