News Programs Research Articles

Audience Perception of Female News Anchors: A Study of Africa Independent Television (AIT)

This study examined the perception of mass communication students on female news anchors in Africa Independent Television (AIT). The purpose of the study is to determine viewers perception on the physical characteristics of female news anchors on Africa Independent Television (AIT); whether viewers' attention is diverted from the news by the appearance of these anchors; and whether viewers' attention is affected by their physical appearance. . The study was guided by Social Perception Theory. Using survey method quantitative approach was used. The population of this study made of 5032 students in Federal Polytechnic Bauchi within period of the study (Academic Unit, 2024). 346 sample size was used. In gathering the data, questionnaire was used. Data of the study was analyzed using descriptive analysis. The sstudy indicated that, the appearance is generally viewed positively; certain aspects of attire may inadvertently cause distraction. The study conclude that, the perception of Mass Communication students regarding female television news anchors on Africa Independent Television (AIT) is generally positive, emphasizing professionalism, competence, and credibility. It is recommended that, AIT should continue to promote gender equality by ensuring equal representation of male and female anchors across all news programs.

Media Representation of Scientists in Jornal Nacional: Reaffirmation of Stereotypes During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific authorities were routinely consulted by mainstream media outlets through interviews, statements and/or supporting images. In this framework, our goal in this study was to analyze the media representation of scientists in Brazil during the first year of this global public health crisis. To this end, we applied a research protocol and, using statistical techniques, quantitatively analyzed newscasts on the country’s main TV news program, Jornal Nacional. On this program, scientists were interviewed about “vaccination,” a topic of broad interest given that the vaccine had been described from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as a response to cope with the public health crisis. We discuss information about gender, age, and race, the speaking time and screen time of these social actors, the format in which scientists are inserted into news reports, and the presence/absence of science icons. The data reveal that the predominant image of the scientist transmitted to the audience – a mature white man – reinforces stereotypes that persist in the media and in the public understanding of science.

Maneuvering Strategically with Corkscrewing in Satirical News Programs

The study aims to build the infrastructure of corkscrewing on an extended pragma-dialectical[i] ground, represented the theory of strategic maneuvering launched in (2002) by Eemern and Houtlosser. The methodology followed involves defining corkscrewing as a strategic concept subsuming goal and audience int its structure, and showing how this concept appeals to each of the three aspects of strategic maneuvering in order to be considered as one of its modes. It has been discovered that the three aspects are not equally instantiated, rather they are represented in a gradient manner. So, those aspects cannot be strictly considered 'inseparable', as called by their advocators, because they have been proved to be separable in corkscrewing yet working successfully. The study recommends investigating this phenomenon in other cultures and compare the results because culture-specificity may lead to vary strategies in a scalar way, thus it could be useful to study it within another culture to investigate whether it undergoes the same path of ‘thisness’ or not. The genre intended to be investigated is satirical news programs as they are specifically representative of what such a phenomenon requires.

Miryam de Flores: The Woman of the Port. The Legacy of a Female TV Auteur From the Colombian Caribbean Region

This article highlights the contribution made by writer/director Miryam de Flores (1938–2008) to the emerging television industry in the Colombian Caribbean Region and analyses her vision as a female auteur in this economic, social and cultural context. Miryam de Flores was born in Barranquilla, Colombia and from a young age she worked in the media industry. In 1984, the Colombian government authorised the creation of regional television channels throughout the country. In this context, Telecaribe was founded in 1986, a television channel that covers the seven territorial entities of the Colombian Caribbean Region. In Telecaribe’s early years, Miryam de Flores played a leading role writing/directing two sitcoms, a children’s news programme, a telenovela, and a cultural magazine, among other productions. Particularly, as will be analyzed in this article, her telenovela “La Mujer del Puerto” (1990–1992) (The Woman of the Port) became a narrative with a female gaze and an approach connected to the cultural identity of the Colombian Caribbean region. Miryam de Flores played a key role in setting the pillars of Telecaribe and providing a female gaze to the productions developed in this emerging television channel.

