Journalistic Genres Research Articles

Automated text classification of opinion vs. news French press articles. A comparison of transformer and feature-based approaches

This study explores Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods for distinguishing between press articles belonging to the journalistic genres of ‘objective’ news and ‘subjective’ opinion. Two classification models are compared: CamemBERT, a French transformer model fine-tuned for the task, and a machine learning model using 32 linguistic features. Trained on 8000 Belgian French articles, both models are evaluated on 1000 Canadian French articles. Results show CamemBERT’s superiority but highlight potential for hybrid approaches and emphasizes the need for robust and transparent methods in NLP. The research contributes to understanding NLP’s role in journalism by addressing challenges of point of view detection in press discourse.

The Future in Journalism and Mass Communication India

Journalism is assembling, handling and spread of news and data identified with the news to a group of people. The word applies to both the technique for inquisitive for news and the abstract style which is utilized to spread it. Mass communication is the investigation of how people and elements transfer data through broad communications to vast fragments of the populace in the meantime. International Journal of Media Journalism and Mass Communications (IJMJMC) is an internationally peer reviewed academic journal that publishes recent advancements in the field of Media Journalism and Mass Communications. We publish articles on topics like Media studies, Media influence, Communication studies, Social science, Citizen Journalism, Creative nonfiction, Journalism ethics and standards, Journalism genres, Non-profit journalism, Corporate media, Journalistic professionalism, Media balance, Media bias Peace Journalism, Social dynamics, Political commentary etc.

PUBLICISTIC MEANING OF THE REVIEW BY T. SYDYKBEKOV ON THE POETIC COLLECTION “MAKHABAT”

Publicism is one of the areas in Kyrgyz literary criticism, which has not often become the object of scientific research. Consequently, it can be said that opinions about its variety, comprehensiveness, genres, artistry, and the functions it performs have practically not yet been expressed. Considered from this angle, there are very few special studies on the journalism of individual writers. Therefore, in this article, by referring to the journalistic works of the writer Tugelbay Sydykbekov, an attempt is made to contribute to the solution of this urgent problem. T. Sydykbekov in his work addressed all journalistic genres, exerting his influence on society through them. Among them, in the first place, are his reviews, which are one of the genres of journalism, which in their time caused a lot of discussions and still do not lose their significance. At the same time, the writer's reviews are very diverse (on a work of art, on scientific works, on dictionaries, films, and much more). The article discusses the review written on the collection of poems by A. Osmonov “Makhabat” and the influence it had on the author. The validity of this review is considered in comparison with the review article of the poet M. Alybaev "Senseless Love" to the same collection.

Representación del periodista en las newspaper films de Samuel Fuller: La voz de la primera plana (1952), Corredor sin retorno (1963) y Tinikling ou ‘La madonne et le dragon’ (1990)

The representation of journalism on the big screen, the origins of which are to be found in the very birth of cinema, has evolved along with the medium itself, giving rise to very different portrayals of journalists both in those films that give an indisputable centrality to journalism and in others where journalists’ work figures merely as a backdrop. Regarding the former, termed ‘newspaper films’, these are movies which, despite their relationship with other genres, allow a closer and supposedly detailed look at the journalistic genre. This paper examines the three films about journalism that, in the extensive filmography of the American filmmaker Samuel Fuller, have the fourth estate and its practitioners at the heart of their plots: Park Row (1952), Shock Corridor (1963), and The Madonna and the Dragon (1990). Starting from the hypothesis that there is a heterogeneous representation of the journalists who embody the lead roles, the aim is to analyse the journalistic profiles represented therein, as well as the values, antivalues and ethical codes which determine these profiles.

Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World

Epistemologies of journalism differ across genres, and fact-checking, as an independent operation or feature within existing news media organizations, can be considered a genre of journalism with its own epistemology. This paper explores the epistemology of fact-checking as expressed by fact-checkers from 40 fact-checking organizations serving more than 50 countries on six continents. Fact-checkers operate in various political, social, economic, and informational contexts, and yet reveal isomorphic norms, practices, and structures, particularly in the form of knowledge, production of knowledge, and defense of their knowledge. What emerged in interviews with fact-checkers is a shared belief in the ability to determine the objective truth of claims, which is validated by evidence and a transparent process of reproducibility or modeling the fact-checking process. This process is also seen as a way to convince the reader of the accuracy and trustworthiness of fact-checks. Fact-checkers define their role and work as a public service, and frequently offer media literacy and fact-checking training to the public and journalists to instill a culture of factuality. Overall, the cross-national findings suggest that as fact-checking is becoming increasingly taken-for-granted or institutionalized, fact-checkers share a common epistemology, promoting confidence in factually verifiable truth.

