Newspaper Circulation Research Articles

Circuitos comunicacionais na imprensa do Rio de Janeiro do século XIX

The article addresses some aspects of communication circuits, in the initial decades of press circulation in Brazil, especially on the eve of Independence (1822), when printed newspapers began to be published gradually throughout the Brazilian territory, in what we can define as explosion of the public word from north to south of the country. The objective is to reflect on the initial moment of newspaper circulation in the 19th century, the century of the newspaper, also, in Brazil. Using the periodicals themselves as documentation to show communicational transits, it briefly highlights, based on the news published in the Diário do Rio de Janeiro, which circulated in the Court, from 1821 onwards, some of these circuits involving Brazil-Portugal.

Marketing Communication Management Strategies of Print Media in the Digital Era (An Integrated Marketing Communication Perspective in Maintaining Newspaper Circulation at the Bandung Kexpres Networking Public Daily)

Along with the times, newspapers have become one of the business commodities that can survive even though they are slowly starting to fall. So, to continue to maintain the life of a print media or newspaper business through consistent newspaper circulation, it is necessary to implement a particular strategy to defend against online media attacks. Focus in this research in general, this research focuses on knowing how the Bandung Express Networking Daily carries out the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) Strategy. In particular, this research focuses on knowing the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) Strategy in maintaining the daily circulation of newspapers in Bandung Express Networking. The research question is: How does the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) strategy maintain the newspaper's daily circulation? What are the obstacles and implementation of the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) strategy carried out by the Bandung Express Networking Daily. The results in this study are Pasundan Express Privileges. Print media advertisements used by Bandung Express Networking include men inserting their names on the product packaging for the Pasundan Express newspaper. Sales promotions. Games, both in content without prizes on Instagram social media and games with prizes. Public Relations and Publicity. The talk show is a form of education and promoting the circulation of the Bandung Express Networking Newspaper, Personal Selling. The Bandung Express Networking journalist team. Here, the media team and the Bandung Express Networking journalists play the most role in personal selling. Direct marketing. Through the Bandung Express Networking website. Com is the official website of Bandung Express Networking, where news and information about newspaper circulation and orders for transactions can be made on this website.

Tabloid Dailiesas the Market Leader of the Slovak Daily Press

The paper deals with the question of when Slovak tabloids became the market leader of Slovak daily newspapers. It analyses the results of the audit of the sold circulation of the Slovak daily newspapers Nový čas and Plus JEDEN DEŇ in the period from December 2006 to December 2023 and compares them with the sold circulation of other Slovak daily newspapers involved in the audit during that period. In total, this article monitored the development of the sold circulation of seven Slovak daily newspapers, namely two tabloid newspapers Nový čas and Plus JEDEN DEŇ and five non-tabloids, namely Hospodárske noviny, Korzár, Pravda, SME and Új Szó. The comparison presented in this post is based on data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which is publicly available online. The aim of this study is to find out when the tabloid Plus JEDEN DEŇ ranked second as the best-selling Slovak periodical with daily periodicity, the tabloid daily Nový čas, and how this trend developed. The question of the position of the daily newspaper Plus JEDEN DEŇ as the second best-selling Slovak newspaper with daily periodicity was analyzed on two levels. In the first case, the paper focuses on the question of in which year the daily Plus JEDEN DEŇ became the second best-selling daily in terms of average monthly circulation sold. In the latter case, this article finds out in which month in which year the second highest position in the daily newspaper Plus JEDEN DEŇ sold circulation within its actual monthly circulation settled. The development of the trend of the leading position of Slovak tabloids on the Slovak daily press market is also monitored in this study on two levels, i.e. how the Plus JEDEN DEŇ ranked on the market of Slovak daily newspapers during the years 2007-2023 within the average monthly circulation sold and also how the Plus JEDEN DEŇ ranked on the market of Slovak daily newspapers during individual months in the period 2006-2023 in terms of actual monthly circulation sold. Keywords: Plus JEDEN DEŇ, print circulation, Nový čas, tabloid dailies.