Public Health Reporting in the China’s TV News: A Case Study of Early Stage of COVID-19 Outbreak

initial outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan in December 2019 prompting swift nationwide measures. Amidst the escalating crisis has contribute to China enforced temporary closures and exit controls in Hubei province, a pivotal move in curbing the virus's spread on January 23, 2020. This paper aims to explore the role of CCTV News, as the "mouthpiece" of the Party and the government in shaping public opinion during the COVID-19 epidemic. This preliminary study utilizes content analysis methods to examine the framework of COVID-19 news coverage, with a focus on a specialized TV news program aired between January 20 and February 20, 2020. The findings show how positive publicity and humanistic care initiatives have been instrumental in stabilizing public sentiment and effectively conveying China's perspective amidst the crisis. Subsequently, on January 28, 2020, the Publicity Department of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television coordinated the programming of national satellite TV programs prioritizing epidemic prevention and control coverage, curtailing entertainment programming, and issuing comprehensive programming guidelines to all 36 satellite TV stations. This concerted effort is seen as a strategic shift that has significantly increased the dissemination of information, addressed public concerns, and steered public opinion in support of the nation's fight against the epidemic.

Penggunaan Kata Tabu dalam Tuturan Pembaca Berita “Pojok Kampung” JTV

This research aims to describe the types and examples of taboo words used by news readers on JTV's "Pojok Kampung" program, East Java, which are distinctive or unique and different from news programs in general. This research is descriptive qualitative research. The data source in this research is the speech of the JTV "Pojok Kampung" news presenters. The data collection technique used is listening and note-taking technique. Wardhaugh's theory is applied in this research to identify the types of taboo words used in the news broadcast "Pojok Kampung". From the results of the analysis, it was found that in the program "Pojok Kampung" which was broadcast on JTV station, there were taboo words used by news readers, namely taboo words related to sex, the natural functions of the human body, and taboo words related to death.

Representation of Turkey in Yemeni Media: A Case Study of El-Mesira Channel and Aden Independent Channel

This study aims to examine the representation of Türkiye in news and news programs broadcast by private Yemeni television channels, focusing on discourse type, ideological frameworks employed in news coverage and the editorial policies followed by these channels. For this purpose, discourses from news and news programs published on the websites of El-Mesira, affiliated with Ansar Allah (Houthis) and Aden Independent Channel, aligned with the Southern Transitional Council, were analyzed using van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis model for the period from July 1 to December 31, 2020. The analysis revealed that Aden Independent Channel concentrated on Turkish-Qatari relations accusing both countries of providing financial and military support to the legitimate government forces, which the channel deemed affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood (Al-Islah Party). The channel also asserted that the legitimate government was aligned with Türkiye and Iran, implementing Qatar’s agenda in Yemen. Simultaneously, the channel considered the forces of the Southern Transitional Council as the sole faction fighting against the legitimate government forces and Ansar Allah (Houthis), who aimed to thwart the council’s project of establishing an independent state in southern Yemen. On the other hand, El-Mesira reacted negatively to the presence of Turkish armed forces in Syria. Regarding the Yemeni crisis, the channel viewed Türkiye positively, particularly in light of Türkiye’s criticism of the negative role played by the United Arab Emirates in Yemen, which resulted in the deaths of thousands and the spread of famine among millions of Yemenis.

Fundraising Reports in Russian Television News Programs: Specifics of the Genre

Fundraising Reports in Russian Television News Programs: Specifics of the Genre

Features of Coverage of the SARS-COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic in the Ukrainian Audiovisual Media (on the Example of News Releases of Central and Regional Television Channels and Public Service Broadcasters of Ukraine)

This paper explores some patterns of coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in the news programs of television and radio channels of the National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine. The process of pandemic coverage is reflexive and does not have a clear strategy or policy. The study is the first in this direction, and this is its scientific novelty. The most stable characteristic of vaccination coverage by Ukrainian Radio news is informing the audience about everything related to COVID-19 vaccinations.

