Journalistic Output Research Articles

Can informal lobbying be responsible? Evidence from Brussels

PurposeThis study links the notion of responsible strategic communication to the field of lobbying at the European (EU) level. It provides empirical findings on the relevance of informal interaction and communication in EU public affairs (PA). Focusing on functional expectations and uses tied to informality from an actors’ perspective, this study not only includes lobbyists and their attempts to gain influence on political actors but also attempts of lobbyists to control journalistic output through informal relationships and exchange mechanisms. The results are discussed with a view to further inform the concept of “responsible lobbying.”Design/methodology/approachBuilding on a theoretical background from strategic communication, informal politics and interest group research, findings from a qualitative content analysis of 43 semi-structured interviews with actors from PA (n = 27) and journalism (n = 16) at the EU level are reported, focusing on one policy case.FindingsThe study shows motives for establishing and using informality for both actor types. Functional expectations relate to a range of tasks at the core of the respective actors’ day-to-day activities: monitoring political developments, pre-negotiating policy options in protected, confidential spaces with political decision-makers, receiving relevant sectoral background information and “technical coaching” on legislative dossiers directed to journalists.Originality/valueStudies on lobbying have rarely been conducted from a strategic communications perspective, especially focusing the EU level. Albeit widely accepted, the understanding of lobbying and PA as an informal activity has not been scrutinized by academic research.

Multinational and Multimodal Character Framing of Political Candidates in Online News: Do Political and Media System Classifications Matter?

An evolving body of research generally referred to as visual politics has brought the heavy research focus on linguistic modalities of political communication closer to parity with visual emphasis. The study reported here transcends this schism by joining momentum toward multimodality as an ontological departure point for research. We expanded an existing visual instrument into a multimodal one and provided evidence that it reliably captures character framing of political candidates (stateliness, compassion, mass appeal, ordinariness, and sure loser) in German, Polish, and United States commercial online news. We focused on election coverage in these countries because they represent three distinct political and media systems (democratic-corporatist, polarized-pluralist, and hybrid) of the Global North. The quantitative content analysis sample we used spans 2,688 online news stories with seven political candidates identified in 6,560 cases across six modalities (still images, moving images, frozen video images, text, audio, and superimposed text). We found support for the hypothesis that political and media system latencies affect how news media frame the character traits of political candidates in both visual and linguistic modalities. Specifically, the competitive tendencies of majoritarian democracies manifested more clearly as candidate-centered, simplistic, and polarizing character framing in US media content than in journalistic output of multiparty consensus democracies. For example, US news media were more consistent in their portrayal of election winners and losers than German and Polish news media, emphasizing stateliness, compassion, and ordinariness in the winner while unambiguously assigning the negative sure loser frame to the election loser.

Automated Journalism in UK Local Newsrooms: Attitudes, Integration, Impact

ABSTRACT Automated journalism is increasingly used in news production in UK local newsrooms. Although scholars have been discussing the disruptive potential of automation for journalism, little is known about how local media practitioners deploy and perceive automated journalism. This study aims to help fill this research gap using semi-structured interviews with media practitioners from four local news companies that use automated journalism provided by the news automation service RADAR and with employees from RADAR itself. Our findings show that local journalists evaluate this type of automated journalism based on several occupational influences, that they integrate it into news reporting in various ways, and that their use of automated journalism has an impact on journalistic output and newsroom performance. Our evidence also shows that whilst most media practitioners perceive the relevance of automated journalism for local news reporting as limited and, instead, emphasise the importance of human agency in the journalism workflow, what they report is conversely a shift in their practices which actually suggests that automated journalism has greater impact than they are currently willing to acknowledge.

Conservative pedagogical thought of Count Stanisław Tarnowski

Stanisław Tarnowski is a well-known nineteenth-century politician, expert in literary history, university lecturer, and rector of the Jagiellonian University. Analyses of his legacy have been conducted mainly in political science and Polish studies. The pedagogical aspects of his work, on the other hand, have so far received little attention, although reflections on the education of young people can be found in some of his publications. Therefore, in an attempt to study the pedagogical perspective adopted by S. Tarnowski, the aim of this article was to reconstruct the pedagogical thought contained in his academic, oratorical and journalistic output. Attention was drawn to the conservative character of these views, resulting from the ideological approach he presented.