Editors of Regional Newspapers on the Prospects of Local Media: Research Results

In the article, the authors continue to present the results of a study of the current state and possibilities for improving the editorial strategies of municipal newspapers. The crisis of (self) identification of local media is observed in many countries, but in Russia there is a possibility of closing a large number of local media, which, in fact, are not needed by the government and business, and citizens are not ready to participate in financing their activities. However, there is also a positive experience of some successful regional newspapers, which is possible for dissemination. The article presents the results of the analysis of interviews with the leaders of such media. Emphasis is placed on the role of local media in public processes in which other actors also participate. The authors draw attention to the uniqueness of the work of local editorial offices, which is associated with a long-term focus on solving the problems of citizens and communities and the desire to work together with readers, government officials and business to solve urgent problems. The authors of the article propose to open a discussion about the criteria for the effectiveness of local media and offer their own version of kpi: not newspaper circulation and social media coverage, but real changes that have occurred on the initiative and (or) with the participation of local media journalists.

“Ignorance of the law excuses no one:” Fundamental Laws Every Filipino Teachers in Educational Institutions Should Know

In the Philippines, everyone is presumed to know the law. Laws in the Philippines take effect after fifteen days following the completion of their publication either in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines. Respondents in this mini research were local teachers and professors from secondary and tertiary levels within the National Capital Region (NCR) with some of them from outside the NCR. Survey questionnaires were administered in this study through convenient and snowball sampling techniques. The initial pulse from the respondents indicated that they have a good percentage of the knowledge of the six identified laws. Most of their knowledge were acquired in attending seminars and conference.

O protagonismo docente no espaço-tempo da transição democrática das décadas de 1970-80, no Brasil e em Portugal

The article revisits and updates questions that guided research that analyzed the repertoires of action adopted by teachers in the face of democratic construction processes that reached their peak in the 1970s, in Brazil and Portugal (Xavier,2013). Its central objective is to analyze the identity negotiations (Dubar, 2005) that permeated the political protagonism exercised by teachers in the actions and associations created in the influx of these movements. In the first topic, it locates the teaching movements in the space and time of the democratic transition and presents the questions that guided the writing of this article. In the second topic, it analyzes printed sources such as the mass circulation newspapers in Rio de Janeiro and the “O Professor” Magazine, with a view to observing the dissonant views regarding the establishment of an image of the teachers who participated in these movements. The third topic takes a statement relating to the experience of self-management lived in aPortuguese secondary school and highlights its reverberations in the interviewee's professional self-perception. In the final considerations, a brief reflection is developed on the disputes over the control of teaching identities and also on possible developments of this study. As a result of the analysis developed, it was possible to perceive the constitution of an engaged and autonomous teaching identity, through the analysis of the Magazine "O Professor". In turn, the mass circulation newspapers in Rio de Janeiro expressed the perspective of establishing a deviant identity in the face of teaching's political protagonism, triggering society's moral panic (Adorno, 1998), by condemning the collective actions that were part of the political repertoire of this professional group

Pelișor Castle as Space of Representation and Political Decision

The paper treats the representative part as a place for political decision making that Pelişor Castle played during the young monarchy before and after 1914. Its representative function is illustrated by the solemn moment of Pelişor Castle inauguration ceremony (24th Mai 1903) and by the birth of Prince Nicolas (18th August 1903), events we analyzed in detail based on archival documents, as well as primary sources. The funerary events linked to the passing of the two sovereigns, King Ferdinand (20th July 1927) and Queen Marie (18th July 1938) were retraced with the help of primary sources (memoirs, diaries), and in particular of the ample articles published in newspapers of wide circulation and differently placed in the political spectrum.