Exploring Media Narratives: A Qualitative Study of the Hijab Ban Coverage in Indian News Channels

Muskan Khan, a hijab-wearing Muslim student, was chased and intimidated by the majority of Hindu students of her college, but she refused to be cowed down raising the slogan Allah o Akbar. The incident gained international fame and she was given the title of hijab girl. Indian TV channels, The Republic World, Time Now, NDTV, and India Today, covered the incident. In this qualitative research, the researchers analyzed hijab coverage in current events and TV shows on the said TV channels. The findings revealed that the Indian Muslim minority was demonized in the media, and TV news programs in the country aired anti- hijab programming, equating the head covering with terrorism. The Indian news channel anchors and guests exaggerated, fabricated, and twisted the on-air content to create hatred against the hijab and Islam. They subtly showed their anti-Muslim political leanings in the content they produced and blamed Islam for the adversity.

Determinants Of Rating/Share Of Indonesian Television News In The Online Era (The Case Of Mnctv Indonesia)

The purpose of this study is to identify a plan for sustaining and growing MNCTV news stations' share and rating. This television news station has been around for around 27 years and is still going strong. Despite the fact that the generation at this news station has shifted, this is inextricably linked to the outstanding program rating/share and has a tendency to remain steady. Descriptive qualitative research methodology is used to gather detailed information about the chief editor and three executives involved in news programs. The findings demonstrated that from pre-production to post-production, the editorial team holds regular meetings. Reporters with specialized knowledge of the issue being covered are provided access to all of the materials reviewed during the editorial meeting. Additionally, they stay up to date with technology advancements to improve the screen. To improve the on-screen presentation, news anchors are frequently swapped out for younger, more intelligent candidates. As the times change, news is also posted to official social media profiles on platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok.

Conspiracy Framing and Intratextual Elements: Chryons and Clips in the FOX News Coverage of the Brett Kavanaugh Hearings

Background Coverage of the Brett Kavanaugh hearing was continual, the commentary constant, and the conspiracy theories advanced, by both Kavanaugh and Fox News, were consequential. Methods Using conspiracy as a lens, this article examines the Fox News coverage of the Senate Judiciary Confirmation Hearing of Brett Kavanaugh on September 27, 2018. On that day, Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony detailing an alleged sexual assault was heard, as was Kavanaugh’s statement in defense of himself. Specifically, the article looks at the entire day of coverage including the commentary during breaks in the hearing as well as the Fox News programming run after the completion of the day’s testimony. Results Adopting a conspiracy frame demonstrates how Fox News coverage revolved around a conspiracy by Democrats. Democrats were constructed as an unappeasable, evil force; Blasey Ford was presented as a pawn used by Democrats; and Kavanaugh was positioned as a symbolic representative of white patriarchy -- the persecuted hero fighting for the American people and way of life. Conclusions Unpacking the consequences of this narrative framing reveals the way news elements and intratextual elements of coverage (clips and chyrons) construct an interpretive frame for viewers. In the Kavanaugh case, the conspiratorial interpretive frame allowed for the dismissal of Blasey Ford, justified Kavanaugh’s aggressively defensive tone, and associated his defense with the necessary defense of American justice.

