National News Agencies Research Articles

Millions of climate refugees are coming!’ A critical media discourse analysis on climate change-induced migrants in Flemish press

ABSTRACT The rise in research, policy and news on climate change-induced migration has grown exponentially over the last two decades. Migration related to global warming is increasingly portrayed as inevitable and used to mobilise people to act immediately against climate change. By analysing the discourse of two Flemish news media journals (De Standaard and Het Laatste Nieuws) and the Belgian national news agency (Belga), indexed by the GoPress database (1985–2022), this paper aims to present how migration and climate change are linked to each other in the media, how this differs across media outlets, and reflects on potential outcomes of this framing. Results indicate that climate-induced migration is often portrayed in an apocalyptic way and seen as an inevitable threat that needs to be avoided. The used terminology and the portrayals of climate change-induced migration are not in line with the scientific evidence on this topic.

ANALYSIS OF ZHONGDANG PAN AND GERALD M KOSICKI’S FRAMING ON NEWS REJECTION OF ROHINGNYA REFUGEES IN ACEH BESAR (STUDY ON ANTARANEWS.COM AND DETIK.COM)

This research aims to analyze the framing techniques of Antaranews.com and Detik.com media in reporting on Rohingya refugees on December 11 2023. This is interesting because the two media come from different ownership; Antaranews.com is managed by the Antara National News Agency (LKBN Antara), which is a State-Owned Enterprise (BUMN) in the news agency sector, while Detik.com is under the private company PT Trans Digital Media. The author uses the framing analysis model of Zhong Dang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki to divide this news frame into 4 structural dimensions, namely syntax, script, thematic and rhetorical. The results of the research show that the framing of news about the rejection of Rohingya refugees in Aceh on December 11 2023 written by Antaranews.com was more balanced than Detik.com in presenting the news. The selection of quotes and photos included makes the reporting construction carried out by Antaranews.com try to direct public opinion to see from both sides, the Rohingya refugees and the residents of Ladong Aceh Besar. Meanwhile, Detik.com has not fulfilled the 5W+1H principle and does not write news from both sides of the point of view.

The Research on the Characteristics of Visual Reporting by China's National News Agency Xinhua

In recent years, data-driven news has also become the reporting method of many news media. Xinhua News Agency's visual report has been rapidly developing in the field of news dissemination and has become a breakthrough form of reporting, which has aroused widespread attention through a series of science and technology as well as new forms of reporting. Through a variety of forms, Xinhua News Agency is able to transform abstract data and complex events into intuitive and easy-to-understand images and animations, making the information closer to the audience and easier to understand and remember. The development of visualization reporting by Xinhua News Agency has had a revolutionary impact in the field of news dissemination. Through innovative multimedia means, the reports not only enhance the effect of information conveyance. This type of reporting not only meets the audience's demand for diverse information, but also promotes the innovation and development of the news industry. This paper aims to analyze the development process of Xinhua News Agency's visualization reports as well as to analyze typical cases of Xinhua News Agency's visualization reports.

A Brief Analysis of the Status Quo of China-Related Reports in Five Central Asian Countries and Suggestions for Accurate Dissemination

Taking the China-Central Asia Summit as the core case, this paper analyzes the content of China-related reports by the national news agencies of the five Central Asian countries in Chinese, English and Russian. It subordinates with three levels (high, middle and low levels) and nine variables, ten dimensions including politics, economy, culture and education etc., deeply analyzes the image of China built by the mainstream media of Central Asia and its communication effect. The research results show that, in general, the Central Asian media have a profound image of China and a both neutral and positive attitude towards China. Specifically, there are great differences in communication topics, methods and effects, lacking of multiple perspectives, and lack of precision in international communication. In this regard, based on the practice of China's home diplomacy, the paper discusses the feasible path to carry out accurate communication for Central Asia and expand international communication for the world, in order to form a complementary trend with domestic and foreign media and deeply improve China's international status and influence.