Network of Water Problems in the Press of Mexico City During the COVID-19 Era

The pandemic generated containment and mitigation policies, as well as distancing and confinement strategies that limited the supply of water resources to social sectors. Residential areas- The offer is maintained, but with an increase in rates. Marginalized areas were subsidized and exempted from paying for an increasingly intermittent supply. The anti-COVID-19 policies guided water policies in two ways: The first consisted of disseminating anti-COVID-19 policies in water management agencies. Another second consisted of the autonomy of the institutions and their disassociation or agreement with the anti-COVID-19 policies. In this way, the literature from 2020 to 2023 around anti-COVID-19 policies in their water dimensions, registers problems of scarcity, famine and unsanitary conditions. Scarcity had already been observed in marginalized sectors, famine in residential neighborhoods, but unsanitary conditions were appreciated in migrant communities. In fact, the type of exposure to occupational hazards determined the health status of the migrants. The water problems were recorded in the circulation press to highlight the asymmetries of the anti-COVID-19 policies in the public and private sectors, as well as in the political and social actors. The objective of the study was to reveal the network structure of relationships between nodes and edges related to press releases on water issues. A documentary, cross-sectional and retrospective study was carried out with national circulation newspapers: El País, El Reforma, La Jornada and El Universal, considering the water problems of scarcity, unsanitary conditions and famine. The results show a structure of nodes where the water problems were initiated by La Jornada and ended by El Reforma. Both findings are relevant considering the ideology of the newspaper. La Jornada, a newspaper identified with the political ideology of the left, began the diffusion of water problems in a city administered by a government of the same ideology. El Reforma, a newspaper designated by the executive as a spokesperson for the opposition ideology, culminates the network of notes on water problems. In other words, regardless of the type of political ideology attributed to newspapers, the problems of scarcity, unsanitary conditions and famine are spread. In relation to the state of the art where it is shown that ideology does not influence the establishment of the agenda, the present work corroborates and recommends expanding the study to other entities administered by the opposition such as the cities of Guadalajara and Monterrey.

The Geography of Newspaper Circulations: A Spatial Taxonomy of “News(Paper) Deserts” in the United States

Using the newspaper circulation data collected through the Alliance for Audited Media (<em>n</em> = 1,925 across five years), this study provides the first empirical spatial analysis of newspaper circulation in the US, employing the theoretical framework of communication geography and the analytical tool of spatial econometrics. From 2018 to 2022, a steady decline (at an average of 24.1% per year) in newspaper circulation was observed in most of the counties in the dataset, after controlling for spatial and temporal random effects. A positive and significant spatial autocorrelation was found across the US. The local indicators of spatial association results identified four types of spatial clusters that offer a more nuanced understanding of the local spatial distribution of newspaper circulation: news deserts, news oases, news islands, and the fringe of news deserts. The study also used Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling to pinpoint the regions that are more sensitive to the spatial structure regarding the decline of newspaper circulation.

How Loud Does the Watchdog Bark? A Reconsideration of Losing Local Journalism, News Nonprofits, and Political Corruption

Journalism has long been presumed to serve as a check on the powerful, shedding light on wrongdoing; however, as local newspapers reach market failure, extant theory predicts corruption will go unchecked. We operationalize corruption as federal prosecutions for public corruption (PPCs), defined by the US Department of Justice as crimes involving the abuse of public trust by federal, state, and local public officials. We examine changes in the local news media ecosystems: first, whether declines in local newspaper employment and circulation are associated with changes in PPCs; and second, whether efforts to supplement watchdog journalism with nonprofit journalism might mitigate associated declines in federal PPC. Our findings suggest nonprofit interventions in failing local commercial news markets may be an important safeguard for keeping public officials accountable.

Current Media Perspectives on the Norwegian Language. Norwegian, Norsklish or Better English?

"Current media perspectives on the Norwegian language. Norwegian, norsklish or better English? The present paper explores the current situation of the English language used in Norway, as rendered by different articles published by Aftenposten, a Norwegian newspaper of significant circulation. The countries’ English language skills are annually tested, and according to the 2022 Education First’s English Proficiency Index, Norway is ranked number four in the world, with very high skills. Nowadays, English is used in schools, at higher education institutions, at work, but English words are more and more used in Norwegian in everyday life especially by teenagers. This leads to a mixture of English and Norwegian known as norsklish. The newspaper articles present various opinions about the level of English proficiency required in different fields, the influence of norsklish on the language of youth, and even the need for Norwegians to improve their English language skills. The influence of the English language on the speech of different generations in Norway varies, as each generation has had different exposure and experiences with this language. Norwegians are moreover exposed to a wide variety of language variants given the fact that they have two official written norms (Bokmål and Nynorsk) and quite many dialects, which are used in various aspects of the public life. Fields such as research, higher education, international business may be seen as threatened by the use of English mostly because there is a clear lack of terminology in Norwegian. Keywords: Norwegian language, norsklish, bilingualism, Anglicization, media"

Media Framing of Causes, Risks, and Policy Solutions for Cannabis-Impaired Driving: Does Medical vs. Non-Medical Cannabis Context Matter?