“Korean Wave” and development trends of the South Korean broadcasting corporation KBS

INTRODUCTION. The study examines the history, development, licensing features, and financial problems of the South Korean broadcasting corporation KBS. The relevance of the topic is due to insufficient knowledge of the influence of the Korean wave and South Korean media companies on the global media market. The goal is to show the features of KBS’s development strategy.MATERIALS AND METHODS. Aspects of the Korean wave, the history of the formation of KBS, its development trends in 2023 and 2024, and broadcasting directions in 2024 are studied. The media products of the South Korean international radio station KBS World Radio, broadcasting in Russian, are considered. The reasons for the occurrence and ways to solve the financial difficulties of KBS are analyzed. Conclusions about KBS development trends are made on the basis of media materials published on the company’s websites, as well as South Korean media news covering changes in the features of paying for the KBS television license. The works of researchers on the features of the Korean wave and KBS’s strategy to combat advertising addiction are considered.RESULT AND DISCUSSION. KBS’s activities are aimed at creating a healthy broadcasting culture and objective news programs and promoting Korean culture. KBS officials announced their broadcast policy for 2024, focusing on ensuring impartiality and promoting innovative content across various media platforms to expand their audience reach. Media company KBS is expected to face significant challenges in 2024. Domestic and international competition for content, changes in the media landscape and KBS’s license fee collection have caused financial problems.CONCLUSION. KBS influences the global media market by promoting the Korean Wave. The radio station KBS World Radio creates content for the Russian audience. The experience of South Korean entertainment media can be used for the activities of leading Russian television and radio broadcasting corporations. The results of the study can be used to increase the quality of Russian analogues of Korean media products. The findings add to the consideration of methods for promoting national culture among young people around the world.

“Regression/Progression: Two Cases of COVID Television”

Televisual dynamics have, in some ways, mirrored and modeled pandemic dynamics, with both involving moves between public and private, inside and outside. Yet the ensuing crossings, confusions, and reactions may yield quite distinct results, as demonstrated by two cases of U.S. television that engaged COVID-19: the Fox News program Tucker Carlson Tonight (which makes claims to the “real” yet produced paranoid fantasies around the pandemic and the “others” with whom it was associated) and the Showtime comedy-drama Work in Progress (scripted yet based on the “true life” of co-creator/star Abby McEnany, which revealed how thinking about COVID cannot be separated from thinking about gender, sexuality, race, ability, and media fact and fantasy themselves). As both programs enact and respond to television’s and the pandemic’s challenging of boundaries (public/private, inside/outside, self/other, fact/fantasy) but do so in very different ways, they highlight limitations and possibilities of media logics in this pandemic age.

“This kind of life has no meaning”

“This kind of life has no meaning”

G-20 Summit Coverage on Television Media: Quantitative Framing Analysis on Three National Television News Programs

G-20 Summit Coverage on Television Media: Quantitative Framing Analysis on Three National Television News Programs

Beauty police: the construction and implementation of beauty standards in Romanian news TV

ABSTRACT The exploration of beauty standards and their societal significance has been a prominent subject of inquiry within academic discourse. While numerous philosophical, sociological, and anthropological analyses have delved into the concept and idealization of beauty, this article endeavors to examine the construction of beauty standards for “television appeal” within Romanian TV news channels and programs. Television, as one of the most influential mediums in society, serves as a pivotal platform for the dissemination of idealized images of beauty to millions of viewers on a daily basis. Our focus on TV news channels and programs is justified by their extensive viewership and ostensibly primary objective of informing the public, which may lead one to anticipate that beauty standards and practices would be subsidiary to their core mission. Through in-depth interviews conducted with journalists, beauty practitioners, and a union leader, this research seeks to elucidate pertinent inquiries concerning the genesis, implementation, and potential enforcement of beauty standards upon journalists within this domain.

