Journalistic Message Research Articles

‘Crazy Chinese’ and the 2017 nuclear crisis: A Peruvian newspaper representation of Kim Jong-Un

This study analyzes the narrative characteristics of graphic and written language regarding Kim Jong-Un in the peruvian newspaper ‘El Trome’. This occurred in May of 2017, when mainstream press in Peru closely followed national corruption scandals, whilst ‘El Trome’ focused on a different news story: the nuclear crisis between the United States and North Korea, popularizing the term “Crazy Chinese” in order to refer to the controversial Asian leader. Grounded Theory precepts were employed, which included content analysis of the newspaper covers as well as in depth interviews of the newspapers with both Trome’s General Editor and Design Editor. The newspaper maximized the fear associated with an impending nuclear war, constructing a journalistic message from a sequence of events with two main protagonists: Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un, unpredictable leaders with access to nuclear weapons. The strategy appealed to black humor and entertainment in order to position an agenda independent from mainstream press, which focused on internal politics at the time.

Nauczanie biskupa Adama Lepy jako drogowskaz po dziennikarskich ścieżkach

Undoubtedly, analyzing the teaching of bishop Adam Lepa, we can see that the media show great opportunities in the field of positive action: they teach, bring the works of culture closer, arouse creative passions, and in the hands of believers they become a place of effective evangelization. Based on the above aspects, we can see that a media worker, thanks to his faithfulness to the Word, becomes not only a teacher but also an evangelizer. Recognizing the need for the formation of a journalist, the work emphasizes that spiritual formation in the life of a person responsible for the transfer of information is very important. The fruit of preaching a journalistic message will be, for example, the shaping of a Christian mentality, which will bring people closer to God. Building a Christian mentality is a way of thinking, it’s intellectual inquisitiveness, and above all, it’s habits of thought and beliefs to which a person has managed to get used to. A journalist using the formation will be aware that Christ is his most important formatter. Therefore, the principles of spiritual formation never grow old, just like the Gospel, of which a journalist of the 21st century can become a faithful witness.

Games as Political Actors in Digital Journalism

The goal of this study is to explore the role of digital games as political actors in digital journalism. The development of digital games designed to frame journalistic messages led to the emergence of newsgames. This trend impacts online mass media outlets’ performance as political actors in democratic polities. In this article, we explore the current relationship between political communication and newsgames by answering the following research question: How do online mass media outlets use newsgames to report, interpret, and critically analyze democratic polities?<em> </em>In this study, an inductive grounded theory approach was used to analyze 29 political newsgames published in 25 mass-media digital outlets across 11 different countries. The findings reveal that mass media outlets employ political newsgames to perform four distinct functions when covering political events: analytical reportage, commentary, critical scrutiny, and representation.

Media Representation of the Jewish Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Content Analysis of Bosnian Daily Newspapers (2005-2021)

The study aimed to examine the characteristics of Bosnian daily newspaper coverage of the Jewish community of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the period 2005-2021. Content analysis of relevant journalistic messages (N=1173) was employed to examine the frequency of their appearance, positioning and formatting patterns, dominant thematic fields, distribution of voices, and overall tone. The results of the analysis point to the contradictory features of media coverage of the Bosnian Jewish community, the limited possibility to achieve "symbolic contact" with the minority community, and the affirmative context of presentation. The study yields empirically grounded insights that allow a better understanding of the process of journalistic coverage of minority groups in multi-ethnic states marked by a history of violent conflicts. The study highlights the relevance of the theoretical understanding of journalism as a performative practice that participates in the process of (re)defining symbolic boundaries between different social groups.