Just Copy and Paste? Usage and Patterns of Social Media Sources in Online Articles on Sport

Information sourcing in sports journalism changes with the process of news curation on the internet. In particular, social media is an important source for sports reporters, as athletes and organizations post content on a regular basis. Although how sports journalists use social media in their daily work routines has already been investigated, there is little knowledge on how social media is used as a source in sports reporting. However, with regard to a possible copy-and-paste trend and an impeding loss of relevance of journalistic content, results pertaining to the use of social media as a source would be helpful to evaluate journalistic output. By conducting a quantitative content analysis of 3,150 online articles of three German sports news providers, this author investigated the number and patterns of social media sources in journalistic articles. The results reveal, inter alia, that social media is crucial for human interest stories on athletes.

Nationalizing the International Style

Abstract In Nationalizing the International Style: The Formation of British Identity in the Architectural Criticism of P. Morton Shand, Alborz Dianat considers the critical role played by architectural journalist P. Morton Shand (1888–1960) in the debate that took place in the interwar period as British architecture grappled with the seemingly irreconcilable ideas of nationality and modernity. Drawing on an archive of correspondence only recently made public, Dianat shows how Shand assumed a position of leadership in efforts to nationalize architectural modernism in Britain. Shand’s journalistic output contributed to a broader movement calling for a return to Georgian precedents alongside international models, and British architects heeded that call. Shand promoted a new identity for British architecture internationally through his formal and informal networks, and Britain’s leading role in architectural discourse into and beyond World War II was bolstered by his work.

Kholikov, A. and Orlova, E., eds. (2021). Russian literature and journalism during the pre-revolutionary period: Forms of interaction and analysis methodology: A co-authored monograph. Moscow: IMLI RAN. (In Russ.)

The book’s three parts feature studies, publications and supplements which include contents descriptions of the newspaper Nov, the journal Bogema, and archival materials connected with the newspaper Russkoe Slovo. It is for the first time that a co-authored monograph has brought together authors united by their study of the fundamental question about the role of fiction in the shaping of the Russian cultural and social landscape ahead of the calamity that was revolution. The book discusses the following topics: the balance between fiction and journalism, the journal context and the methods of its study, the interconnectedness of artistic texts against the background of journalistic output, the perception of literature and its various modifications in central Russia and the country’s periphery, the literary trends that emerged at the turn of the century and their influence on the contents and aesthetic programs of periodicals, and journalists as fictional characters.

Climate Change Journalism in Norway—Working with Frequency Around the “Green Shift”

ABSTRACT This article traces the origins of the term of the green shift, which gained increased cultural, social and political traction in Norway after it was introduced in 2015 by journalist Anders Bjartnes, editor of Energi og klima (2011-). By looking at this outlet as well as two other contemporary niche media, Harvest (2013-) and Naturpress (2016-), we show how this term provided a way of working with frequency, one of the 12 news values outlined in Galtung and Ruge’s seminal study from 1965. Inspired by discourse-historical analysis, we base our article on interviews with the editors of the three outlets, their journalistic output as well as on contextual material in order to show how the slow, uneven, global and partially invisible process of climate change was given a different temporal frame through the notion of the green shift. By addressing notions of frequency in relation to a specific time and context, we speak, on the one hand, to discussions about how an event-driven journalism struggles with the complex temporalities of climate change and, on the other, to recurrent calls for providing a more “context-driven reflection on the value and legacy of Galtung and Ruge” [Joye, Stijn, Ansgard Heinrich, and Romy Wöhler. 2016. “50 Years of Galtung and Ruge: Reflections on Their Model of News Values and its Relevance for the Study of Journalism and Communication Today.” CM Komunikacija i Mmediji 36: 5–28].

Mandelstam's Worlds: Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age by Andrew Kahn