How does a national, multilingual news agency contribute to news diversity? A mixed-methods case study

News agencies are regularly mentioned in scholarly works among the principal sources of information for legacy news organisations and titles, particularly in the 24/7 online news environment. However, little is known about how these agencies themselves source news. To fill this gap in scholarship, we present a case study of how Belgium’s national, multilingual news agency sources its science news. We first position our study within a conceptual framework combining insights from news diversity and translation studies research. Next, we operationalise a triangulation of a content analysis, a survey, and interviews with newsroom staff to shed light on the practices and policies that shape and constrain the inner workings of a national news agency in a small, multilingual media market. Our findings reveal a large, potentially worrying, dependency on information subsidies and their assumed factuality from press releases and other news agencies, largely sourced locally. We contextualise our findings within wider news agency and science journalism research.

Facilitating direct patient access to safety information about their breast implant: A Patient Access Tool sourced by the Dutch Breast Implant Registry

Facilitating direct patient access to safety information about their breast implant: A Patient Access Tool sourced by the Dutch Breast Implant Registry

Uloga i značaj Novinske agencije Srna u medijskom prostoru Republike Srpske

News agencies function as 'wholesalers' of news, collecting news from various parts of the world, shaping it, and distributing it to their clients, mainly traditional mass media, and/or end users, the audience. Since their beginnings in the 19th century, agencies have been essential 'gatekeepers' defining the 'agenda' of mass media and, thus, practically the entire world. Additionally, news agencies represent a pillar of national identity, similar to the national bank, the army, or the post office; they symbolise statehood. Countries that were liberated in waves of anti-colonial struggles, immediately before or shortly after gaining independence, started their own national news agencies, representing one of the symbols of their independence. The Srna is the first and only news agency in the Republic of Srpska, and one of the leading agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, servicing a large number of mass media with its content. Since its inception, the Srna news agency has performed its informative role, maintaining a developed network of correspondents in the country, as well as in all major centers in Europe and around the world. The Srna also keeps pace with modern technological challenges; since its inception, it has offered photo and phono services, and since 2016, it has also provided video services, making it one of the most advanced modern news agencies. It can be said that the Srna has been essentially a witness, but also a participant, in all major socio-political, cultural, and historical events in the Republic of Srpska. However, the agency not only mediates information and news but also, in times of crisis, contributes to a kind of social homogenisation. As part of international communication highways, this agency represents an important agent of international communication. The inclusion of Srna in international communication highways, through which all major news in the world travels, has been an important part of a kind of international and political affirmation of the Republic of Srpska. Therefore, it can be said that the Srna news agency was actually created based on two primary goals: first, to inform domestic media and the public about the most significant local and global events, and secondly, to inform the world about events in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Srpska. Finally, the Srna was one of the main drivers of cultural life in the Republic of Srpska in the early nineties of the 20th century. As an important media company, an agent of international communication, and an important initiator of cultural life, among other things, this enterprise was the initiator of the establishment of cultural institutions (Srna film, Srna fest), a sponsor of various cultural events (Monodrama Festival of the Republic of Srpska), and it appeared as a publisher of books by domestic writers.

The pharmaceutical industry is dangerous to health. Further proof with COVID-19.

The COVID-19 period highlights a huge problem that has been developing for decades, the control of science by industry. In the 1950s, the tobacco industry set the example, which the pharmaceutical industry followed. Since then, the latter has been regularly condemned for illegal marketing, misrepresentation of experimental results, dissimulation of information about the dangers of drugs, and considered as criminal. Therefore, this study was conducted to show that knowledge is powerfully manipulated by harmful corporations, whose goals are: 1/financial; 2/to suppress our ability to make choices to acquire global control of public health. Pharmaceutical industry techniques for manipulating science and COVID-19 reporting were reviewed. Several sources of official documents were used: PubMed; National Institutes of Health resources; pharmaceutical companies; policy documents; national newspapers and news agencies; and books by prominent professionals (scientific and legal). A few studies have not been published in peer-reviewed journals; however, they have been conducted by reputable scientists in their respective fields. Since the beginning of COVID-19, we can list the following methods of information manipulation which have been used: falsified clinical trials and inaccessible data; fake or conflict-of-interest studies; concealment of vaccines' short-term side effects and total lack of knowledge of the long-term effects of COVID-19 vaccination; doubtful composition of vaccines; inadequate testing methods; governments and international organizations under conflicts of interest; bribed physicians; the denigration of renowned scientists; the banning of all alternative effective treatments; unscientific and liberticidal social methods; government use of behavior modification and social engineering techniques to impose confinements, masks, and vaccine acceptance; scientific censorship by the media. By supporting and selecting only the one side of science information while suppressing alternative viewpoints, and with obvious conflicts of interest revealed by this study, governments and the media constantly disinform the public. Consequently, the unscientifically validated vaccination laws, originating from industry-controlled medical science, led to the adoption of social measures for the supposed protection of the public but which became serious threats to the health and freedoms of the population.