To the question of the legal essence of the civil term. Its correlation with legal facts

This article is devoted to the scientific study of the civil law term and its distinction from such a legal phenomenon as a legal fact. It was established that the term itself is not a legal fact, but only reflects its temporal essence as an element. The expiration or beginning of a term is a certain legal event. But not all actions or events that occur when determining the content of material legal relations have the meaning of legal facts. For example, the actions to agree the terms of the deed, which precede its conclusion, do not contain such a property, because they do not directly form property relations. So, those phenomena external to the deed, which affect its course, can be qualified as legal facts. The term is not such a factor, because it cannot begin or end at all, when the movement of the legal relationship is not determined by the deed, acts of the state, the judiciary, other actions and events specified in Art. 11 of the CCU as the basis for the emergence of civil rights and obligations. It is not the beginning of the term that determines the emergence of an objective right, but a certain action, which is manifested in the clearly expressed will of the legislation to grant a person certain powers of exactly this content and exactly this duration. The arrival of the moment of the given right is a consequence of this action and determines the time limits of the right. Both the beginning and the expiration of the term, as indicated above, are products of other legal facts, and their nature does not depend on the temporal distance from the latter. Not the beginning of the term will be the legal basis for the emergence of a subjective right, but the same deed. The term starting from the stipulated date, as well as other internal characteristics of the acquired authority, will be the consequences of a specific legal fact. The same should be said about such an event as the expiration of the established period. The termination of the temporal limits of subjective law has the same consequences as the termination (exhaustion) of its physical features. This indisputable thesis is illustrated in the work with concrete examples from practice. The article critically evaluates certain journalistic messages, which boil down to mixing objective law (which, indeed, can arise with the onset of temporal manifestations) and subjective law, which arises, changes and ceases only as a result of the influence on the legal status of classical legal facts.

Newsgames: The Use of Digital Games by Mass-Media Outlets to Convey Journalistic Messages

This study explores the way mass-media outlets make use of digital games to convey journalistic messages. Newsgames have been defined by several scholars in the intersection between digital journalism and game studies. However, because of the heterogeneity of this phenomenon, there is still a lack of clarity of what could be considered, or not, a newsgame. This study aims to shed light into this question by exploring how newsgames are used in practice by journalists. We therefore approach the understanding of this phenomenon from a bottom-up perspective to give an answer to the following research question: How are journalistic messages structured within newsgames published by online mass-media outlets? A grounded theory approach is used to analyze 75 games published in a total of 47 mass-media digital outlets from 17 countries. The results of this study have led to the proposal of a more systematic identification and analytical approach for newsgames.

Lecturas mediadas y discursivas de académicas argentinas, estadounidenses y mexicanas en la cobertura periodística de candidatas presidenciales

En el presente estudio se realizaron diez entrevistas focalizadas donde profesoras universitarias de Argentina, Estados Unidos y México leyeron noticias en periódicos sobre Cristina Fernández, Hillary Clinton y Margarita Zavala, respectivamente. Se encontraron siete maneras en las que se deconstruyeron estilística y discursivamente los mensajes periodísticos, entre las cuales están el cuestionar las decisiones editoriales del medio, así como evidenciar de qué manera la ideología del diario genera un tratamiento específico con la intención de manipular audiencias.

COVID-19 reflected in emotional journalistic texts

The article presents the results of research based on the analysis of media texts reflecting the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of people globally. As this impact is mainly negative, all these media texts (printed and digital) belong to the journalism of an emotional nature. The authors present the classification of journalistic genres, make the important subdivision into hard news and soft news, analyse the most popular emotions theories and approaches to their study. The pandemic reflected in media may be considered as hard news and is closely connected with news value, i.e. the impact of the publication on a wide audience. News values may function in the text as signals of addressee orientation. The definite impact may be evoked by emotively charged words in the media text; such words can be regarded from the perspective of emotive semantics. This approach leads us to media linguistics, a relatively new branch of linguistics which is based on the multilevel analysis of media text, namely text structure (each journalistic message has its own specific composition), vocabulary (texts belonging to journalism of analytical or emotional types have different vocabulary), and categories (structural and semantic text categories depend on journalistic genre). Media texts belonging to emotional journalism abound in different stylistic devices; in our essay semasiological and syntactic devices are prevalent.