К вопросу о жанре эпистолярного произведения

The purpose of the article is to characterize a letter to the editor as a separate genre in terms of its structure, function, relationship between the author and the addressee, specific content and linguistic means that make up the scope of this form of communication. The Introduction draws attention to the anthropological dominance of modern philological research. References to the writer’s archive, the rendition of the epistolary heritage both as a fact of their creative biography and as a historical and literary phenomenon is proposed. The theoretical part is devoted to the understanding of the most important approaches to the theory of genre, including writing as a special genre of documentary prose. The problem of research analysis and perception of letters is updated. The content and formal indicators of the genre are characterized. The analytical part is presented by a model of historical-functional analysis and interpretation of a letter to the editor. The attention is focused on its functional specificity. It is proved that the genre of a letter to the editor can be removed from the sphere of journalistic genres to a literary genre with its historical and literary significance. In the Conclusion a letter is presented as a separate genre in terms of its form and function; the main genre characteristics are given. It is emphasized that motivation, purposefulness, dialogism as genre signals allow a letter to the editor to be classified as a work of literature.

Critically Contextualising a Mega-Event: Nordic Sports Commentaries During the 2022 World Cup in Football

Prior to the FIFA 2022 World Cup, Nordic news media emphasised their ambitions of persistently covering problematic aspects of this mega-event to be hosted in Qatar, a country subjected to severe criticism of its human rights breaches in the build-up to the event. Focusing on the genre of commentary journalism—a form committed to articulating opinions on social and cultural issues—this study illuminates how key Nordic news media argued for their views on the World Cup 2022.<em> </em>Drawing on empirical material from Danish and Norwegian broadcasters and tabloids, the study analyses commentaries (excluding “sports only” commentaries) published during the event, highlighting the types of arguments, the discourses they articulate or imply, and their attribution of agency to organisational actors. Although a critical and contextualising argumentation runs through commentaries made during the tournament, the reasoning changes its character to such a degree that it is pertinent to categorise the commentaries as reflecting two distinct discursive phases. Argumentation in the first phase sustains a critique of FIFA and the organiser. Arguments were typically formulated as personal attacks but tended to elaborate on their premises by providing fact-based background from investigations of power abuse. The argumentation in the second phase changes its character by more clearly emphasising the <em>action</em> needed to transform current problematic <em>circumstances</em> in accordance with stated <em>goals</em>, not least a reformation of FIFA. The commentators now tend to be less moralising and more diverse and reflective in how they argue for changes in the governance of mega-events in football.

The Role of Technology in Travel Journalism: The Albanian Case

Digitalization has affected the specialization of travel journalism, but has brought opportunities and many new challenges. Travel journalism is now everywhere, with multimedia capabilities, personalization, interactivity, hypertext stories, virtuality, etc. The role of technology has already broken-down the traditional media monopoly, as the ability of Web 2.0 has enabled anyone to give rise to a customed media, create and distribute content, where travel journalists now thanks to different platforms allow users and travelers to plan trips, share their experiences instantly with a wide audience and react to stories published by others. In this article will examine how this genre is developing in Albania, specifically because our country is experiencing a touristic boom, but also thanks to the technology development. It will be perceived how tourism has re-dimensioned and updated this journalistic genre, through qualitative interviews of actors in the field, where through them will get to know the challenges and perspectives. Received: 25 December 2023 / Accepted: 25 February 2024 / Published: 23 April 2024

Genre Conventions of Fact-Checks: Topics, Style, and Form of Fact-Checking in Two IFCN-Certified News Media

ABSTRACT Despite fact-checking often being described as a new genre of journalism, the number of studies focusing on genre conventions in fact-checking is limited. This study examines fact-check conventions related to topic selection, style, and form through a quantitative content analysis of 375 fact-checks from Belgium's verified International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) signatories published between 1 September 2021 and 31 August 2022. Results show that the most prominent topics in fact-checks resembled the “top public policies” of the time in which the fact-checks were published and that fact-checkers focused more on statements circulating on social media or online than on statements made by elite actors. Concerning style, both news outlets use source and verification transparency but implement it differently in their fact-checks. Regarding the form, multimedia embeds are commonly used, and labels are used to mark the fact-checks explicitly as such. Additionally, giving a final judgement is a common convention, but they are not provided through rating scales, and both news outlets use different formats for these final judgements. Overall, it can be concluded that genre conventions in fact-checking through IFCN-certified news media are not fixed yet and that style and form seem to depend on the topic and origin of fact-checks.