Reviewed by: Mandelstam's Worlds: Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age by Andrew Kahn Alexandra K. Harrington Mandelstam's Worlds: Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age. By Andrew Kahn. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020. xix+672 pp. £85. ISBN 978-0-29-885793-8. Andrew Kahn's achievement in this substantial study is to provide a robust counter to the prevailing view of Mandelstam as a poet outcast and victim who was ambivalent about politics, who felt sidelined after the late 1920s, and who consequently retreated into increasingly self-referential poetic practice. This image of Mandelstam was largely shaped, as Kahn observes, by the dual forces of canonizing life-writing on the one hand, and influential scholarship focused on the intertextual aspects of the poetry on the other. By adopting an interpretative approach aimed at the multiple contexts—political, scientific, biographical, philosophical, emotional, and so on—that informed the poet's thought, Kahn successfully demonstrates both Mandelstam's intensive engagement with the specifics of the political realities of his age and the extent to which forms of visualization played a crucial and pervasive role in his poetics. Individual chapters typically centre on detailed readings of key poems. By bringing text into sustained dialogue with context, and including close examinations of Mandelstam's journalistic output from the 1920s, Kahn produces effective, revisionist readings. His discussion of the 'Slate Ode', which sees it as a challenge to Marxist political thought on consciousness, is a case in point. Another example is his exploration of 'Verses on Russian Poetry' as a response to contemporary debates about aesthetics and the canon. In a thoughtful reading of the ambiguous and contentious 'Ode to Stalin', Kahn mediates between polarized interpretations of it as an expression either of frightened defeat or of ironic defiance. Onto the conventions of the ode, he argues, is 'imposed the superstructure of Stalin's own carefully controlled image-making machine' so that (in ways that respond to the legacy of Derzhavin) the poem pays tribute to Stalin's power while serving ultimately as a 'commemoration of the poet rather than the leader' (p. 565). Inevitably, given the sheer range of poems treated, some readings are more comprehensively persuasive than others. Mandelstam's lyric 'Impressionism', as Kahn notes, is not precisely ekphrastic, aiming rather 'to give an impression of Impressionism' (p. 326), in the form of the viewer's (and an imagined interlocutor's) [End Page 315] impressionistic response. It is therefore unclear, to this reader at least, why Kahn reads the indistinct 'veils' mentioned in the poem as food coverings: Mandelstam's cooking metaphor arises from play on maslo (oil paint/butter), but nonetheless this interpretation seems something of a stretch. Unsurprisingly for a scholarly undertaking on this scale, some minor errors and slips occur. For instance, the title of Clare Cavanagh's study of Mandelstam is truncated in a note (p. 2), 'patent' should presumably read 'patient' (p. 86), and Emma Gershtein is quoted (p. 222) without any note or reference in the bibliography. Citations from Iurii Tynianov (p. 233) and Lidiia Ginzburg (p. 348) also lack references. The title of the poem 'Distant landmarks of a train of carts' is rendered alternatively as 'Distant landmarks of a convoy' in the main text (p. 528). Jan Plamper appears as John Plamper (p. 555). Mandelstam's widow and memoirist, herself a remarkable writer, as Kahn observes, is often referred to as 'Mrs Mandelstam' (pp. 247, 263, and elsewhere). Some expected references to scholarship are absent—there is a larger body of research on Mandelstam and cinema, for instance, than is explicitly acknowledged. Mandelstam is a challenging poet, and this is consequently a densely argued, wide-ranging volume. Overall, Kahn's extensive study undoubtedly provides a significant and welcome contribution to our understanding of Mandelstam's post-Acmeist poetry and its development. Alexandra K. Harrington Durham University Copyright © 2022 Modern Humanities Research Association

Cobertura mediática local del cambio climático en ciudades costeras: Selsey (Reino Unido), Santos (Brasil) y Broward County (EEUU)

Climate change media coverage has been criticized for giving voice to denialist sources and for its detachment from local and individual experiences, emphasizing catastrophic and global impacts. This article seeks to understand the potential connection between regional media and local climate change meanings through analysis of the journalistic output in regional newspapers in three vulnerable coastal cities that have presented developments regarding local climate governance: Santos (Brazil), Selsey (UK) and Broward County (USA). The vehicles analyzed in each of the cities are A Tribuna de Santos, The Chichester Observer and The Sun Sentinel, respectively. The method used is quantitative content analysis, focusing on the appearance of sources and recurring local issues and symbols on the climate change coverage of these regional vehicles. As a result, there are interesting differences of sources and issues between regions, with beaches and shoreline neighborhoods condensing the attention over climate impacts in Santos and Broward; and the dangers of real estate development in lowlying land and natural reserves occupying the center of attention in Selsey. Among the three locations, only Broward presented a significant degree of climate denialist sources.

HOW INDIAN NEWSROOMS POD: STUDYING THE PRACTICES OF JOURNALISTIC PODCASTING IN INDIA

The modern digital newsrooms produce journalistic output in multiple new content formats, podcasting being one of them. This study presents different contours of podcasting as practiced in the Indian newsrooms through the study of journalistic practices associated with it. Based on fieldwork in newsrooms as well as in-depth interviews, the study tells that the news selection practices for podcasting show a different set of news values emerging. The role of the audience in podcast production as well as the headlining function was also examined. The journalists were found to employ a more interpretive, narrative style of storytelling, moving away from the old journalistic norm of objectivity. Furthermore, these journalists were found to understand podcasting as a form of ‘slow journalism and consciously employing the slow techniques in their practice, conceptualizing podcasts as a necessary break in the modern day news work that is ‘always on’.