The Impacts of the Political Uncertainty on the Currency Exchange Rate

This paper examines the impacts of political uncertainty on the currency exchange rate, taking the fluctuation of the LBP exchange rate against USD dollar in the black market as a practical case. It shed light on the most important political events and decisions that happened in Lebanon and the region during the period (2019-2021) and linked it directly to the currency exchange rate, to show the impacts of the political instability on the LBP/USD exchange rate. We depend on the daily observations of the LBP exchange rate in the central bank and black market to perform empirical tests and regression models and we gathered the political events and news from the National News Agency (NNA). The results show that political uncertainty and instability have a direct impact on the currency exchange rate.

Thematic Analysis on COVID-19 Photojournalism in Indonesia

The spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia is massive in terms of sufferers. This article aims to seek how national photo news agency ANTARA visualized the pandemic as part of contribution to COVID-19 research in the communication field. By utilizing thematic analysis and qualitative approach, the researchers want to identify, analyze, organize, describe, and report particular themes within an extensive data set of 466 photojournalism. The photos collected from www.antarafoto.com, start from 1 May until 12 May 2020. The finding shows that ANTARA visualized the current Indonesian condition of facing COVID-19 in 8 main themes, determined the countless efforts of ANTARA photojournalists working with a new protocol, and simultaneously also face the new resistance from society. The most popular theme produced by ANTARA photojournalists is economics (183 photos), Social (164), and health (80). Discussion on the most popular is divided into specific topics, namely location, subject’s gender, photographic approach, image format, and news photo category. By utilizing visual ethics on the field, photojournalists communicate the symbols and reality of the real world into a frame to change people’s views about COVID-19 amid the increasingly uncontrolled infodemic flow.

Accountability disclosure of SOEs: comparing hybrid and private European news agencies

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the financial and non-financial accountability disclosure patterns of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), as hybrid organizations.Design/methodology/approachAdopting the hybridity concept and resorting to stakeholder theory, this paper works on a comparison between the accountability disclosure patterns of hybrid and private organizations operating in the same industry. European national news agencies are selected as units of analysis and an extensive web content analysis is performed on three categories of information.FindingsSOEs are found to disclose a broader spectrum of information than private organizations, and differences between them have been found. Nevertheless, both financial and non-financial disclosures are underdeveloped in the two organizational types.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper illustrates how hybridity explains SOEs’ accountability disclosure patterns. Results could not be complemented through information on disclosure through alternative channels. Future studies are encouraged to perform simultaneous comparisons among hybrid, public and private organizations, as well as considering industry specifics.Practical implicationsAs web accountability disclosure helps to address the demands of distant stakeholders, efforts are needed to enhance SOEs’ web accountability disclosures and not to undermine democratic accountability relationships.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the accountability mechanisms and style of SOEs. Using a framework for hybrid organizations provides an understanding of how SOEs, as hybrid organizations, disclose information for accountability. In turn, this allows, and then promotes, the investigation of social phenomena by conceiving hybridity as a standalone institutional space.

