Newspaper Group Research Articles

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.

Research on the Perceptions of Readers on the Authenticity and Authority of Paper Media Transformation in the Traditional Paper Media Era

With the third technological revolution and the rapid development of internet industry technology, online new media dissemination has gradually become the main way for people to obtain information in their daily lives. The development of online new media has had a certain impact on the development of the traditional paper media industry. With the increasing popularity of digital publications, some newspaper groups have chosen to transform into integrated media to maintain operations. This article starts with the current situation of paper media transformation, and in the current lack of research on the relevant views of ordinary readers and audience groups on paper media transformation, through in-depth interviews with readers who have experienced the traditional paper media era in society, explores their views on the authenticity and authority of paper media transformation and development, and further understands that paper media is not only limited by the limitations of traditional paper media era reading methods for people, It is also a way for people to pursue the authenticity and authority of news through paper media reading.

Service Innovation and Value Creation in Local Journalism During Times of Crisis

ABSTRACT Journalism innovation, according to service innovation theory, is about providing new journalistic services that create value for audiences, society, and the news organisation itself. This study explores how local news media responded to the Coronavirus crisis in terms of service innovation. Based on interviews with editors and top management representatives at two local newspaper groups in Norway (N = 20), we show how local newspapers developed new digital services in response to audiences’ need for guidance, overview, and a sense of togetherness, and how the media operations generated revenues in the process. Theoretically, the study identifies two key innovation dynamics in local journalism during a crisis: A social-economic value creation dynamic which captures how local newspapers appropriate their business model to accommodate new service offerings and balance social and economic value creation considerations; and a service system-audience experience dynamic which captures how innovation in journalistic offerings are linked to concurrent innovations in journalistic production processes. This research enhances the understanding of journalism innovation as a value-creating phenomenon and the factors that stimulate such value creation during crises.

Strategi Harian Serambi Indonesia dalam Mempertahankan Eksistensi Surat Kabar di Era Media Baru

The challenges of print media in the current technological era are growing rapidly. The era where the role of technology is increasingly influencing the dissemination of information that spreads online and offline. This study aims to determine the strategies used by the print media of the Serambi Indonesia daily newspaper in maintaining its existence in the new era or the digital era. This study uses a qualitative descriptive analysis method with one informant. Data collection techniques through interviews and documentation. The author found the results of this study regarding the strategy carried out by the Serambi Indonesia daily print media, namely being selective in the selection of news content by approaching schools. Participating in the Tribun group, Serambi Indonesia joined together into local newspaper groups throughout Indonesia. Serambi Indonesia also carries out media convergence by creating online media, radio and social media. The choice of news that deserves to be published in the newspaper is accurate news, and the news presented has accurate content that does not cause irony or hoaxes. Therefore, the Serambi Indonesia Daily newspaper is still needed by many people and it is also still in great demand by the public compared to online media. Harian Serambi Indonesia remains a proud newspaper and also a trust in the hearts of the people, even making it the oldest newspaper that still exists in the era of the birth of new media in the development of technology in Indonesia.

It’s a Dalliance! A Glance to the First Decade of the Digital Reader Revenue Market and How the Google’s and Facebook’s Payments Are Starting to Shape It

This exploratory article maps the development of the reader revenue market, and its aim is twofold: first, to examine how the digital reader revenue market was structured in 2010–2020; second, to investigate how the market was configured during 2020–2021. The article argues that in the past decade, large news publishers were rewarded for the attention they received from their readers in form of digital subscriptions. Their ability to monetize their audience attention gave them a dominant position in the reader revenue marketplace. In 2020–21, Google’s and Facebook’s payments to news publishers started to further strengthen dominant companies as they were reaping the monetary benefits of them. Platform payments raise a concern because news publishers revenue models may become even more ingrained in the platform ecosystem. Additionally, local news outlets are largely excluded from the large platform payments, potentially weakening their financial position in the reader revenue marketplace. However, platform payments are temporary in their nature, and long-term impacts on the market structure are hard to predict. The analysis here is based on data retrieved from three platform companies and 14 newspaper groups operating in 9 Western markets.