Internet Culture as a Nomadic model: representation of the Unconscious

The article examines the issue of the formation of a new reality through Internet culture. The subject of this work is the nomadic model of the World Wide Web. The object is modern news programs presented on the Internet. The purpose of the study is to identify patterns that influence the formation of a new genre of media as a way of communication in the Internet environment. The peculiarity of the Internet device allows us to develop the concept of a viewer-author due to a high level of interactivity. The presence of a multitude of information expressed through an uncontrolled nomadic model creates an atmosphere of a new "reality" based on false freedom and pseudo-trust. In addition, the creation of a "virtual double" by the viewer contributes to the manifestation of hidden emotions and antisocial behaviors as a manifestation of the archetype "Shadow" (K. Jung). The article puts forward a hypothesis: the peculiarity of the Internet networks, expressed through the nomadic model, creates a platform for the realization of the unconscious viewer. This work is based on the nomadic model of culture developed by philosopher J. Deleuze and psychiatrist F. Guattari. Through the concept of psychoanalysis by K. Jung and J. Lacan examines the concept of the unconscious, as well as the "virtual reality" of S. Zizek, necessary for the most complete analysis of the transmission of information through Internet genres. The relevance of the research is emphasized by the need to comprehend the processes of constructing reality in the Internet network, through new information genres, in conditions of high interactivity. The novelty of the work lies in a new theoretical understanding of the experience of receiving and transmitting information via the Internet, one of the main participants of which is the viewer himself. The analysis of information production methods becomes especially necessary in conditions of reduced data moderation, which leads to the spread of false information in modern society. The author's special contribution to the research of the topic consists in the analysis of information and analytical programs, in particular "Caution: News", presented on the Internet platform. The main conclusion of the conducted research is the confirmation of the scientific hypothesis: the Internet environment is a nomadic model, which is a platform for the realization of the unconscious viewer.

News coverage of the Iraqi brain drain issue: an analytical study of the news bulletins of Al Iraqiya TV channel during the period from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022

The public today navigates a vast landscape of hundreds of satellite channels offering diverse intellectual discourse. Amidst this multitude, Al-Iraqiya Satellite Channel, the official Iraqi state broadcaster, consistently claims the top spot in viewership and engagement according to local opinion polls. The channel grapples with various issues relevant to the Iraqi public, and prominent among them is the critical phenomenon of Iraqi talent migration. It is this issue's prominence in Al-Iraqiya's news programming that drew the researcher's attention, leading to a detailed analysis of broadcast content focused on brain drain during the year 2022. This research seeks to answer the following question: How did news bulletins on Al-Iraqiya Satellite Channel address the issue of Iraqi talent migration? Employing a descriptive research approach, the researcher utilized a survey method and defined the research population as all news bulletins aired by the channel in 2022. To ensure comprehensiveness, a complete inventory sample of all bulletins addressing the brain drain phenomenon within the specified timeframe was adopted . This analysis yielded several key findings: News coverage of Iraqi talent migration occupied a substantial portion of total news bulletin airtime, amounting to 70 minutes out of a total 540 minutes. The majority of the televised content addressing brain drain took the form of news segments, followed by reports, interviews, analyses, and commentaries, respectively.

Shifting Roles of Media in Tanzania: From Development Communication to Watchdog Journalism

This study examines the implementation and challenges associated with development communication in mainland Tanzania, focusing on news articles and programs from eight media organizations. Surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions were conducted to gather perspectives from journalists, editors, and news consumers. Prior to 1992, Tanzania's media landscape was oriented towards promoting the national development agenda. However, policy changes influenced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund's Structural Adjustment Program shifted the media's focus towards watchdog journalism, aimed at monitoring government performance. This shift impacted both private and state-owned media entities. Presently, the media landscape in mainland Tanzania is rapidly evolving into a profitable industry, serving as a tool for accountability, government communication, and revenue generation. It's crucial for Tanzanian consumers to actively engage with the diverse media options available, rather than passively consuming information primarily designed to attract advertisers.
 The transformation of Tanzania's media landscape from development-oriented to watchdog journalism has significant implications for both media organizations and consumers. While this shift promotes accountability and transparency, it also raises concerns about the role of media in advancing development goals. The findings indicate a need for media organizations to balance their roles as watchdogs and promoters of development. This requires a reevaluation of editorial priorities and a commitment to providing accurate and balanced information to the public. Furthermore, there is a pressing need to enhance media literacy among Tanzanian consumers to empower them to critically evaluate and navigate the diverse media landscape. This includes providing education on media literacy in schools and communities and promoting digital literacy skills to enable access to online information.