Etyka dziennikarzy w opinii studentów kierunku dziennikarstwo i komunikacja społeczna Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego

Journalism, as a form of public service, requires for the journalists to be guided by specific rules of professional ethics. The quality of journalistic messages depends on it, and thus also the way in which the recipients of these messages learn about reality. The aim of the research presented in the article was to find out the opinions of journalism students on how they perceive journalists in terms of the ethical principles they apply in their work. The research covered students of journalism and social communication at the University of Rzeszów. The results of the research shows that this assessment is relatively critical – journalists are perceived as occasionally breaking certain standards and guided by both the social interest and the pragmatical development of their own careers.

Implicit ways to express the author’s opinion in the publicistic discourse of Runet blogosphere

The modern analysis of journalist discourse is based on many extralinguistic factors: ethnocultural characteristics of the social environment, creating and sustaining discourse; conditions of political loyalty and the orientation of journalist discourse to the target audience, sources of discourse replenishment and conditions for its self-development in the general discourse-forming environment. These factors have a direct impact on specific ways of delivering information by the authors of the journalistic message to the individual recipient and the mass audience. The relevance of the research is determined, first of all, by the study of the features of the Russian language functioning on the Internet, which fits into the foremost problems of modern Russian studies. The novelty is associated with the analysis of specific ways of linguistic expression of the authors position in Runet journalism, which have not been specially studied so far. The purpose of the research is to consider the ways of expressing evaluation in the texts of the Runet blogs authors. The article shows that implicit ways of expressing the authors evaluation in the Runet texts have the same function as any other evaluative statements: to specifically influence the addressee. The studied material shows that the evaluativeness of the Runet blogosphere authors statements, closely interacting with expressiveness and emotionality, depends on their subjective perception of information and helps them express their point of view. The article highlights the implicit ways of expressing the authors position, which allow in an implicit but understandable form to convey the meaning of the statement to the recipient. The study used materials from Runet blogs, which most vividly and representatively show the features of the Russian-language network journalistic discourse. When working with speech material, analytical methods were used - descriptive (descriptive-analytical) and contrastive, which revealed the linguistic specifics of journalistic discourse, identified and interpreted intra-contextual and intertextual connections, established communication features. The research approaches of discourse analysis and stylistics were also used. The studied material and the results allow to conclude that implicit ways of expressing the authors position have the same goals as explicit value judgments: they emotionally affect the recipient and accurately convey the meaning of the statement. At the same time, implicitness in the Russian language successfully solves the problem of creating and maintaining the authors individuality. The prospects for this study are seen in further scientific development of various implicit ways of expressing the authors position in Runet journalism for further understanding of new processes in the Russian language, in the formation of journalistic discourse and in Russian communication in the digital space.

Una forma eufemística de llamarle a las mentiras

Este estudio se centra en el análisis e interpretación de los conceptos de populismo y posverdad en el ámbito del periodismo de opinión. El estudio presenta como modelo analítico una selección de artículos de Arcadi Espada (Barcelona, 1957), colaborador de El Mundo y autor de libros de investigación y de crítica periodística. Dichos textos constituirán el objeto del análisis discursivo centrado en los contenidos informativos y los aspectos formales de la redacción de la noticia. El enfoque del trabajo reelabora las teorías de Redacción Periodística y los estudios sobre Argumentación a fin de ilustrar las técnicas y las estrategias compositivas y estructurales del mensaje periodístico de opinión. El objetivo es recomponer un cuadro analítico mediante la teorización de los conceptos mencionados, la posverdad y el populismo, y sus ecos en las columnas analizadas en conformidad con los resultados realizados por los estudios de Teoría de la Comunicación, de Análisis del Discurso y de Periodística. El enfoque del trabajo reelabora las teorías de Redacción Periodística y los estudios sobre Argumentación a fin de ilustrar las técnicas y las estrategias compositivas y estructurales del mensaje periodístico de opinión. El objetivo es recomponer un cuadro analítico mediante la teorización de los conceptos mencionados, la posverdad y el populismo, y sus ecos en las columnas analizadas en conformidad con los resultados realizados por los estudios de Teoría de la Comunicación, de Análisis del Discurso y de Periodística