The chronicle in opinion journalism. facts and interpretation

The diversity of genres of opinion in Moldovan journalism and the multiple possibilities of approaching events within the framework of journalistic opinion materials allow the examination of the genres and species of journalistic branches in new contexts every time. The article below examines the characteristics of the chronicle as a journalistic genre of opinion and observes the traditional but also the new valences of the chronicle texts. At the same time, in the materials presented in the article below are proposed examples of chronicle texts with the analysis of their specifics in order to observe the mandatory and necessary elements of the chronicle, according to the specifics of the genre, as well as the identification of those characteristics that will not be found in other opinion texts.

The ‘Black Pete’ debate in Flemish newspapers: from conflict to moderation

ABSTRACT In recent years, a lot of academic attention has been paid to the public discussion on ‘Black Pete’ (Zwarte Piet) in the Low Countries. Black Pete is a much-debated blackface character which is part of the Saint-Nicholas tradition – a yearly festive event taking place at the beginning of December associated with gifts and celebration. ‘Tradition’ versus ‘racism’ seem to be the main arguments in the debate. The current study analyses the debate as it evolved in Flanders from 2012 until 2022, applying Critical Discourse Analysis to find out how the thinking about the event and the Black Pete character, as reflected in the newspapers, changed over a decade. Our sample consists of 143 articles from the four most read newspapers in Flanders (De Standaard, De Morgen, Het Laatste Nieuws, Het Nieuwsblad). All journalistic genres were included, news reports as well as opinion articles, but also readers’ letters. Based on an analysis of naming, modality and evidentiality (Fairclough [2013]. Critical discourse analysis: The critical study of language. Routledge; Halliday [1994]. An introduction to functional grammar. Arnold), we illustrate and demonstrate how the tone of the debate gradually changed from a discourse of conflict into a discourse of moderation and appeasement.

Programs in the genre of investigative journalism on Russian TV-channels

INTRODUCTION. The work presents a systematic review of investigative programs on Russian television channels and provides a generalized description of this area of journalism. In the last third of the 20th century, attention to mass media began to increase not only as a source of info rmation, but also as a channel of democratization, stimulating interest in investigative journalism an activity designed not only to illuminate the life of society, but also to involve public representatives from a variety of different backgrounds in this process. layers of the population.MATERIALS, METHODS, REVIEW. A review of television programs in the genre of investigative journalism is given based on the material of the leading federal Russian television channels “Channel One”, “Russia24”, “NTV”, emphasizing the relevance of their creation, the importance of refuting disinformation created in order to distort reliable information in the media, in including on television. In the process of working on the article, the author used the observation method, systematic and descriptive scientific methods. The article provides an overview of the most significant investigative television programs both in retrospect and from the perspective of modernity: “The View”, “Top Secret”, “Man and Law”, “Investigation of Eduard Petrov”, “New Russian Sensations”, “Anti-Fake”.RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. The results of the analysis of programs in the investigative genre showed that the genre of investigative journalism is relevant and in demand by viewers against the backdrop of an urgent need to refute obvious disinformation and lies created by countries unfriendly to Russia. This is fully confirmed by a study conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation among respondents aged 18 years and older (1500 people from urban and rural areas), conducted in 2023.CONCLUSION. The role of investigative journalism has increased significantly due to the escalation of the information war. Today, television offers a variety of types and forms of television programs in this genre, designed to orient viewers in the flow of information, help them recognize false news, and distinguish the truth from deliberate disinformation.

Comparative Study of Hate Speech in the 2015 and 2019 General Elections in Three Selected Newspapers in Nigeria

The recent trend in journalism malpractice in the country is the dissemination of hate speech and vulgar language. Within this context, the paper analyzed the manifestation of hate speech in the 2015 and 2019 general elections in the Daily Trust, The Nation, and The Guardian newspapers. The variables of frequency, location, direction, as well as a journalistic genre were used to examine the manifestation of hate speech in the 2015 and 2019 general elections by the selected newspapers. Stratified random sampling by days of the week was used to select the editions in the newspapers. The Functional Theory of Campaign Discourse and Critical Race Theory was used as the theoretical framework. Based on the findings, to table the manifestation of hate speech was more frequent in 2015 than in the 2019 general elections by the selected newspapers. The findings reveal that the manifestation of hate speech by the selected newspapers in the 2015 and 2019 general elections was significantly high in the inside pages than in the front and back pages. The study found that the manifestation of hate speech by the selected newspapers was in a negative direction in 2015, and in a neutral direction in 2019. The study discovered that the manifestation of hate speech was on political news by the selected newspapers in the 2015 and 2019 general elections in Nigeria. The paper concludes that the manifestation of hate speech in the 2015 and 2019 general elections in Nigeria was significantly high, and this constituted a major problem in the 2015 and 2019 general elections.