Journalism Civic Self-Efficacy: Predicting Political Participation Among Secondary-School Journalism Students

ABSTRACT This study builds on the communication mediation model of political socialization and self-efficacy research, and focuses on journalism civic self-efficacy, an individual’s confidence in using journalistic skills to promote the awareness of a community issue. The study tests the premise that journalism civic self-efficacy explains, in part, how journalism education supports individuals’ political participation, by examining links between political interest, journalism civic self-efficacy, school and classroom contexts, and future political participation with data from U.S. high school journalists (n = 769) and their teachers (n = 42). The study’s key results are: (1) journalism civic self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between political interest and prospective political participation, and (2) journalism civic self-efficacy increases when students feel a supportive school climate and when their instructors exert little control over students’ journalistic output. These results can inform the design of journalism education and outreach initiatives, prioritizing activities and settings that cultivate journalism civic self-efficacy among participants. The findings also highlight the value of such initiatives regardless of whether or not participants pursue newsroom careers. The study contributes empirical evidence to civic development literature of a pathway between journalism education and political participation, distinct from other school-sponsored activities (i.e., debate, student government).

Kulturowy aspekt retoryki niegrzeczności na przykładzie utworów Herty Müller

Celem artykułu jest analiza porównawcza twórczości literackiej i publicystycznej Herty Müller oraz jej recepcji w odniesieniu do retoryki niegrzeczności. W krótkim studium badawczym zostały poddane analizie jej wybrane utwory literackie oraz eseje. W pierwszej kolejności autor zajął się kwestią wielokulturowości, a następnie elementami retorycznymi w tekstach Müller. W analizie zostały krótko przedstawione różnice między dwoma narodami oraz językami, czyli między niemieckim a rumuńskim. Artykuł porusza także kwestię technik manipulacji stosowanych przez dyktaturę oraz perswazyjną siłę języka.

Finkelstein, I. (2018). Hemingway the novelist. The 1920s and 1930s. Moscow: IF ‘Uniserv’. (In Russ.)

First published in 1974, the monograph Hemingway the novelist. The 1920s and 1930s by Iosif Finkelstein (1920-1980), a lecturer at the Gorky State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, remains largely relevant many years on. The research is done with the objective of tracing the writer’s evolution from his 1920s early prose to his 1930s novels and to describe their ideological, artistic and poetical aspects. The researcher approaches the task from a very broad perspective, touching on historical, literary, biographical, and intertextual aspects. Far from examining the four novels at the core of this monograph in isolation, the scholar undertakes to analyze a variety of the writer’s smaller prose, journalistic output, and his later works. Finkelstein views Hemingway’s legacy a solid textual continuity, defined by semantic and stylistic coherence. Another valuable aspect is the book’s polemic quality and response to the work of fellow Hemingway scholars.

Nostalgia and style: the life and works of Abdülhak Şinâsî Hisar

Abdülhak Şinâsî Hisar, a famous writer whose active career may be said to have spanned over the first 60 years of the 20th century, is celebrated within Turkey for his inimitable prose style, steeped in nostalgia and expressed with great elegance and charm. His three short novels, based both on his childhood memories of life and on depicting characters he observed in an Ottoman capital that once had a sparkling civilization, and his biographies of major writers who were his friends, along with his essays on literary criticism and his prolific journalistic output, have assured him a place in the front rank of Turkish literary figures.

Hacia la Hispanidad, a través de Londres. La influencia de la estancia británica de Ramiro de Maeztu en la creación de un ideario hispanoamericanista (1905-1934)

En su influyente ensayo Defensa de la Hispanidad (1934), Ramiro de Maeztu reivindicó la colonización española de América y argumentó que los rasgos culturales compartidos que resultaban de esa experiencia histórica debían vertebrar una colaboración entre las naciones de habla hispana. Pese a la creencia de que Maeztu desarrolló estas ideas en 1928-30, cuando era embajador en Argentina, sus textos periodísticos muestran que muchas estaban articuladas ya en 1911-12, cuando era corresponsal en Reino Unido. Esto nos anima a revisar el papel del Londres eduardiano en la génesis del ideario hispanoamericanista de Maeztu. Por un lado, le permitió entablar amistad con intelectuales hispanoamericanos como los redactores de la revista Hispania; por otro, le expuso a los debates que los británicos libraban acerca de su propio Imperio. La Hispanidad aparece así como parte de un movimiento de revisión de la colonización europea y el devenir de los antiguos proyectos coloniales.