Occupational gender segregation and gendered language in a language without gender: trends, variations, implications for social development in China

This paper proposes a textual analytics approach to the discovery of trends and variations in social development. Specifically, we have designed a linguistic index that measures the marked usage of gendered modifiers in the Chinese language; this predicts the degree of occupational gender segregation by identifying the unbalanced distribution of males and females across occupations. The effectiveness of the linguistic index in modelling occupational gender segregation was confirmed through survey responses from 244 participants, covering 63 occupations listed in the Holland Occupational Codes. The index was then applied to explore the trends and variations of gender equality in occupation, drawing on an extensive digital collection of materials published by the largest newspaper group in China for both longitudinal (from 1946 to 2018) and synchronic (from 31 provincial-level administrative divisions) data. This quantitative study shows that (1) the use of gendered language has weakened over time, indicating a decline in occupational gender stereotyping; (2) conservative genres have shown higher degrees of gendered language use; (3) culturally conservative, demographically stable, or geographically remote regions have higher degrees of gendered language use. These findings are discussed with consideration of historical, cultural, social, psychological, and geographical factors. While the existing literature on gendered language has been an important and useful tool for reading a text in the context of digital humanities, an innovative textual analytics approach, as shown in this paper, can prove to be a crucial indicator of historical trends and variations in social development.

Desktop Publishing Systems in Nigerian Media Production: A Study of Vanguard Newspapers

Desktop publishing technology has not only enabled people with requisite computer application skills to produce documents ranging from layout design to typography, but has also, indeed, revolutionized the newspaper publishing business. Newspapers adopt the desktop publishing processes not only in pre-press page designs but also in satellite printing of their titles. The study is anchored on Technological Determinism Theory, and examines the application of desktop publishing processes in Nigerian newspapers, with focus on Vanguard Media titles. Findings revealed that all titles in the newspaper group adapted to full desktop publishing since 2002 and have continued to apply the technology in all aspects of publishing. Based on these findings, suggestions were made including retraining of all journalists in various computer application skills to enable them to effectively apply the technology in their professional practice.

«THE CASE OF DREYFUS» THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE FRENCH MEDIA OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY

The article analyzes the role of the press during one of the largest political scandals in France at the end of the nineteenth century, “The Dreyfus Case.” In the context of this case, there are such publications of the following direction as anti-Dreyfusari, drayfusari and revisionist. The most numerous group of newspapers we call anti-Druid-fuehrers were convinced of the captain’s legitimate condemnation and defended the state treason as an officer of Jewish origin who had all the necessary reasons to sell military secrets to Germany. The second group of editions, the driftors, remained the least numerous until the very end, but its influence was definitely the most powerful. This camp championed the honor of a captain who, in their opinion, had no personal reasons to commit a crime of such magnitude. The name of the third group of editions - the revisionists - speaks for itself. There were over 15 of them, and they defended the right of the captain and his associates to review the lawsuit.

Different Reporting Styles of Similar News: Comparative Study of Two Urdu Newspapers Headlines

This research explains the reporting style of two newspapers of similar news items. It is related to the headlines styles of reporting in print media. Print media plays very strong role in present era, it’s very important to know how media reveal same news in different point of views. This research paper investigates the news headlines through critical discourse analysis, of 2 daily Urdu newspapers correspondingly from First April to 7th April 2020. In this research paper COVID19 (Corona virus) news headlines were examine in two Urdu Newspapers Daily Jang newspaper and daily Express Newspaper. Newspapers of one week were examined for this research. The Daily Jang based in Karachi. Since 1939 is the oldest newspaper of Pakistan and continuously in publication. The Daily Jang newspaper is published by the Jang Group of Newspapers. The Daily Express is one of Pakistan's most broadly circulated Urdu Newspapers. Through Critical Discourse Analysis it was analyzed that the headlines in both the newspapers have different style of text, meaning and ideology because Jang and Express Newspapers have much difference in polices and in ideology.

