Regional Newspapers Research Articles

Perceptions of police performance in a rapid-growth community

The purpose of this study was to assess citizens’ perceptions of police performance in a small, rural community that is experiencing rapid population growth. This unique setting differs from other cities and towns because of the pressure that it places on local police to respond quickly and effectively to rapid social changes. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to gather 380 surveys completed by residents living in Williston, North Dakota during the fall of 2015. The findings revealed that, in general, residents believed that the police were doing a good job addressing community concerns; however, the analysis also revealed that such views were impacted by previous victimization experiences and fear of victimization. In addition, the results indicated that participant sex was significantly related to the perceived ability of police to maintain order on the streets, whereas marital status and the frequency of reading the regional newspaper were significantly related to the perceived ability of police to control crime in the neighborhood.

НОВОСИБИРСК И РАЗВИТИЕ РОССИЙСКО- МОНГОЛЬСКИХ ОТНОШЕНИЙ В 1990-Е–2015 ГГ.: НЕКОТОРЫЕ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ

The article presents a historical picture of the behavior of Russia and Mongolia in the post-Soviet period on the example of Novosibirsk — the largest Siberian city, which is at the same time a trade, business, cultural, transport, educational and scientific center of the region. Despite the fact that the history of modern Russian-Mongolian relations is fairly well represented in Russian historiography. This study aims to partially fill this gap. The source base of the study was documents from the funds of the Novosibirsk City Archives (NGA), materials from the central regional newspaper "Soviet Siberia" and Internet resources. Novosibirsk was one of those Russian cities that took part in the intensification of Russian-Mongolian relations in the 1990s. and their fruitful development in the 2000–2010s. The most active Novosibirsk- Mongolian cooperation began to develop from the mid-1990s, and reached its peak in 2015, when Novosibirsk and the capital of Mongolia, Ulan Bator, concluded an agreement on the establishment of twinning relations between the cities for a period of five years ... An important moment in modern Russian-Mongolian relations can also be called the visit of Mongolian President N. Enkhbayar to Novosibirsk in 2006. First of all, trade, economic, political, scientific, educational and cultural ties, the city took an important place in the system of bilateral relations. Russian-Mongolian cooperation in Novosibirsk contributed to the fact that relations between states were built in the spirit of a comprehensive strategic partnership and continue to actively develop in this direction.

УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ТАРИХЫ: ТАСАДА ҚАЛҒАН ДЕРЕКТЕР

This article tells about the history of the creation of the Guryev Teachers’ Institute since the 40s of the twentieth century, about the composition of the teaching staff and students, about the material and technical base of the Institute, about the lives of the first director of the A.B. Tursynbaev Institute about record keeping, annual academic, statistical reports of the first created institute, the library, about the student dormitory, about the progress of students during the session based on data from the funds of the Atyrau regional state Archive, The Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is also noted that in 1940-1941, in the Fund of the Atyrau City State Archive on the pages of the regional newspapers “Caspian Commune” (1940) and “Socialist Construction” (1941), advertisements were presented on the topic: «Guryev State Teaching Institute by the 1941-42 academic year will accept students for the first year of the faculties of history, language and literature (Russian, Kazakh departments)», «Guryev State Teaching Institute announces the recruitment of students for the 1941-1942 academic year». These data in the article differ in that they are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time through historical documents of the Archival Fund.

The portrayal of nursing in South African newspapers : a qualitative content analysis


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The newspaper heading 'Bring back a calling for those who really care' echoed the calls of many articles in South African newspapers from 2005 to 2009. According to one newspaper editor (In search of compassion 2006:9), 'hardly a day passes in which the newspaper does not receive at least one letter from an angry, frustrated and often traumatised reader in which yet another horrendous experience at one of the provincial hospitals is recounted'. A qualitative content analysis was done to determine how South African newspapers reported issues related to nurses and nursing. A search of the database SA Media of Sabinet was performed for the period 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2009, using the keywords, 'nurse' and 'nursing'. A purposive sample of 161 newspaper articles from national and regional newspapers was analysed using a qualitative, inductive approach. Images of nurses as caring, compassionate and knowledgeable professionals were present but were overshadowed by negative reporting. Articles that portrayed nurses as overworked, uncaring, lazy, ruthless, incompetent and suffering from burnout appeared regularly during this period. The government has a major role to play in improving public healthcare in South Africa. Steps to address the nursing shortage, lack of resources and poor performance of public hospitals and clinics have to be introduced as a matter of urgency. It is, however, up to the nursing profession to take a critical look at the image of the profession portrayed in the media and to address issues of laziness, ruthlessness, uncaring and general negative attitudes amongst nurses.
 
