Newspaper Editors Research Articles

THE EXPRESSION OF EVALUATION IN “THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO MUST-TRY INDONESIAN FOOD”: AN APPRAISAL ANALYSIS

Appraisal, under Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) especially interpersonal meaning, concerns with evaluation of language that is negotiated through the text (Martin and White, 2005; Martin and Rose, 2007). Briefly, appraisal is used to assess things, situation, or people. This study investigates the Journalist’s evaluation towards ten of most popular Indonesian savory foods across Indonesia from the perspective of appraisal system. Indonesia is a home for 300 ethnic groups, and it offers a wide range of culinary. In this study, the researcher limits the study on one type of attitudes subsystem namely appreciation. Appreciation is our evaluation about ‘things’, particularly thing we make and actions we give, and it also includes natural phenomenon (Martin and White, 2005; Martin and Rose, 2007, Santosa, et.al, 2023). This study employs qualitative research using a criterion-based sampling technique known as purposive sample and content analysis for the technique of data analysis (Santosa, 2017). The source of data in this study was a document that consists of 10 must-try savory Indonesian foods which was retrieved from an Indonesia travel website https://www.indonesia.travel/sg/en/home. Thus, the data were segmented into types of appreciation such as reaction: impact and quality, composition: balance and complexity, and valuation. Furthermore, in analyzing the data, the researcher applies appraisal theoretical framework developed by Martin and White (2005). The results of this study show that the most dominant type of appreciation exploited by the journalist is positive valuation. It is used to show the journalist’s appreciation and critics to the foods he reviewed. The following clause is the example of the finding ‘Rendang, an authentic Indonesian dish from Padang’. The bold lexis is used by the journalist to show his appreciation towards the typical food from Pandang, West Sumatra, Indonesia called Rendang. It indicates that the journalist expresses his positive valuation to some foods he reviewed to evoke people’s appetites and to invite them to try some authentic Indonesian foods. Moreover, the result of this study is in line with the research conducted by Daniarsa & Ningsih (2023) about tendency in Indonesian newspaper editorials. The result of the study indicates that the tendency of using positive appreciation is to give implicit and explicit praise and assessment to Jokowi and his vice’s leadership. Meanwhile, the finding also supports research carried out by Wu & Pan (2021) who also stated that the use of positive appreciation is to express the journalist’s wishes or appreciation towards the ‘things’ he wrote about.

Home Team Effect and Opinion Network after the Sewol Ferry Disaster: A mixed-method study of the influence of symbol and feedback on liberal versus conservative newspapers’ negative opinions

Studies on the symbol and feedback effects on the opinion based on the theory are lacking. Acknowledging that the media express their stance and opinion and that negative opinions are critical to policy change, this paper fills the gap in the literature by illustrating and comparing the effects of emotional and cognitive symbols and positive and negative feedback on the liberal and conservative newspapers’ negative opinions of South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s administration (Park administration) after the Sewol Ferry sank. This study used qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze the archival data, including 424 newspaper editorials and economic data published from April to December 2014. Multiple regression analyses were conducted following a content analysis of newspaper editorials, and network analysis was used to analyze the data. The results mostly supported the hypotheses that symbols and feedback affect the negative opinion on the political discourse, with new findings that deviate from the existing theories. The emotional symbols exerted a stronger influence on the negative opinion compared to cognitive symbols, regardless of the newspaper’s stance. The political system’s response to the positive and negative feedback was not definite; instead, it varied depending on the situation and newspaper perspective. The liberal newspaper responded to symbols and feedback more sensitively compared to the conservative one under the conservative administration. The conservative newspaper expressed more lenient negative opinions towards the conservative administration than the liberal newspaper, supporting the home team effect. These findings have practical and theoretical implications for future studies, highlighting the application of opinion networks in social science.