Dynamics of Campaign Reporting and Press-Party Parallelism: Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism and the Media System in Turkey

ABSTRACT How do press-party parallelism dynamics unfold in media systems that experience competitive authoritarianism? We analyze the content of news coverage of political parties across four consecutive national election campaigns in Turkey (2002, 2007, 2011, and 2015) to track changes in press-party parallelism. We explore three dimensions of press-party parallelism in order to study its dynamics: visibility of political parties, the effective number of parties represented in newspapers, and lastly, favorability toward political parties. First, within each campaign cycle, as election day approaches, visibility of the incumbent party increases while the visibility of other parties tends to decline. Likewise, the incumbent party’s visibility increases across the four elections we study. Second, for all newspaper groups, the number of parties that receive favorable or unfavorable coverage declines over consecutive election terms. Third, the incumbent party is the only that gains in terms of positive coverage within and across each election campaign period. Taken together, we show evidence for press-party parallelism dynamics in a competitive authoritarian country.

The Rise and Fall of Diversity in the Liverpool Newspaper Press

Liverpool can boast one of the earliest newspapers in the north of England. Then, in the nineteenth century, as trade and population soared, the ‘Second City of Empire’ was served by the most extensive and diverse newspaper press in England outside London. However, the twentieth century saw the Liverpool press become a virtual monopoly by one newspaper group. Today, just the Liverpool Echo survives. The history of the Liverpool newspaper press was not simply a reflection of the rise and fall of Liverpool as a centre of trade. Trade was a key enabler for growth but the subsequent decline was largely due to commercial factors within the wider press industry. In between, a continually innovative press demonstrated how diversity could work to everyone’s advantage. Liverpool’s experiences and achievements are relevant today in a world where the press is often much less diverse than its readership.

The Effect of Reading Newspaper and Short Stories on Students’ Vocabulary Size at Cenderawasih University Setting

This study aimed to investigating the effect of reading newspapers and short stories on students' vocabulary size and whether there is a significant difference between students who read newspapers and short stories at third semester of English Education Study Program in Cenderawasih University. The method of the research was quasi-experimental. The sample of the research was the students of third semester English Education Study Program at Cenderawasih University. It consisted of 36 students who were divided into two groups, i.e., Newspaper group and Short Story group, which were given the texts as a treatment based on their name's group. The test -2,000-VLT design of Nation- was used as the primary instrument test to measure the students' vocabulary size before and after given treatment. After analyzing the data, both groups demonstrated a significant increase in vocabulary size. The Newspapers group increased from 1,206 to 1,556 words, while the Short Story group shows the mean 1,134 words moved up to 1,469 words. However, the T-test shows that the vocabulary size of both the Newspaper group and Short Story group is not different significantly. Keywords: Effect, Vocabulary Size, Reading, Newspaper, Short Story

EFFECTIVENESS OF DIABETIC FOOT EXERCISES USING SPONGES AND NEWSPAPERS ON FOOT SENSITIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a critical public health problem, and its prevalence in Indonesia remains high. Diabetes mellitus may cause complications, one of which is neuropathy that can impair foot sensitivity. This requires a treatment by doing diabetic foot exercises using sponges and paper.Objective: To examine the effectiveness of diabetic foot exercise using sponges and newspapers on foot sensitivity in patients with diabetes mellitus.Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study with pretest posttest with a control group research design, which was conducted at Public Health Center Depok III, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. An accidental sampling technique was used to select participants, with a total sample of 108 respondents consisting of 36 respondents in a control group, 36 respondents in a sponge group, and 36 respondents in a newspaper group. Data were analyzed using Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney test.Results: Among the three groups, only those who received foot exercises using sponges and newspapers had a significant effect on foot sensitivity (p <.05). However, there was no significant difference on the effect of foot exercise on foot sensitivity between sponges and newspapers group (p >.05).Conclusion: The use of sponges and newspapers in foot exercise could significantly improve foot sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. It is therefore recommended for nurses to provide the foot exercise as a part of nursing practice in both hospitals and community health centers.