FEATURES OF THE LOVE OF TREES AND LAND PROGRAM OF CAN THO RADIO-TELEVISION STATION

<p><em>The Love</em><em> of Trees and Land </em>program<em> (</em><a href="https://canthotv.vn/">https://canthotv.vn</a>) is a television program about the agriculture of Can Tho Radio-Television Station, Can Tho City, in the Mekong Delta region, South of Vietnam. Researching the characteristics or features of this program will contribute to clearly stating the content and messages through each program, adding specific information about city agriculture in which the program uses language, form of transmission, and content of messages to the people. At the same time, it would present the characteristics, content, and form of this journalism genre, taking advantage of the strengths of television journalism. Through the statistical classification method, it is necessary to collect and classify information, data, images, etc. in the program to serve the deployment and explanation of scientific arguments through each category with 39 episodes included in the program from content to form elements namely, information, data, images, language from the hosts and from comments. This television program has brought the audience knowledge, experience, and information about agricultural activities in the region such as <em>agricultural news, farmers needing to know, advanced farmers, behind the rice crop, information about climate change, science, and technology in production, farmers getting rich, new rural areas,</em> etc. Form the findings of the research, it was seen that each part brings the audience attractive, useful and practical content, helping the audience better understand current agricultural issues, opportunities, and challenges, knowledge of the agricultural industry in the context of climate change and international integration, clean, efficient and sustainable agricultural models, stories of typical farmers with good production, quality agricultural products in the region and volunteer activities, building local infrastructure, cleaning up the environment, and policies to support farmers in production, which are just in <em>The</em> <em>Love of</em> <em>Trees and Land </em>program<em>. </em></p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0509/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

«Күлтегін» жазба ескерткішіндегі публицистикалық жанрлардың көрінісі

The formation and periods of development of the journalistic genre need to be monitored since ancient times. The coexistence of such concepts as society, politics, system, and people is natural from the day they appeared in human consciousness. Through the journalistic genre, facts related to truth and artistic language are transmitted, which can be perceived by society. In particular, since the Turkish people united and established the Turkic Khaganate in the 5th century, modern journalism of nomadic civilizations has also been formed. The journalistic genre occupies a special place in written monuments. The word "Publicus" itself also means "public". It follows that journalism presents to the public the most important and relevant information in society. The early written monuments considered the historical realities of that period, current political events, issues of the kagan, the kaganate. This is evidenced by the marked texts in such Orkhon monuments as "Tonikok", "Kultegin". The monuments of the Orkhon-Yensei script themselves belong to the "ancient Turkic era". The people who were part of the Eastern Turkish Kaganate read and spoke this language, that is, the same language was used in journalistic terms

Publicistické žánre v biblioterapii

Some journalistic genres can be succesfully used as a part of the therapeutic pedagogically oriented bibliotherapy. The paper deals with the specifics of their use at the beginning, during and at the end of the therapy process. It contains recommendations on how a therapeutic pedagogue or other professional with the therapeutic qualification can effectively apply journalistic genres as an element supporting the formation and strengthening of new competencies in children, pupils or students who face special developmental challenges. As well for other pedagogues how they can effectively cooperate with the help of experts for therapy in solving of developmental tasks of such children. A special part of the contribution is dedicated to the latest challenge of helping with the correct interpretation and evaluation of information provided by the media, which increasingly needs to be nowadays addressed as part of the therapeutic pedagogical care of children and adolescents.