 
 
 

‘This is ridiculous – I need to start a paper…’: An exploration of aims and intentions of regional print proprietors of post-COVID start-up newspapers

In May 2020 at the height of Australia's first national COVID lockdown, NewsCorp Australia announced that more than 125 regional newspapers would either be closed or become available online-only. Queensland was hit hard with 22 regional and 20 community newspapers shifting to online formats, and 15 community newspapers closing. Yet within months of the NewsCorp changes, a significant number of new print newspapers were being announced to fill the ‘news deserts’. Broadly welcomed by those in these local communities, the new publications suggest a reinvigoration of long-standing norms and tenets, many of which are specific to regional print news media, such as community-centred, locally-shaped news values and high reliance on ‘micro-ads’ (i.e. classifieds) and hyper-local business revenue. But given the dire prognostications about print business models, what are the aims and intentions of these start-ups (n = 22), and how do they translate their notions of community-centric news into business models they perceive as viable? Drawing on Hanitzsch and Vos framework for the discursive constructions of journalists’ role in society, we find these newspaper start-ups both reassert and claim more vigorously the normative values associated with community journalism as ‘social glue’, while also developing ‘lean start-up’ business models that capitalise on the sense of a local newspaper's ‘social good’ functions through an affective rationale. We argue this represents a shift to a new ‘hybrid’ model, with strong elements of a traditional and still feisty monitorial news values fusing with a more ‘morale-enhancing’ and explicitly social cohesion-centric role conceptions. We call it a ‘community cohesion model’.

Discussing tourism during a crisis: resilient reactions and learning paths towards sustainable futures

ABSTRACT This study’s purpose is to conceptualise the relationship between resilience and sustainability from a learning perspective. It asks how a community’s first reactions to a crisis can indicate the possible future development of a destination’s sustainability, and examines the resilience properties of elasticity, hysteresis and malleability in relation to single- and multiple-loop learning. Empirically, this study explores public discussions about tourism in northern Norway immediately before, and during the first months of, the COVID-19 crisis. Such discussions are investigated through a qualitative content analysis of articles from the regional newspaper. The findings identify a variety of perspectives among the participants to the discussions reported in the newspaper, including the coexistence of different views on tourism and sustainability and on responses to a crisis. This study frames the discussions in terms of elastic, hysteretic and malleable reactions, and illustrates three learning paths towards alternative weak and strong sustainable futures in a conceptual model. The originality of this study concerns a conceptualisation of the resilience – sustainability relationship as a set of learning paths that emphasises the dynamic and non-deterministic aspects of tourism development, aiming to evoke a sense of both responsibility and empowerment.

Review: Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy, by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano

Review: Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy, by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano

Learning about climate politics during COP 21: Explaining a diminishing knowledge gap.

A basic understanding of climate politics is necessary for citizens to assess their government’s policies. Media use is supposed to enable learning, while widening knowledge gaps. We analyze whether such a gap opened up in times of intense media coverage during the 2015 climate conference in Paris and explain learning through hierarchical regression analyses, drawing on a 3-month panel survey (n = 1121) in Germany. We find a diminishing knowledge gap: people with low previous knowledge catch up on the better informed, but overall knowledge remained low and learning was limited. This suggests a ceiling effect: possibly journalistic media did not provide enough new information for the well-informed. Closing knowledge gaps may also be explained by the media system with public television and regional newspapers reaching broad segments of the population. Higher knowledge was predicted less by media use than by education, concern, and being male.