William Paulet Carey and Irish Caricature, 1780–92

Though best known for his involvement with the United Irishmen and his brief career as a newspaper editor, William Paulet Carey (1768–1848) was one of the first, and most interesting practitioners of graphic satire in Ireland during its inaugural phase. Having demonstrated his potential with an artistically indifferent caricature of the Gordon Riots in 1780, he acquired a fuller knowledge of the craft engraving copy plates for William Allen, then Dublin’s primary print seller. Subsequently, Carey sought, unsuccessfully, to make his mark in London in 1783–84, though he did produce a number of distinctive engravings in the Whig cause. Back in Dublin, he resumed his relationship with William Allen, in the course of which he produced a series of superior copies of William Bunbury’s single sheets and smaller engravings for a Dublin edition of the Geoffrey Gambado’s Annals of Horsemanship . Carey possessed strong political opinions, and having manifested his unease at the energizing of Irish conservativism with caricatures critical of the advocates of ‘Protestant Ascendancy’ in 1786–87, he prioritized literary satire until the early 1790s when he joined the United Irishmen and established a radical newspaper. However, his failure, other than on one occasion, to use his artistic skills in the radical cause deprived Irish radicalism of a potentially important means of promoting their cause.

Word Meaning Relations in Sindo Newspaper Editorial Text

News in the form of editorial texts or headlines in the Sindo Newspaper on semantic meaning relations. This study aims to describe the variety of word-meaning relationships in the editorial text of the April 2023 edition of the Sindo Newspaper. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method with text analysis research. The data of this study are words and phrases in sentences in the headline that show the relationship of meaning. The words and phrases in question are the words and phrases contained in the news content. The data source for this research is the headline in the April 2023 edition of the online-based Sindo Newspaper. The data collection technique in this study uses documentation and literature study techniques. Based on data analysis, various word-meaning relationships were obtained in the form of synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, hyponyms, economies, metonyms, polysemia, collocation, and redaction.

"Intercourse … of the Most Friendly Nature": The U.S. Navy, State Power, and William Walker's Invasion of Mexico, 1853–1854

Abstract: This article examines federal officials' attitudes towards illegal filibustering expeditions, using as a case study the U.S. Navy's role in defeating William Walker's 1853–1854 expedition to Baja California and Sonora, Mexico. The officers of the U.S.S. Portsmouth (especially former Democratic newspaper editor Levi Slamm), fraternized with filibusters, evacuated their wounded, and published expansionist sentiments. Yet even expansionist officers generally disapproved of filibustering's lawlessness and tendency to damage America's reputation and diplomatic attempts to buy territory legally. This article uncovers how many apparently sympathetic actions by officers and other frontier officials were actually covert and indirect anti-filibustering tactics that they adopted to compensate for local sympathy for the invaders, lack of support from Washington, and poorly defined (or nonexistent) authority to act more decisively. Although these tactics could subvert individual filibustering expeditions like Walker's, by not openly and directly opposing filibustering, they undermined U.S. diplomatic and political aims in the long term.

A New Twist to an Age-Long Friendship: The Role of Local Defence Groups in the Conflict Between Farmers and Herders

The relationship between farmers and herders, once characterised by symbiosis and mutual dependence, has undergone a profound transformation in many regions worldwide, marked by escalating tensions and violent conflicts over resources. This paper examines a new twist to the long-standing relationship, focusing on the emerging phenomenon of local defence groups and their impact on the dynamics of conflict between farmers and herders. Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach, this study explores the origins, motivations, organisational structures, and strategies of local defence groups operating within the context of farmer-herder conflicts using a qualitative approach that relies on secondary data from scholarly journals and newspaper editorials. The data was analysed using thematic analysis. The study established that historical grievances, socioeconomic factors, and environmental pressures fuel the emergence of these groups, often as a response to perceived failures of formal security mechanisms. This research assesses the implications of local defence groups for conflict escalation, peacebuilding efforts, and governance dynamics. While these groups may offer immediate security to communities vulnerable to violence and theft, their actions can exacerbate tensions, perpetuate cycles of revenge, and undermine prospects for long-term peace and stability. Additionally, their interactions with formal authorities, including the police and military, raise questions about state legitimacy, rule of law, and human rights protections. Through a nuanced analysis of case studies from diverse regions affected by farmer-herder conflicts, this study sheds light on the complexities of local defence dynamics. It offers insights for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars alike. It underscores the importance of holistic approaches that address underlying drivers of conflict, promote dialogue and reconciliation, and strengthen governance structures to foster sustainable peace and coexistence between farmers and herders in the face of evolving challenges.