Quality of argumentation by seventh‐graders in local socioscientific issues

AbstractThe study's purpose was to evaluate the quality of argumentations presented by students in relation to local socioscientific issues (SSIs). The participants, 36 seventh‐grade students from state schools, were divided into three learning groups—outdoor group, newspaper group, and presentation group. Five local environment‐related SSIs were selected: an artificial lake, chicken coops, leather tanneries, base stations, and hydroelectric power plants (HPPs). Different data sources were provided to each group pertaining to their SSIs. The outdoor group learned through field trips, the newspaper group acquired information through newspapers, and the presentation group learned via presentations. Each group gathered data from their unique learning sources, which then formed the basis of their arguments. After a pilot study, each group experienced the same argumentation practice within smaller groups. The recorded discussions were transcribed, and the qualities of 582 argumentation episodes chronicled over a period of 10 weeks were evaluated using an analytical assessment tool. It emerged that the quality of argumentations of each group varied by the data sources and the contexts of the SSIs. While the newspaper group displayed the best performance in 4 out of 5 issues, the outdoor group had the lowest performance overall. In terms of generating high‐quality argumentations about the artificial lake, chicken coops, and base stations, the newspaper group ranked top, followed by the presentation group, and then the outdoor group. HPPs proved to be the most challenging context for students across all groups. The study sums up with discussions of the differences between the quality of argumentations of the various groups and the implications of the study's conclusions.

SOME ISSUES OF THE SOVIET NATIONAL PRESS FORMATION
 IN AUTONOMIES OF THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS IN THE 1920S’

The article discusses the formation and development of the Soviet national press in the autonomies of the North Caucasus in the first post-revolutionary decade. The national press became one of the primary tasks in building socialist culture and socialist ideology. The article reflects the role of the media as a tool for the formation of public consciousness and the most powerful method of mass education and the fight against illiteracy. The process of Latinization of the alphabets of mountaineers is considered, the reasons for this process are explained, the advantages of national alphabets on a Latin graphic basis are revealed as compared to the majority of the highlanders, using the Arab one. The author notes that Latinization was a kind of catalyst for the development of the print. The range of issues that the first Soviet newspapers were supposed to cover as ideas and principles of the Soviet state is defined. The article describes the structure of an extensive media system aimed at all sectors of society. There are groups of newspapers of regional significance, published in Russian, as well as newspapers, published in the local languages of the mountaineers. The role of local newspapers in the process of emergence and development of national artistic culture is shown. The first newspapers became the focus of the development of the national literature of the highlanders, since it was on the pages of the newspapers that the representatives of the mountain national artistic intelligentsia published their first works. The process of creating associations of proletarian writers, which took place by rallying local authors of the artistic word around major printed publications of the region, is revealed.

Chinese Newspaper Groups in the Digital Era: The Resurgence of the Party Press

Chinese Newspaper Groups in the Digital Era: The Resurgence of the Party Press

Examining the Data Component Used by Seventh Grade Students in Arguments Related to Local Socioscientific Issues

The purpose of this study is to examine the quantity and quality of the data component used by seventh-grade students in their arguments related to issues unique to the city of Bolu: Seben Lake, chicken coops, leather tanneries, base stations, and Hydroelectric Power Plants (HPP). Three different study groups, with 12 participants in each group (in total 36 participants), were the subject of this research, which was conducted over a total of 10 weeks. Each study group interacted with a different data source: the outdoor group collected data on field trips, the newspaper group read and examined related articles in the press, and the presentation group listened to visual presentations. The groups reflected the data obtained from their data sources to the argumentation implementations. The resulting of content analyses, based on the items in Toulmin’s (1958) argument model showed that, of the total of 847 data components generated in the participants’ argumentations, the newspaper group used the most data in their arguments, while the presentation group employed the least data. The outdoor and presentation groups generally utilized data based on the data cited in their data source, while the newspaper group used more data based on their daily life experiences. The highest amount of data was employed in relation to the issue of leather tanneries based on data acquired during field trips in the outdoor group, in relation to HPP based on visual presentations in the presentation group, and in relation to Seben Lake based on daily life experiences in the newspaper group. In conclusion, the quantity and the quality of the data component used in students’ arguments with regard to local socioscientific issues changed according to the data source with which they interacted and the content of the socioscientific issue. In light of this, a few suggestions are made in this paper’s conclusion.