A quantitative approach to the 2014 Mt. Ontake volcanic eruption news coverage: understanding the information gap and the public response to the anniversary coverage

This paper studies the news coverage of the 2014 Mt. Ontake eruption disaster from 2015 to 2019, and the public response to the fifth anniversary coverage. Information on the issues regarding the risk of low-frequency disaster events such as volcanic eruption is brought into the public largely through the media. Unless there is a volcano nearby, there are few opportunities to discuss volcanic disaster prevention, and enhance volcanic risk perception. Therefore, the media agendas on volcanic risk are an indicator of what people know about volcanic disaster preparedness. This study quantitatively analyzed the 2014 Mt. Ontake eruption reports of national, regional, and local newspapers to reveal their topic distributions. In addition, the anniversary gained intense public attention due to the large amount of media coverage. It was a significant opportunity for society to discuss volcanic risk. By observing people’s online responses to the anniversary coverage, a trend could be identified. We found a significant difference in media attention among the three newspaper types. The local newspaper covered four topics relating to volcanic risk in a well-balanced way, but the national and regional newspapers paid greater attention to one or two topics. Many online comments presented the view that a mountaineering should be done at individuals’ own risk, and volcano shelters would be ineffective for averting volcanic disasters. The anniversary coverage unintentionally contributes to stigmatizing or scapegoating a certain group, rather than promoting risk communication in the public sphere on the Web. With the onset of the information and communication information technology era, an online dialogue regarding disaster awareness and prevention is important. A volcano disaster risk communication strategy on the Web should be developed.

Assessment of professional burnout of media workers

The results of an assessment of professional burnout of media workers are presented. Recommendations on reduction of the burnout syndrome impact are provided. The assessment was conducted using the professional burnout diagnostics method by K. Maslach and S. Jackson adapted by N.E. Vodopyanova. The burnout syndrome is considered to be a three-dimensional component consisting of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal achievement reduction. The study involved Irkutsk regional newspapers, radio broadcasting, television and Internet media. A total of 155 people participated were surveyed: 113 females and 42 males. Most of them suffer from the professional burnout syndrome. To verify the results obtained, age and work experience were taken into account. According to the results obtained, the degree of depersonalization increases with aging. The longer the participant works, the stronger the depersonalization component. The personal achievement reduction also depends on these components. The younger the editorial staff member and the shorter his/her work experience, the stronger the negative self-esteem, underestimation of own professional achievements and success. Conversely, the more mature the journalist is, the more positively he evaluates his professional competence and creativity. At the same time, emotional exhaustion manifests itself in all respondents, regardless of their age: in two studies, the average and high degrees were revealed. It is this component that makes a contribution to the professional burnout of journalists. To reduce the impact of the syndrome, a set of preventive measures has been developed. They can prevent economic and resource losses, and increase labor productivity. The methods of preventing professional burnout are aimed at preventing emotional exhaustion, and in extreme cases - at relieving negative symptoms and combating negative consequences. They can improve productivity of media workers and reduce psychosocial risks.

The Country Teachers in the Holodomor of 1932-1933: Regional Media as an Indicator of Authority Strategies

The article is a pioneer investigating aimed to study the authority politic technology to transform the country teachers to the executants of the Holodmor of 1932-1933 in the Ukraine. The reasearch strategy created on the base of the analysis of the informational potential of the normative documents and the regional newspapers. It was argued the authority involved the teachers to the realization of the planned measures and simultaneously aimed to use teacher’s practices to conceal the fact of organizing of the Holodomor by central government. The responsibility for the process of the teacher’s mobilization to the provision of the grain was enpowered to the regional educational organizations, tradeunions, teacher meetings etc. In all cases they made decisions about participarting in the provision of the grain and other practices as a freewill retraction. However, the content of the local medias reflects the real intentions of the authority. They aimed to involve the teachers to all key activities during the provision of the grain in 1931-1932, 1932-1933. 1933-1934: the taking away the grain, participation in the tug teams, agitation for execution the plan of the grain and of money credits for government etc. It bring the possibility to conceptualize the number problem regarding the deepening historiographic notions about Holodomor as well as existential strategies of the rural population of Ukraine in 1932-1933.

A Study of Consumer Perception towards Odia Newspaper in the City of Balasore, Odisha

Newspapers are a gold mine of information. The most popular and significant source of information for all of us is newspapers. Everyone read it, from upper class to the middle class, male and female. Although there are other daily newspapers in our nation, like Times of India, The Hindu, Indian Express, and there are many regional newspapers. In Odisha, there are daily newspapers such as The Samaj, The Sambad, The Dharitri, The Prameya, The AjiKali etc., their goals are similar: to provide information and raise awareness. Customer preference differs across various brands based on factors such as pricing, effectiveness, truthfulness, and content quality. Customer devotion to a specific brand will be confirmed by higher client happiness, which will also guarantee profit and a larger customer base in the long run.The research was purelybased on the survey conducted in Balasore&Bhadrak districts of Odisha. The sampling technique used was simplerandom sampling of advertisers. The data was collected through personal interview and structuredquestionnaire. The research instrument used was a questionnaire which helped in knowing the pulse ofthe readers. The main focus is to find out consumer perception towards Odia newspapers.