Role of Ministerial media arms during COVID-19 in Malaysia

The recent outbreak of novel corona virus known as COVID-19, has caused over 556.335 deaths, left more than 12 million infected people worldwide by 11th of July 2020 (Organization, 2020a), in addition to global negative impact on nearly most life sectors. Media played -and still- a vital role in the containment of this global health threat by spreading the essential knowledge and awareness between people. Comparing to its neighbours, Malaysia seems to have good score in the battle of COVID-19. With 8,815 confirmed cases, 8,562 total discharged cases and 123 deaths by 21th of July 2020 (Malaysia, 2020), it was interesting to study the role of media in shaping people's awareness during the current global crisis to face the danger of such virus on the national level. Aim: To analyse and understand the Malaysian government role in shaping people’s awareness toward COVID-19. Method: Authors are tracking and analysing the ministerial media arms role in handling the situation, based on the official data and statements released by the national news agency, Bernama. This article is divided into three main parts as it discusses the role of three specific governmental official; Prime Minister, General Director of Ministry of Health, and Senior Security Minister, Findings: The Malaysian governmental officials namely; Prime Minister, General Director of Ministry of Health, and Senior Security Minister followed a successful strategy during COVID-19 pandemic to rely a part on people’s awareness by providing them with the accurate information to avoid the viral spread of fake news. Conclusion: Malaysia was able to contain the pandemic on the national level powered by people’s awareness

Potential of commodity benchmarks regulation in Ukraine: EU experience

In their activities, state bodies and state-owned enterprises of Ukraine constantly turn to reference prices published by national and foreign news agencies, as evidenced by both regulations and data from the e-procurement system. However, the lack of definition or established practice of translation and application of terms related to this area indicates the underdevelopment or initial stage of harmonization of Ukraine's and other countries’ economic practice. We state that the issue of benchmarks regulation is relevant at the level of state economic decisions, given the specific impact of specialized news agencies on economic processes. Thus, the purpose of this study is to present ways of possible state regulation of commodity benchmarks in Ukraine. We determined that relations in the field of benchmarks in Ukraine are not provided with a legislative framework in full measure. Thus, it is characterized by discreteness, although the reference to benchmarks is carried out not only by business entities but also by government agencies. Therefore, some measures are proposed to regulate the field of benchmarks. Ukraine has a possibility to rely on the European experience, critically evaluate it and take the most important aspects of regulation, given the initial stage of development of the benchmark system in Ukraine. In particular, one of the possible actions is to establish a reference register of benchmarks. Furthermore, price reporting agencies and other benchmark-related economic actors might be recommended to bring their methodology and activities in line with IOSCO principles, as the clarity and transparency of market assessment are, among other things, a guarantee of objectively effective performance of tasks for taxation and in the public procurement.

Participative Gatekeeping: The Intersection of News, Audience Data, Newsworkers, and Economics

The use of metrics and analytics is becoming pervasive in newsrooms the world over. However, there is a lack of consistent terminology in scholarly literature with regards to such practice and a dearth of studies that compare practice on a wider scale that prevents more holistic understanding of how audience data are being used on the newsroom floor. These issues are addressed with the development of a new participative gatekeeping model with three previously unidentified channels of gatekeeping specifically related to the use of audience data: promotional, for the type of short-term gatekeeping done on news site homepages that involves tracking real-time metrics to position content, often tied to traffic targets; developmental, or longer-term strategies that shape future coverage and are grounded in hypotheses of audience behaviour gleaned from analytics; and a third more porous channel of experimentation where such hypotheses are tested. These channels were observed in ethnographic research in six newsrooms in three different countries at media outlets with diverse sources of revenue: Norway’s public broadcaster, NRK; Canada’s subscriber-based national news agency, The Canadian Press (CP); and two local newsrooms working within larger media organizations, The Hamilton Spectator in Canada, and The Bournemouth Daily Echo in England. Through a sociological lens, this article distinguishes language to best document the complex processes interconnected with audience data, identifies similarities in practice that override media or revenue systems, and explores how the audience, through the participatory mechanisms of metrics and analytics, shapes newsroom practice.