관광과 지역 정체성 정치

Despite being one of Korea's six major cities during the Japanese colonial era, Mokpo has declined to a small local city post-liberation. Since the establishment of the local government system, Mokpo has aimed to reinvent itself as a tourist destination. Over the past 20 years, the city has implemented six major tourism development and promotion projects, including night scenery lighting, a marine music fountain, urban regeneration of the old city center, a suspension cable car, hotel construction on Samhakdo Island, and branding Mokpo as a “romantic harbor city.” Throughout this process, there have been conflicts, competition, and cooperation with various civic and local interest groups. This research, based on related studies and Logan & Molotch's (2007) growth machine theory, analyzes how different groups formed growth and anti-growth coalitions and how they struggled over six key projects. Newspaper articles documenting these conflicts, competition, and cooperation were reviewed. To enhance reliability and validity, peer review and an interview with a local newspaper editor were conducted. The findings show that while the growth machine theory is useful in examining Mokpo's coalitions and their conflicts, it has limitations in fully explaining the phenomenon's complexity. The study concludes by discussing future research directions and the role of deliberative democracy in sustaining Mokpo's development as a tourist city.

The construction of stance in English and Arabic newspaper editorials: a case study

This study explores the construction of authorial stance in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To achieve this objective, the study examines a corpus of 80 newspaper editorials retrieved from two newspapers: The first publishes in English (The Guardian, the UK), and the second publishes in Arabic (Addustour, Jordan). The study adopts Hyland’s taxonomy of stance, which includes features of hedges, boosters, attitude markers and self-mentions. To analyse the data, the study follows a mixed-methods approach to identify differences, if any, in the construction of authorial stance in the two languages in the editorial genre. A functional analysis is carried out to capture these markers within contexts. The results reveal that the most frequently used stance devices in Arabic editorials are the attitude markers, followed by boosters, hedges and self-mentions. Contrariwise, the findings showcase that the most frequently used stance device is hedging, followed by attitude markers, boosters, and self-mention. The study concludes that the two languages differ in the way they construct stance in editorials, a conclusion that provides implications for second-language professional writing teachers and students. The findings provide insights that might enhance the skills of argumentative writing in English for media courses.

Boundary Work, Journalism Education, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

This article examines how the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 became a catalyst for specialized accreditation in journalism. It analyzes the rhetoric and boundary work of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism as they sought professional status for journalism. When the newspaper industry challenged the FLSA in court, these groups intensified efforts to develop an authoritative accrediting body. This study utilizes historical and archival documents to explore the dynamics surrounding journalism’s professionalization project. It demonstrates how regulatory pressures transformed soft power claims into institutionalized standards for journalism education.

From Spy to Editor – Informants of Elżbieta Sieniawska née Lubomirska (d. 1729), Wife of the Castellan of Krakow

Research on written newspapers of the Saxon period has been ongoing for several decades. By looking at the avis from the perspective of their editors and purveyors, we get a fuller picture of the mentality of society. Elżbieta Sieniawska, née Lubomirska (d. 1729), Wife of the Castellan of Krakow and one of the most enterprising magnates at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, collected information through her intelligence services. Had it not been for their efforts and every attempt to provide the Krakow castellan with news, it is likely that Sieniawska would have had serious problems keeping her knowledge of the country and the world up to date. Distinguishing in the article the profiles of spies, postal workers and newspaper editors, the author shows not only previously unpublished facts from the life of the information services, but above all points to the dependencies between their services.

“Comforting the Afflicted”: How a Small Number of Journalists Fought for Japanese Americans During the Internment

Historians have documented that newspaper editorials and radio commentaries played a role in turning public opinion against Japanese Americans and pressured President Franklin D. Roosevelt into interning them during World War II. But what has been overlooked were the efforts of a few reporters who fought to reverse journalistic and public opinion regarding the government-sanctioned, racially-inspired injustice. This study documents the work of the unsung journalists—some who addressed a limited forum and others with a national audience—who sought to end the internments and secure restoration of Japanese Americans’s civil rights. By doing so, these reporters fulfilled one of the press’s most sacred responsibilities to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Although these journalists failed to secure freedom for the internees during the war years—these reporters eventually helped restore the dignity and constitutional rights of Japanese Americans by speaking on their behalf.