News Work: The Impact of Corporate-implemented Technology on Local Television Newsroom Labor

ABSTRACT By virtue of their licenses, local television stations in the United States must serve in the public interest of their communities. Because many stations’ ownership is by corporate conglomerates, however, that public interest is often considered secondary to revenue maximization. Labor is exploited to meet this goal, with technology deployed in newsrooms to consolidate job descriptions, replace human labor with computers, and add sales-ready content platforms, while drawing as much surplus value from workers as possible. This study sought out newsroom employees, including rarely-studied behind the scenes personnel, in the 25 largest metropolitan areas of the country to find out how this utilization of technology affected their journalistic work routines and output. Their responses via online surveys and semi-structured interviews highlight the challenges of juggling ever-increasing tech-enabled job responsibilities while still providing quality reports for their audiences in a corporate ownership environment focused on profits.

I Know Why the Philosopher Sings: Exploring the Work of Fabrice Hadjadj

I Know Why the Philosopher SingsExploring the Work of Fabrice Hadjadj Brian Sudlow (bio) In French Catholic circles, Fabrice Hadjadj (1971–) is one of the most extraordinarily versatile thinkers, writers, and artists since Gabriel Marcel, himself a philosopher, essayist, dramatist, and composer. On top of his journalistic output in a diverse range of publications (notably in Le Figaro and Avvenire), Hadjadj's extensive oeuvre which is now approaching thirty works—including essays, plays, art criticism, works of exegesis and original songs—has earned him a series of critical accolades: the Grand prix catholique de littérature (2006) for Réussir sa mort. Anti-méthode pour vivre (2005), the Prix du cercle Montherlant-Académie des Beaux Art (2008) for L'Agneau mystique (2008), the Prix de littérature religieuse (2010) for La Foi des démons ou l'athéisme dépassé (2009), and the Prix des Libraires Siloë-Pèlerin (2017) for Résurrection: mode d'emploi (2016). Hadjadj is as highly fluent and prolific a speaker as he is a writer. Many of his speeches on national and international platforms can be found on YouTube, and of his invitations those including the Scouts de l'Europe and international meetings of the Communion and Liberation Movement. These diverse invitations result from the increasing esteem in [End Page 78] which Hadjadj is held. Currently director of studies at the Philanthropos Institute in Fribourg, Switzerland, Hadjadj served a two-year term from 2014–16 as a consultant to the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Laity. The widely read French leftist newspaper Libération has identified Hadjadj as the "maître à penser—the leading thinker" of the French "cathosphère,"1 and Archbishop Charles Chaput describes him as "one of the finest Catholic minds for decades."2 The profound impression Hadjadj frequently makes outside literary and theological circles was captured most eloquently in a talk given by Laurent Lafforgue, the French educational reformer and Fields-Medal winning mathematician: "[Hadjadj's] pages often leave me dumbfounded and catch me off balance, but in reading them I recognise their accuracy and truth. No contemporary writer of French interests me more."3 One other striking fact about Hadjadj is that he had devoted much of his intellectual power and undoubted verve to crossing the divide between serious philosophy—he is often introduced as a holder of the agrégation de philosophie, one of France's most distinguished academic titles—and popular culture. As his growing bibliography demonstrates, Hadjadj is a creative and disciplinary chameleon, or perhaps a subversive of literary invention, who blends, transforms, or undermines standard text types in multiple ways, constantly swapping philosophy for theology, essay for theatre, and art commentary for song writing (Nos vies quotidiennes, his first album, was released in 2017). At the same time, his pushing of interdisciplinarity to the extreme—his imbrication of theological investigation with philosophical discourse, or social criticism with lyric creativity—may explain why he remains one of contemporary French culture's most provocative yet least studied religious thinkers and literary artists. There are no monographs dedicated to his voluminous and otherwise sympathetically received output and hardly a trace of discussion about him in learned journals. Arguably, biographical factors play a part in what ostensibly appears as his decided marginality. He describes himself as "un juif de nom arabe et de confession catholique—a Jew with an Arab name and a practicing Catholic," any part of which [End Page 79] profile is guaranteed to offend some constituency of French opinion.4 With Hadjadj, however, the paradoxes seem endless: this Jewish Catholic family man with eight children and counting, acknowledges today his debt to Nietzsche, the author of the death of God, happily celebrates the language of the notorious anti-Semite novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine and, in his 2018 Lenten Conferences at Notre Dame, cited controversial French novelist Michel Houellebecq more than any other contemporary author.5 For all that, Hadjadj expresses no resentment about his own relative obscurity, dismissing the hypothesis that he is akin to one of Paul Verlaine's accursed poets, living in some unhappy ghetto of cultural and social infamy. On the contrary, he evinces sincere...