KALKINMAK İÇİN BÖLGESEL İŞBİRLİĞİ TEŞKİLATI ÜYESİ ÜLKELER ARASINDA KÜLTÜREL İŞBİRLİĞİ

Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, which are members of the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD), are countries that share the same geography. The cultural ties between these three countries, which have common cultural heritage, date back to ancient times. RCD was established in Istanbul on July 21, 1964 in order to ensure cooperation in cultural, economic and technical fields. RDC carried out its work with the reports prepared by the “Regional Cooperation Working Groups for Development” as a result of the work of sub-committees such as the “Cultural Cooperation Committee”, and the reports of the “Regional Planning Committee” that brought together these reports. These reports were discussed and implemented in the meetings of the Council of Ministers most recently. Twelve of the Council of Ministers meetings between 1964-1970, which were the subject of the study, were determined. It is understood from these that the Council of Ministers Meeting is held twice a year. These meetings were held in important cities of the member countries. A joint statement was published after each meeting. These papers include what has been done in every field and what is planned to be done. Original texts of the papers were written in English. The aim of the study is to investigate cultural cooperation and promotional activities carried out by RCD between 1964-1970. The research concluded that RCD members gave importance to cultural cooperation. RCD established a "Regional Culture Institute" in Tehran to investigate the common historical and cultural heritage of the three countries. In three countries, activities such as scientific meetings and exchange of professors and students, opening cultural centers, organizing sports tournaments, exchanging cultural delegations were carried out. In terms of promotion, practices such as assigning promotion attachés of three countries to each other, ensuring cooperation between the heads of the countries' radio organizations and national news agencies, exchanging cultural, news and documentary films, publishing English news bulletins, illustrated magazines and posters in national languages were implemented. In addition, within the scope of the cultural union, practices of changing folklore, music team, violinist, artist, film, book and cultural team were adopted. Objectives such as organizing seminars on educational subjects, writing biographies of important poets, science steps, educators, and ensuring cooperation between women in the region were determined. Decisions such as establishing a promotion agency, mutually appointing cultural attachés, establishing a College of Economics and Political Sciences belonging to the RCD were taken. Activities such as opening exhibitions and making presentations at fairs were carried out. Various activities on culture like these were carried out.

Media Coverage of Syrian Female Refugees in Jordan and Lebanon

Jordan and Lebanon are among the predominantly affected countries by the Syrian civil war that began after the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2011. Hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians, including women and children, moved to these two countries. As media plays an integral role in shaping societies and framing the world around us, this study explores the representation of Syrian female refugees in Jordan News Agency (Petra) and Lebanon National News Agency (NNA). It uses a 13-million-word corpus of Arabic news articles from 2012 to 2016. These 5 years represent the peak of the Syrian refugee crisis, and the media coverage of it was extensive and thorough. Adopting a corpus-assisted discourse approach to analyze the data yielded eight main categories that were recurrent in the news of the two agencies, namely, suffering, sexual exploitation, impact on the local female community, awareness-raising, making a living, support, vulnerability, and burden. The findings revealed that the focus in Petra news was mainly on empowering the Syrian female refugees, while NNA highlighted Syrian women’s suffering and efforts of alleviation. The study recommends that the governments of Jordan and Lebanon as well as international organizations provide more support and protection for vulnerable and disadvantaged refugee women. It also stresses the need for psychosocial support, counter-trafficking, protection, and women empowerment programs.

State News Agency Frames on Terrorist Attack : Study in TVNZ New Zealand and news.lk Sri Lanka