ABSTRACT Driving under the influence of cannabis (DUIC) is a major cause of preventable death and a growing public health concern. News media coverage of DUIC may influence public perceptions of causal factors for DUIC, risks of DUIC, and potential policy solutions. This study examines Israeli news media coverage of DUIC, and contrasts media coverage according to whether news items refer to cannabis use for medical vs. non-medical purposes. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of news articles related to driving accidents and cannabis use (N = 299) from eleven of the highest circulation newspapers in Israel between 2008 and 2020. We apply attribution theory to analyze media coverage of accidents that were linked to medical cannabis, use compared with non-medical use. News items describing DUIC in the context of non-medical (vs. medical) cannabis use were more likely to: (a) emphasize individual causes (vs. social and political); (b) describe drivers in negative terms (vs. neutral or positive); (c) refer to an increased accident risk due to cannabis use (vs. inconclusive or low risk); and (d) call for increased enforcement rather than education. Results show that Israeli news media coverage of cannabis-impaired driving varied significantly depending on whether it referred to cannabis use for medical purposes, or non-medical purposes. News media coverage may influence public perceptions of the risks of DUIC, the factors that are associated with this issue, and potential policy solutions that may reduce the prevalence of DUIC in Israel.

Revenue Destruction and Distribution Dependency: The Economic Impact of Digital Platforms on Newspapers and Magazines in Taiwan

<p>本研究透過產業問卷調查與對媒體經營者的深度訪談等多種方法，蒐集近十年的產業資料，發現跨國平台對本地新聞出版業造成「營收破壞」與「流通依賴」。新聞業紙本發行減少50%，廣告量分別遽降80% 與60%；兩者在廣告市場占比從合計30% 降到3.5%，網路從20% 提高至65%。Google與Facebook兩大平台在網路廣告市場則估約60-80%。由於流通依賴兩大平台，媒體報導方向朝演算法傾斜。平台單方決定演算法更動與內容審查，形成不平等關係。本研究建議未來應採取演算法公開問責、或向平台抽取特別公課以成立獨立基金等政策，以修補破壞與改變依賴。</p> <p> </p><p>Through an industrial questionnaire survey in-depth interviews with publishers, this study examines how digital platforms have affected Taiwanese publishers in the 2010s. Transnational platforms have resulted in revenue destruction and distribution dependency for local news publishers. The circulation of newspapers and magazines has decreased by approximately 50%, and advertising revenue has decreased by 80% and 60% respectively. Newspapers and magazines’ share of the media advertising market has decreased from 30% to 3.5%, and that of the Internet has increased from 20% to 65%. Google and Facebook dominate the advertising market with their collective share of the online advertising market being estimated at 60-80%. The news production has become reliant on these two platforms. Digital platforms determine algorithms, content, and profit sharing and dominate the media. To improve the quality journalism, this paper suggests the transparency of platforms’ algorithms and the establishment of an independent news funds by taxing the platforms.</p> <p> </p>

Rural regional newspapers of the Russian Federation on the Internet

In the context of the development of broadband and mobile Internet in rural areas of the Russian Federation, using the example of three regions of the Siberian Federal District, the dynamics of circulation of rural regional newspapers and the development of the Internet by this type of socio-political periodicals are examined. The article presents an analysis of websites and public pages in various social networks of almost one hundred newspapers based on a complete sample of municipal publications in regional districts. The analysis showed that over the past ten years, newspapers have made significant progress towards accumulating an Internet audience: almost all of them have functioning, daily updated websites, although they are still quite poorly adapted to mobile media consumption. All newspapers have pages on at least two social networks (VKontakte and Odnoklassniki), and newspapers in the Krasnoyarsk Territory work better than others with platforms that are new to this type of publication, such as Telegram and video hosting.