Historiography on the �Siberian� Period of Mikhail Bakunin (1857-1861): A Critical Discourse

paper critically reviews the available scientific and biographical literature, which examines the four-year period of social activity of the Russian thinker and opposition politician Mikhail Bakunin in Siberia during the “thaw” of the late 1850s and early 1860s. purpose of the study is to provide critical perspectives on the myths of historiography that interfere with the reconstruction of Mr. Bakunin’s “Siberian period.” Thus, the author of the article aims to achieve the restoration of Mikhail Bakunin’s place and role in the public life of Russia in those times. In particular, the author refutes the myth that the “great rebel” was allegedly in a voluntary self-isolation during that period of his life. In addition, the dubious source of this historiographical version is critically analyzed, dating back to Mikhail Katkov, a very famous ideologist of imperial conservatism. author argues that the Katkov’s legend turned into a toolbox of official communist historiography, and then it was reproduced virtually unchanged in publications of the Soviet era until the collapse of the dominant regime. First of all, the author proposes to radically rethink the false conception of the Siberian period of Mikhail Bakunin that has become entrenched in historical literature. Second, the author considers it necessary to justify the redirection of the copyright affiliation of some sources of radical revolutionary journalism in 1860-1861 to Mikhail Bakunin, including the famous Letters (1860) to the editorial office of the Russian emigrant newspaper The Bell. Based on the methodology of textual content analysis of the keywords inherent in this journalistic message and similar letters from Mr. Bakunin from Siberia, the author formulates the main conclusion: the real author of this appeal at that moment could be only the closest friend and associate of Alexander Herzen, i.e., Mr. Bakunin himself.

Bazy danych jako nowe źródła informacji. Big data przyszłością dziennikarstwa?

<p>Istotą każdego urządzenia sprzęgniętego w sieć informatyczną jest gromadzenie, przetwarzanie oraz przesyłanie danych. Wraz z postępem technologicznym ilość informacji, a przede wszystkim możliwości ich gromadzenia oraz interpretacji, pozwoliły na eksplorację tak zwanego big data w tych dziedzinach nauki, które do niedawna znajdowały się poza marginesem tzw. rewolucji danych. Zbiory big data początkowo wykorzystywane były jedynie przez instytucje finansowe. Na ich podstawie wyznaczano matematyczne prognozy ekonomiczno-gospodarcze. Obecnie, kiedy humanistyka stoi w ogniu krytyki, a prym w nauce wiodą nauki ścisłe, humanistyka zaczyna bronić się i podobnie jak nauki ścisłe – korzystać z nowych technologii. W obrębie nauk humanistycznych dużą rolę zaczynają odgrywać dane, które umiejętnie przeanalizowane, pozwalają przewidywać zjawiska społeczne. Dane skorelowane ze sobą przez dziennikarzy danych stają się początkiem nowych, nieznanych historii. Autorka w swoim tekście wykazuje funkcje danych w procesie tworzenia przekazów dziennikarskich. Przedstawia je jako remedium na przeciążenie informacyjne. Upatruje w dziennikarstwie danych przyszłości pozyskiwaniu i generowaniu informacji.</p>

Estrategias comunicativas de la prensa en Twitter. Una comparativa entre España y Portugal

The development of the Web 2.0 has caused the appearance of several Social Media, whose dynamics leads to a continuous exchange of content by users. The consolidation of the current communication model, characterized by the horizontality, bidirectionality, and decentralization, is one of the most prominent effcts of the interactivity in the process of building the information scene. Thereby, traditional media must face the challenges involved in adapting the traditional journalism to the audience participation in content production and new ways of broadcasting. This study proposes an analysis of the communication strategies used by cybermedia on Twitter microblogging , emphasizing the adequacy of journalistic messages to the typical narrative of this digital environment. In order to make a comparison between Spain and Portugal, we have analyzed the profiles of the newspapers with the largest circulation in their countries of origin: El Pais (Spain) and Jornal de Noticias Portugal). The study reveals both the underutilization of Twitter’s conversational potential by both newspapers and the imminent need to set out style rules about the use of resources such as mentions or hashtags.