A Unique Approach Toward Cancer and Tobacco Control Using Philately As Innovative Tool

Background and context: Presently estimated annual cancer cases in India are ∼1 million new incidences and 0.6 million deaths leading to a serious problem. Tobacco habit is very common in India with estimated 330 million tobacco users and is attributed to ∼45% of all cancers. Presently each year ∼0.9 million Indians die due to tobacco related diseases including cancer. Aim: Thus combined awareness programs on cancer and tobacco are essential to educate people for avoiding risks of cancer and other diseases. Strategy/Tactics: In our unique approach, we have included in the PowerPoint & other presentations anticancer and antitobacco philatelic items along with up-to-date data, pictures etc. Cancer awareness presentation is divided in 28 sections covering cause, treatment, detection etc. emphasizing prevention in respect of dietary and lifestyle habits. In our pioneer paper, we have demonstrated that anticancer and other stamps can be used to describe different aspects of cancer covering 12 sections. Further based on universally accepted “caution” describing seven danger signals of cancer, we have created equivalent words in two Indian languages namely Bengali and Hindi spoken by ∼215 and ∼490 million people worldwide. These are included in our presentations to aware people about its symptoms. Our philatelic display on tobacco is divided in 19 sections including tobacco associated diseases, tobacco and women and children, quitting tips etc. Outcomes: Since 2002, we have conducted ∼230 awareness programs in various organizations in urban and rural areas in individual capacity and as Principal Investigator, Tobacco Cessation Centre, Kolkata, during 2005-09. It is found that irrespective of age and educational status, everybody understands the message conveyed through this visual display. A section of people has quitted the tobacco habit while another section could reduce tobacco consumption significantly. Further we have published 70 and 40 write-ups on cancer and tobacco respectively in several widely circulated Indian newspapers, magazines etc. that have reached the community. We have also delivered radio and TV talks. All these efforts have helped, to some extent, to control cancer and tobacco in India. Based on this work I have received prestigious 'I'm like me' award in the preventive healthcare category of the most circulated Bengali newspaper group in West Bengal. This large collection of stamps on cancer has been recognized as the world Record and published in Limca Book of Records 2018 page 30. What was learned: It is learnt that along with other methods this philatelic approach may be adopted for getting excellent results.

Copy Writing Elements and Brand Relationship: An Analysis of Print Advertisements’ Language

Language and advertising are interconnected and play a significant role in communicating a message directly or indirectly. Direct roles concern buying decisions of the consumers while indirect roles establish a lasting relation of consumer with the brand. This research studies the language of copywriting of advertising focusing its role in developing consumer-brand relationship. The research uses mix of quantitative and qualitative methods based on the framework of Laswells model of communication. The study uses content analysis for examination of the language of print advertisements and the consumer brand relationship. Survey is used as method of data collection from magazines including Akhbar e Jahan and MAG published by Jang group of newspapers. The study finds that figurative language style is used more in Pakistani print advertisements in comparison to literal language. Moreover, the results prove that the copy writing of print advertisements does play a significant role in developing consumer-brand relationship.

Discursive constructions of scientific (Un)certainty about the health risks of China's air pollution: A corpus-assisted discourse study

This article gives a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of the health risks of China's air pollution (2011–2014) in Chinese and Anglo-American English-language newspapers with a view to examining their particular ways of constructing scientific (un)certainty about health risks. Findings suggest that although health information has been addressed in the two groups of newspapers, the Anglo-American English-language newspapers prefer to amplify and dramatize the certainty about health risks through such discursive strategies as predication, nomination, and the rhetoric of quantification, while the Chinese English-language newspaper is inclined to highlight the uncertainty about health risks through such discursive strategies as particularizing the Chinese context, complicating the causes of health problems, and arguing for more scientific tests.