РАЙОННІ ГАЗЕТИ ЯК НЕПІЗНАНИЙ ФЕНОМЕН ТОТАЛІТАРНОЇ ЖУРНАЛІСТИКИ: НА АРХІВНИХ ДОКУМЕНТАХ ТА МАТЕРІАЛАХ МІСЦЕВОЇ ПРЕСИ БУКОВИНИ

The article is written on the basis of archival documents of the Chernivtsi region that have not yet been included in scientific circulation and materials from the binders of local newspapers. These documents shed light on the phenomenon of district newspapers not only as a component of the journalism system of the Soviet totalitarian era, but also as important links of the Moscow consciousness of the Western Ukrainian population. Various aspects of the establishment and functioning of this segment of the press are comprehensively covered: ideological, organizational, personnel and problem-thematic. Described difficulties under conditions of shortages: for paper, Ukrainian fonts, printing equipment, personnel. Newspaper names were analyzed in retrospect of their subsequent renamings. Usually these titles were given from above and served as a political marker of the era. The key concepts were those for other regions of Ukraine: red, Stalinist, Leninist, Soviet, socialism, commune. The circulation policy of the party is analyzed. The circulation of local newspapers (regional and district) was strictly limited. On the other hand, the central (Moscow and republican) disarmaments descended every year with increasing numbers. The personnel potential and the procedure for approving newspaper editors and quality managers are characterized. Among the editors of regional newspapers after the war, there was a lack of people with higher education, some had a journalist’s diploma. The level of political training and the candidate’s loyalty to the ideals of the party were important. The qualitative composition of creative employees of regional newspapers was analyzed by age, gender, education, nationality, geography of origin. Mass work with readers, the nature of editorial mail, statistics of correspondence are given. Separately – about censorship control of newspapers in the city and its forms: closed reviews, review at the office of district committee of the party, personal cases, lists of bans on public criticism of the government. The problem-thematic content is analyzed in terms of different historical eras: Stalin’s era, Khrushchev’s thaw, Brezhnev’s era of stagnation. Keywords: district newspapers, names of newspapers, personnel of the district press, procedure for approving editors, closed reviews of the press, editorial mail, local press of Bukovyna.

Transregional by design: The early communist press in the middle east and global revolutionary networks

AbstractThis article traces the circulation of newspapers and journals as physical objects to reconstruct Middle Eastern communists’ global connections. I argue that post-First World War Middle Eastern and North African revolutionary militancy was closely linked to global networks. The extensive transregional and transimperial circulation of the communist press discussed here traces these close connections. The Communist International represented a novelty as a self-proclaimed centralist worldwide party. Distinctively, it brought together the means and the will to centralize (much of) global radicalism. This argument also serves to locate the early and mid-1920s as a transitional period in the history of left-wing movements: the means provided by a World Party intersected with the network-like structure of the pre-Comintern revolutionary milieux. The article aims to contribute to global history by discussing a regional – Middle Eastern – political current, not as the aggregate sum of its national components, but as a product of a global process.

Gender biases: evidence from a natural experiment in French local elections

AbstractWomen are underrepresented in politics. In this paper, we test one of the potential explanations for this situation: gender biases from voters. We use a natural experiment during French local elections in 2015: for the first time in this country, candidates had to run in pairs, which had to be gender-balanced. We argue that this reform confused some voters, who might have assumed that the first name on the ballot represented the ‘main’ candidate. Since the order of the candidates on the ballot was determined by their alphabetical order, the order of appearance of male and female candidates was as-good-as-random and this setting allows us to isolate gender biases from selection effects. Our main result is that there exists a negative gender bias affecting right-wing candidates, whose vote shares were lower by 1.5 percentage points when the female candidate appeared first on the ballot. The missing votes prevented some pairs of candidates from proceeding to the second round of voting. Using data on newspaper circulation and additional institutional features of the election—namely the fact that candidates can (but do not have to) report additional information about themselves on the ballot—we show that higher levels of information decrease discrimination. We argue that the discrimination we identify is, therefore, likely to be statistical.