New challenges for an enduring code of journalistic ethics: the news media business model in the face of ethical standards and citizen participation

Technological advances have modified news media practices, introduced alternative formats for conveying information, and are transforming journalistic messages. However, the essential principles governing journalistic practice, those which the ethical codes support and enshrine, remain unaltered. The media outlets and journalists are not unaware of the necessary adaptations to their working lives which this situation demands, but editors and managers find it difficult to accept, and therefore incorporate, those emerging trends which would permit a real improvement in the quality of the products they create and offer to society: firstly, the introduction of ethical standards (ISO standards, ethics seals) into production, and secondly, the channelling of citizens’ active participation in the reporting process (transmedia storytelling, social media). These are only being assimilated slowly and ineffectively. The media sector business model has to embrace and integrate both these realities into its organization and production system in order to survive and truly fulfil its public service mission.

Periodismo y prehistoria: retos éticos en la comunicación social de la ciencia

The quantitative and qualitative analysis of journalistic messages about Prehistory (n =65) released in 2010 by leading Spanish newspapers (El País and El Mundo) show a glaring predominance of news against the interpretative genres, especially the in-depth report. The often institutional sources are poor and there is a worrying homogenization of expert voices. These newspapers present this discipline connected to education, entertainment, the cohesion of the community and the economic development.

Ideologia jako czynnik oddziałujący na przekaz dziennikarski. Analiza na podstawie materiałów z “The Times”, “The Sun” oraz “Pravda”

This paper analyzes the influence of ideology on the journalistic message on the basis of materials published about Alexander Litvinenko by The Times, The Sun and Pravda. The paper applies the concept presented by Teun A. van Dijk, who identifies the following aspects of message structure: lexical elements, implications, presuppositions, descriptions, cohesion, semantic events, semantic and external structures. The analysis involves the examples taken from the articles about the Litvinenko issue to show how ideologies and opinions can be present in the content of journalistic accounts.

Sobre las formas de reproducción del discurso ajeno en algunos textos periodísticos de la prensa italiana y española

In this work we focus on some Italian and Spanish journalistic articles from a pragmatic approach, as a communication phenomenon that becomes a starting point to analyze polyphony in the journalistic message. The essay en- cores a Multiplicity of voices that are an essential part of this kind of text, but also an attempt to assess the procedures of reported speech that underlies jour- nalistic cultures, in order to stand out, where possible, differences and analogies.

Tendências da Pesquisa em Jornalismo em Portugal: 1974-2010

This work seeks to draw the trends in Journalism Studies in Portugal between 1974 and the present time. It focuses on reading and reviewing Portuguese books, written by Portuguese authors, devoted to the research on journalism during that time. We conclude that, prior to 1974, essays were the main result of Portuguese journalism studies, but in more recent years essays were replaced by a scientific approach, marked, however, by theoretical and methodological hybridity. Nine trends can be identified on Portuguese journalism studies: 1) Journalism theory; 2) Journalistic production; 3) Sociology of journalists; 4) Journalism, politics, and democracy; 5) Analysis of journalistic messages; 6) History of journalism; 7) Journalistic media economics and management; 8) Journalism law and ethics; and 9) Proximity journalism. The most relevant of these research trends are: journalism history; journalistic messages analysis; and the processes of journalism production. We can include another field of research: newspaper’s ombudsmen views on journalists’ professional practices.

Audiovisual Webjournalism: An analysis of news on UOL News and on TV UERJ Online

This work shows the development of audiovisual webjournalism on the Brazilian Internet. This paper, based on the analysis of UOL News on UOL TV – pioneer format on commercial web television - and of UERJ Online TV – first on-line university television in Brazil - investigates the changes in the gathering, production and dissemination processes of audiovisual news when it starts to be transmitted through the web. Reflections of authors such as Herreros (2003), Manovich (2001) and Gosciola (2003) are used to discuss the construction of audiovisual narrative on the web. To comprehend the current changes in today’s webjournalism, we draw on the concepts developed by Fidler (1997); Bolter and Grusin (1998); Machado (2000); Mattos (2002) and Palacios (2003). We may conclude that the organization of narrative elements in cyberspace makes for the efficiency of journalistic messages, while establishing the basis of a particular language for audiovisual news on the Internet.