Role of Public Leaders and Institutions in The Evolution of Mid-Day Meal Policy

This paper seeks to understand the role of public leaders from diverse fields in developing the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme in India. Over the years, the MDM scheme has become a benchmark for public policies, evolving from traditional and religious charity practices of serving food to people experiencing poverty into a focused implementation of an education policy with a multiplier effect on nutrition care, education, and sustainable development. This study employs a comprehensive review of existing literature, including government reports and publications, newspaper articles, journals, magazines, and editorials, to evaluate the various leadership and institutional roles in the development of the MDM scheme. The analysis concludes that the success of the MDM scheme is driven by passionate initiatives taken by public leaders and institutions, including religious organizations, NGOs, Panchayats/Municipalities, Parliament, the Supreme Court, and elected leaders at various levels, from Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers to local government officials and bureaucrats. The study emphasizes that the effectiveness of any public policy is directly proportional to the involvement and initiatives of public leaders from diverse backgrounds. The findings highlight the critical role of strategic vision, commitment, and collaboration in driving large-scale social initiatives, ultimately contributing to the betterment of millions of children across India.

An Analysis of Negative Comments on Spanish Online Newspaper Editorials

An Analysis of Negative Comments on Spanish Online Newspaper Editorials

Literary and Local History Themes of Resort Press of Black Sea Province

This article reconstructs the overall development of periodicals in the Black Sea Province during the period 1906-1917, taking into account political, economic, and social changes that influenced the publications' information policy. It argues that the formation of the resort press system in the Black Sea Province in the early 20th century was linked to the development of Sochi as a resort. The emergence of the resort press system is characterized by the short duration of publication activities and the lack of information about the personalities of the publishers and editors of the early Sochi newspapers — “Sochi Courier,” “Black Sea Region,” “Sochi Leaf.” The article restores a series of biobibliographic data related to figures such as P.N. Zhano and G.D. Toropov. It explores the specifics of the literary and local history content of Sochi city newspapers from 1906 to 1917. It is established that during the period under study, the uniqueness of the content of the early Sochi newspapers was dictated, on one hand, by the territorial specificity of the developing resort, and on the other hand, by the preferences of the readership consisting of local residents and vacationers. Resort themes were one of the main topics of publications, with the frequency of such materials usually increasing at the beginning of the season. The author concludes that materials with literary and local history focus were an important component of the information policy of each publication, often having an essayistic character. Special attention in such publications was paid to the history of the founding of Sochi.

Powerful News Sources Versus Advocate-Journalists as Factors Affecting the Editorial Agenda-Building on Sustainable Development Goals

ABSTRACT While journalism scholarship has extensively investigated the actors shaping news content, there is a paucity of research on how different factors influence newspaper editorial agendas for sustainable development issues. To bridge the gap, this longitudinal study examines newspaper editorials during two distinct periods in a developing country: T1, when the SDGs were adopted in 2015, and T2, when two state officials with a pro-development agenda came into power in 2018. A quantitative content analysis was performed on (N = 11,453) editorials collected from six mainstream Pakistani newspapers published in English and Urdu languages. Results suggest that the SDGs’ launch year failed to influence editorialists to sufficiently emphasize human development issues. However, when powerful news sources, prioritizing sustainable development over internal and external disputes, discussed these issues, their influential positions and government public relations support steered editorialists to shift focus from conflict-oriented content to human development. Concurrently, editorialists, though sporadically, also functioned as advocate journalists. Under the influence of this professional role, they allocated more coverage to issues such as rising inflation and unemployment, reflecting the hardships faced by common people, despite attempts by powerful sources to downplay these public concerns. This role positioned them as key influencers in shaping the editorial agenda.