SENTINET: A DEEP SENTIMENT ANALYSIS NETWORK FOR POLITICAL MEDIA BIAS DETECTION

India has the highest circulation of newspapers in the world, but unfortunately also has high media bias rates and one of the lowest press freedom rankings for democracies. A biased media prevents citizens from receiving information that might be essential to public wellbeing by filtering information through a lens that supports government interests first. Media bias plays an influencing role even at the voting booth as propaganda can skew voter decisions and perceptions of what is true in this era of fake news. It's vital to keep an eye on bias in the news and to provide a platform where people can get unbiased and reliable news. Researchers in sentiment analysis and bias detection have been using various techniques to achieve higher accuracy to detect media bias. This study aims to take a different technical approach to the problem of Indian political media bias detection by developing SentiNet - a graphical processing unit (GPU) accelerated modified convolution neural network (CNN) model consisting of linearly inverted depth-wise separable convolutions capable of classifying news as either ‘unbiased’ or ‘biased’ from twitter data. Because of its simple architecture and lesser number of tuning parameters, it is observed that SentiNet is a good fit in terms of accuracy and loss function and its training time reduces by 50% when using a GPU. From results, Republic TV and BBC emerged as the most biased towards ruling party and Opposition parties respectively. NDTV and News19 emerged unbiased towards ruling party with balanced reporting. India TV has emerged as unbiased towards Opposition parties. From twitter political discourse, it is found that parties discuss themselves or their opposing parties and seldom issues of national interest. The research and the proposed robust model can be extended to other social media and be analysed for a bigger social network.

“Oldies come bottom of Grim Reaper hierarchy” : A framing analysis of UK newspaper coverage of old age and risk of dying during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

AbstractThis article examines UK newspaper coverage during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic March-August 2020. A qualitative framing analysis of public messaging on age in five high circulation newspapers provides a detailed account of who is deemed to be at risk of dying from COVID-19. Newspapers represent older people as most at risk, with disability as a secondary factor. Reports on who is responsible, who is at risk, and who is to blame for deaths from COVID-19 are framed as issues of public health and generational fairness, with individual responsibility occupying a prominent role. We also find two counter-frames. First, in letters to the editor, older people’s pleas for freedom are framed as a fight for their civil liberties. Second, newspapers praise 99-year-old Captain Tom Moore and frame his behaviour as a source of national pride. We identify this as positive ageism. We conclude that reporting across progressive and conservative newspapers reflects age-based stereotypes and paternalism towards older people. Public figures are represented as scapegoats or heroes, offering distraction from the less newsworthy fact that long-term under-investment in social care increased the risk of dying amongst the old and disabled during the pandemic.

The Media in the Construction of Reality in the Context of Colombian Social Nonconformity

Introduction: Convergence of linguistics and semiotics materializes in the text not only the conceptual content that is expressed through codes, but the message also underlies the realism of the communicative intentions of the issuing agent in a specific context and the value of the interactions of the actors of the communicative act. Methodology: The vision of reality that is established in the collective imaginary must be analyzed from the interpretation of society and culture, the laws of operation and their constituent parts. For this, this research approached two newspapers of national circulation, five general radio channels of national coverage, and two television newscasts of private channels, and through the use of quantitative instruments, the posts, tweets or videos were reviewed in order to analyze the constituent elements of the discourse—text, images, hashtags, or keywords—which are appreciated from the syntactic and semantic perspectives (structural) and pragmatics (functional). Results: The communication process in its social context denotes the intervention of nonlinguistic elements of sociocultural order that demarcate the generation and interpretation of the meanings and senses of linguistic expressions. Discussion: The linguistic structure offers conditions for communication, but any generation and transmission of meanings is a product of the intention of the subjects who use it for specific purposes and in specific communicative situations within a social context. Conclusions: Intensive use of digital technology and social networks naturalized a relationship of proximity and familiarity in the communication process, satisfaction of needs in the multiplicity of information that is created and distributed in the network bundled to mobile devices and the political and social ecosystem of the nation.