Sketch in the contemporary social-communication space: development trends

Introduction. The contemporary stage of mass media development is marked by a change in the genre system. One of the genres that has almost disappeared from traditional media, but actively reacted to the emergence of the network space and became part of it, is undergoing transformational processes, is the sketch. Relevance and goal. Understanding the trends in the development of sketches at the current stage is relevant, as it provides an opportunity to look at the place and role of this genre in the social and communication space in a new way. The purpose of the study is to outline the trends in the functioning of the sketch genre in the contemporary social and communication space. Methodology. The research used the methods of scientific literature analysis, analysis and synthesis, typological analysis, and systematization. The chosen methods made it possible to find out the general features of the development of the sketch genre in the Ukrainian social and communication space. Results. A survey of traditional media showed that today the sketch is almost not presented in them. However, this genre has not completely disappeared, it cannot be classified as marginal. Currently, the sketch is undergoing a process of revival and transformation, reflecting those processes that are characteristic of the contemporary period of development of media activity – the era of post-journalism. Social networks have become a successful platform for its implementation, where this genre acquires a new genre dimension. The most optimal way to realize the genre “status” of a sketch is Facebook – a social communication platform that provides for small-format posts, an active authorial position, which is characteristic of the genre we are considering. The sketch adapts to the conditions of network discourse, so its genre model also changes: the presentation style is simplified, the visual component is strengthened, etc. The communicative approach to writing is also changing: from the genre of a professional sketch, it is transformed into a genre of amateur journalism. Network sketches became the catalyst of a new socio-communication phenomenon – network literature (virtual literature, Internet literature). Sketches “outgrow” the boundaries of social media and find a literary embodiment in individual publications. The modern media space is characterized by the functioning of both traditional types of sketches and the latest forms. Conclusions. Sketches are becoming more and more in demand in the modern social and communication space. This genre adapted to the requirements of the “network” discourse and became an integral part of it.

TRANSPOZICIJA KATEGORIJALNE SEME U SUPSTANDARDNIM DEKOMPOZITIMA SRPSKOG JEZIKA

In this study, individualisms in the journalistic genre of columns were analyzed from the lexical-semantic and formative aspects. Sources of the emergence of individual lexicon, its textual meaning, and its pragmatic components are presented, considering that the majority of individualisms represent vocabulary with connotative expressiveness. The study demon- strates that realized individualisms arise through semantic derivation or in productive and non-productive formative processes in the Serbian language. It is highlighted that these indi- vidualisms predominantly consist of units with high and increased levels of negative expres- siveness, directed towards the negative evaluation of political public and society as a political actor. Besides contributing to tracking lexical trends in contemporary public discourse, this paper also adds to the genre determination of the column on the lexical level.

ОСОБЕННОСТИ ФОРМАТА "СПЕЦПРОЕКТ" В СОВРЕМЕННЫХ ИНТЕРНЕТ-СМИ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ТАСС И "МЕДИАМАКС")

The article deals with an issue of forming a “special project” in the leading Internet publications of Armenia and Russia, on the one hand, in the context of growing digitalization and globalization of the media space, and on the other hand, against the background of geopolitical turbulence of recent years and large-scale international-political shifts. The author notes that there is not just multimedization of traditional journalism genres, but also the emergence of genre-format transformations of the content of the media operating in the Internet space, i.e. new formats and genres that are more adaptive and relevant to modern realities. Among them, she proposes to include the “special project”. Understanding “special project” as a set of various information products, a hybrid format consisting of various multimedia and interactive genres / formats / methods, related to specific issues, forming certain images and ideas and addressed to a usually more or less easily identifiable audience, the author subjects the content analysis of the special projects of the Russian news agency TASS and Armenian media holding “Mediamax” published from 2018 to 2023. The analysis shows that in both Armenian and Russian cases the most demanded special projects are those on historical themes, which may be related to the growing importance of historical politics in the post-Soviet space and the search for new media tools for the formation and dissemination of certain historical narratives.

Memoir essay as a document of fiction

The article explores the memoir essay as a journalistic genre combining documentary and fictional elements. The study is based on the books of memoirs by B. Zaitsev, M. Nesterov and S. Rachmaninov. The analysis of memoir texts by people of creative professions makes it possible to identify the features of the synthesis of two narrative components and to determine the individual author’s approach to the disclosure of the characters’ personality.As a result of the comparative, compositional, stylistic and contextual analysis, we have come to the following conclusions: the artistic and journalistic portrait essay fully retains its genre features only in B. Zaitsev’s book “The Distant Land“, the books of two other authors contain portrait characteristics and sketches as compositional elements in the biographical and autobiographical essay. However, the fictional images created by the memoirists contribute to the strengthening of the documentary nature, vividly, clearly and realistically recreating people and their era, despite the inevitable memoir subjectivism.It is difficult to distinguish between the fictional and documentary sides of the text. In the journalistic text, each of them confirms the dual nature of the essay genre, which is at the intersection of documentary and fictional literature.