Jędrzej Śniadecki i jego dziedzictwo. Sesja Nadzwyczajna podczas 61. Zjazdu Naukowego Polskiego Towarzystwa Chemicznego

Jędrzej Śniadecki and his legacy. Extraordinary Session at the 61st Scientific Meeting of the Polish Chemical Society The year 2018 marked the 250th birthday anniversary of Jędrzej Śniadecki (30 Nov 1768–11 May 1838), a renowned Polish chemist, doctor and columnist. Jędrzej, the younger brother of Jan Śniadecki, a Polish mathematician and astronomer, was born in Radlewo near Żnin in Greater Poland. His family and professional life was associated with Vilnius. From 1803, he was a professor of chemistry and medicine at the Principal School of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which then became the Imperial University of Vilnius. He was the author of the first chemistry textbook in Polish (1800) and an innovative work entitled Teoria jestestw organicznych (Theory of Organic Beings) (1804). The birthday of Jędrzej Śniadecki was celebrated in the three countries to which his fate was tied: Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. Celebrations in Poland: The year-long celebrations in Poland started on 28 January 2018 with a concert at the Main University Auditorium of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. It was organized by the PoznańSociety of Jędrzej Śniadecki, Karol Olszewski and Zygmunt Wróblewski. In March 2018, celebrations were inaugurated by the town of Żnin, with the event being attended by descendants of the Śniadecki family: Prof. Antonina Magdalena Śniadecki-‑Kotarska, Senator Piotr Łukasz Juliusz Andrzejewski and Krzysztof Śniadecki-Lempke. A lecture on Jędrzej Śniadecki and the Society of Rascals was delivered by Emilia Maria Iwaszkiewicz, PhD, from Vilnius University. The University of Science and Technology in Bydgoszcz (UTP) also commemorated the scholars it has chosen as its namesakes, that is Jan Śniadecki and Jędrzej Śniadecki. A report on the event and an article by Emilia M. Iwaszkiewicz, PhD, are available in Magazyn UTP Format 2.0 No. 3 from July 2018. In Kraków, during the 61st Scientific Meeting of the Polish Chemical Society, a session was organized entitled “Jędrzej Śniadecki and his legacy”. During the session, five papers were delivered which presented Jędrzej Śniadecki, his academic and journalistic output and memorabilia related to him. Celebrations in Lithuania: On 10 September 2018, Vilnius City Hall held a conference attended by Urszula Doroszewska, the Polish ambassador to Lithuania, and Edyta Tamošiūnaitė, the Deputy Mayor of Vilnius, as well as Polish and Lithuanian scholars. On 11–13 October 2018, at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences was held the 4th Oxygenalia International Conference. Belarus: The memory of Jędrzej Śniadecki is also cherished in Belarus, especially in Gorodniki where he is buried and at the nearby school in Kolchuny, which houses a small museum commemorating him and other scholars with ties to this region.

La vigilancia del anarquismo en la prensa de Buenos Aires a comienzos del siglo XX

The article reconstructs the way the Buenos Aires police used to its advantage the increase in crime news in the Buenos Aires press in the first years of the twentieth century. This news, which often presented police action in order to criticise it, also provided the possibility for the police to make a good impression. To research this productive area of contact for the police, the article focuses on the news coverage of anarchist attacks frustrated by the Comisaria de Investigaciones (Bureau of Investigations), the division responsible for monitoring anarchists in Buenos Aires. This focus is justified because anarchism was a powerful local social movement, and due to its use bombs and assassinations of major international political figures it was firmly installed in the city press as an issue of enormous journalistic output. Hence the article argues that anarchism in the press provided the possibility for the police to dignify their work, reward officers, and demonstrate their competence in anticipating terrorist attacks in the city.