Many of the global mass media tend to deliver a particular news frame in a terrorism case, especially linkage terrorism with certain religions, races, at so on. The global mass media is influenced by Western media. The news frame will be different from the news agency level. This article aims to discuss news frame by the national news agencies in New Zealand (TVNZ) and Sri Lanka (news. lk) in a terrorism case, using the Robert N. Entman frame model. The result shows TVNZ defines the problem as an unprecedented action and creates a dark history in the country, the cause of the problem is terrorists from outside New Zealand, moral judgments in the form of evidence that New Zealand society remains united, the victims are also part of the New Zealand family regardless of their background, so the recommended resolution of the problem is that the government guarantees the safety of Muslim communities. Differently, news.lk defines the problem as the motive of the attack as revenge with religious sentiment. Meanwhile, the security forces are not aware of the threat, that define the cause of the problem as the perpetrator is an organized group and an indication of religious sentiment. This media makes moral judgments by revealing the fact that Muslims not guilty, the government facilitates representatives of the religious community in Sri Lanka to express their opinions to find solutions for reconciliation and maintaining peace. The recommended resolution is that the government is ready to fight terrorism without foreign intervention, improve the performance of the security forces, and reveal the active role of the different Sri Lankan people's ethnicity and religion.

Functional traits of the media space in Kazakhstan in the context of globalization

This article is devoted to the study of the functional features of the media space in Kazakhstan under the rapidly changing globalization trends and information confrontation of world powers. Since gaining independence, Kazakhstan is striving to create its own independent information space. The process of information space formation in the country has several traits, such as low competitiveness of national news agencies, slow development of the regulatory and legal framework in the field of information security, high politicization, including the language issue. These features occurred due to the heterogeneous language environment, the problems of the formation of national independent news agencies, the challenges of globalization, the most pressing of which is the growing influence of global media. In this article, authors touch upon the transition of Kazakhstan to the Latin alphabet, as well as the views of Western, Russian and Kazakhstan researchers on the current state of the media landscape of Kazakhstan. Authors justify the need to work out ways to minimize external information impact on the media landscape of Kazakhstan that is still undergoing media transformation processes.

GOVERNMENT DOMINATION IN ANTARA TV THE FEATURE NEWS PRODUCTION PROCESS OF “MATA INDONESIA”

The Ministry of Communication and Informatics has the task to distribute information on the various state activities, social and other community activities. The task of producing and disseminating this information is given to a Public Company of National News Agency (LKBN / Lembaga Kantor Berita Nasional) Antara. The research was carried out with a qualitative approach with the research of the feature news Antara TV, Mata Indonesia as an object. The study was conducted by performing a direct observations on the production process of the feature news Mata Indonesia. In the Mata Indonesia production process the Ministry has a dominant role in determining the direction and policy of Mata Indonesia. With economic and political power, the Ministry has intervened since the production designs, production processes in the field and regulate the final output of Mata Indonesia. To still be able to produce Mata Indonesia, the editor of Antara TV applies the gatekeeper function. Where all elements involved in selecting information will be presented.
 
 Keywords: media political economy, gatekeeper, journalistic tv, feature news

ROLE OF MINISTERIAL MEDIA ARMS DURING COVID-19 IN MALAYSIA

The recent outbreak of novel corona virus known as COVID-19, has caused over 556.335 deaths, left more than 12 million infected people worldwide by 11th of July 2020 (Organization, 2020a), in addition to global negative impact on nearly most life sectors. Media played -and still- a vital role in the containment of this global health threat by spreading the essential knowledge and awareness between people. Comparing to its neighbours, Malaysia seems to have good score in the battle of COVID-19. With 8,815 confirmed cases, 8,562 total discharged cases and 123 deaths by 21th of July 2020 (Malaysia, 2020), it was interesting to study the role of media in shaping people’s awareness during the current global crisis to face the danger of such virus on the national level. Aim: To analyse and understand the Malaysian government role in shaping people’s awareness toward COVID-19. Method: Authors are tracking and analysing the ministerial media arms role in handling the situation, based on the official data and statements released by the national news agency, Bernama. This article is divided into three main parts as it discusses the role of three specific governmental official; Prime Minister, General Director of Ministry of Health, and Senior Security Minister, Findings: The Malaysian governmental officials namely; Prime Minister, General Director of Ministry of Health, and Senior Security Minister followed a successful strategy during COVID-19 pandemic to rely a part on people’s awareness by providing them with the accurate information to avoid the viral spread of fake news. Conclusion: Malaysia was able to contain the pandemic on the national level powered by people’s awareness.