Newspaper Editorial: Genre of Rhetorical Artifact

Newspaper editorials are considered one of the most underrated and mundane texts. While thousands of newspapers publish editorials exerting worldwide influence, it is unfortunate that they have received least scholarly attention and study. What is, therefore, baffling is that newspaper editorials are generally regarded as taken-for-granted texts and not regarded as worthy of scholarly discussion and study. Equally despairing is the approach of common readers who treat editorial texts with an all-out indifference.Against this scenario, it is vitally important to understand how editorials operate to disseminate their contents. Although newspapers have been studied from different perspectives over the centuries, there still exists a big gap in the existing literature about the study of editorial discourse from rhetorical perspectives. While addressing this gap, the paper also aims at enhancing readers' critical understanding of editorial texts and their rhetorical import.To examine this issue, the present article discusses emerging debates among communication scholars about the rhetorical functions and physical components of newspaper editorial texts.After surveying features that constitute a typical editorial text, this paper explores the approaches and paradigms that define editorials as genre of rhetorical artifacts.

The Curse of Historical Recurrence in Geoffrey Nyarota's Against the Grain : Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman

ABSTRACT: Geoffrey Nyarota, a Zimbabwean journalist of note, is renowned for his investigative journalistic skills and numerous conflicts with political authorities. He is probably the most hired and fired newspaper editor in post independence Zimbabwe. In this paper, I put forward the argument that in his memoir, Nyarota uses historical recurrence as a motif and narrative strategy to recreate a personal life story that is fraught with events that keep repeating themselves in his life. By tracing his life story from the colonial period to post independence Zimbabwe, and the near tragic events that continually trouble his life, Nyarota reconstructs a life narrative that is haunted by the curse of historical recurrence in a way that makes a personal curse become the curse of the nation of Zimbabwe.

Interactional Voices from Newspaper Editorials: A Filipino-American Contrastive Study

Using categorization of interactive metadiscourse, the present study attempted to contrastively compare editorials of two writing cultures, Filipinos and Americans. The objectives of the study were identifying the cultural features revealed by the Filipino editorialists and Anglo-American editorialists, and determining how the two writing cultures differ in the utilization of interactional metadiscourse resources in their editorials. A total of 180 editorials served as the corpus of the study; 90 from the Philippine Daily Inquirers (PDY) and 90 from the New York Times (NYT). The findings revealed that American editorialists significantly employed metadiscource resources as compared to Filipino editorialists specifically the employment of code glosses and transitional devices. This can be attributed to their writing confidence in utilizing their native language for Americans, while second language for Filipinos. Cultural, political, and social realities also play a critical role in the utilization of metadiscoursal resources in writing.The pedagogical implications were provided for future research directions.

The Ultra Ganges Mission Activities and Impact on the Press in Pre-Modern China

Before the Opium War, Protestant missionaries to China took the Ultra Ganges Mission as a link, and carried out a series of literal missionary activities, and set up missionary stations and printing presses, church schools, and Chinese and foreign-language newspapers and magazines in the South Seas and in China's Canton and Macao, etc. The newspapers founded under the guidance and support of the Ultra Ganges Mission introduced the Western newspaper concepts and newspaper editing and printing techniques into China, cultivated the early Chinese newspaper group, and laid the material and human resource foundation for the Chinese to imitate foreign newspapers and run their own newspapers after the Opium War. By analyzing the historical facts about the establishment of modern Chinese and foreign newspapers and magazines by the Ultra Ganges Mission, this essay demonstrates how the foreign newspapers in China in the first half of the 19th century promoted and influenced the emergence and development of the modern newspaper industry in China.

Discourse of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in Newspaper Editorials on Insecurity in Nigeria

The spate of security threats in Nigeria has recently become quite alarming, dominating newspaper headlines and editorials. This article examines the discourse strategies deployed in the representation of ‘self’ and ‘other’ by editorials in two Nigerian newspapers on the security challenges in Nigeria. Drawing insights from Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of critical discourse analysis, the sampled editorials on insecurity in Nigeria from two e-versions of newspapers from the northern ( Leadership Nigeria) and southern ( Punch) parts of Nigeria, published from 2017 to 2020 are subjected to discourse analysis. The paper identified the deployment of eight discourse strategies, motivated by nationalist and humanist ideologies. The newspapers polarise between self and other through positive in-group and negative out-group ideologies on the security challenges bedevilling Nigeria with attendant implications for Africa and the world at large.