ЗАКАРПАТСЬКІ УНІВЕРСИТЕТИ ТА ЇХ РОЛЬ У ЗБЕРЕЖЕННІ ПЕДАГОГІЧНОГО ПЕРСОНАЛУ УКРАЇНИ ПІД ЧАС ЕВАКУАЦІЇ

An article is devoted to analyze of social, technical, pedagogical and living problems that had place in time of removing and living of pedagogical personal in hostels of Transcarpatian region universities. This is underline an important role in decision of these problems of Rectors and Managers of Ughgorod National University, Mukachev State University and Transcarpatian Hungary Institute named after Ferenc Rakotci II. It is very important to say about the real financial help for educators and members of their families that was makes by society and government organizations of Hungary. The publications in regional newspaper “Karpatian objective” were devoted to all events that connected with removing educators during March-June 2022 year. The Authors represent short historical information about these universities and specific of their activity during work with removing pedagogic personal and children/ That is necessary to reply that during long time living in Transcarpation region educators had possibility to organize on-line lessons and lectures with students of their universities which were removed to other regions of Ukraine and abroad. For these purposes they were defined special auditoriums, Internet-connection other technical means, that give possibilities for education, participation in department sessions and control of results of training, referees and exams. The experience of distant education that had got in 2021 year during the Covid-2019 quarantine was successfully used now when it was declared the war state in Ukraine in 2022. Analyze of social and pedagogical problems that had placed in time of changing conditions of work and communication of educators and students had shown a real active mobility of all participants of educational process and their willing of safety the main fixtures and quality of Ukrainian system of higher education.

Cobertura mediática local del cambio climático en ciudades costeras: Selsey (Reino Unido), Santos (Brasil) y Broward County (EEUU)

Climate change media coverage has been criticized for giving voice to denialist sources and for its detachment from local and individual experiences, emphasizing catastrophic and global impacts. This article seeks to understand the potential connection between regional media and local climate change meanings through analysis of the journalistic output in regional newspapers in three vulnerable coastal cities that have presented developments regarding local climate governance: Santos (Brazil), Selsey (UK) and Broward County (USA). The vehicles analyzed in each of the cities are A Tribuna de Santos, The Chichester Observer and The Sun Sentinel, respectively. The method used is quantitative content analysis, focusing on the appearance of sources and recurring local issues and symbols on the climate change coverage of these regional vehicles. As a result, there are interesting differences of sources and issues between regions, with beaches and shoreline neighborhoods condensing the attention over climate impacts in Santos and Broward; and the dangers of real estate development in lowlying land and natural reserves occupying the center of attention in Selsey. Among the three locations, only Broward presented a significant degree of climate denialist sources.

Structural and Functional Characteristics of Soviet and Post-Soviet Newspaper Headlines

This article investigates headlines of regional socio-political newspaper “Ural’skij rabochij” of 1980 and 2019. The purpose of the article is to identify structural types and functional peculiarities of the newspaper headlines of different years, detect their changes and describe the dynamics caused by the tendencies of syntactical system development. It was found that the same structural types of newspaper headlines of the Soviet and the post-Soviet periods perform different functions.

Text mining analysis of newspaper editorials concerning the COVID-19 pandemic from a healthcare perspective.

Objective: This pilot study aimed to examine the content of Japanese newspaper editorials concerning the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its change over time using text mining analysis. Materials and Methods: The authors analyzed qualitative data from the editorials of five national and 12 regional newspapers on April 7 and 8, 2020 (first state of emergency) and January 8, 2021 (second state of emergency). All analyses were conducted using KH Coder version 3. Results: The co-occurrence network showed a low level of content diversity and a high degree of politicization in the COVID-19 news coverage. The top five high frequency words from the newspapers were "infection", "declaration", "healthcare", "government", and "emergency" at the first state of emergency, and were "declaration", "measures", "government", and "restaurant" at the second one. Conclusion: The results suggest a lack of detailed information and recommendations concerning the public health challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japanese newspaper editorials, even one year after the first wave of the pandemic. This study provides a data-driven foundation for the effectiveness of newspapers in COVID-19 public health communications. The extent to which the quantity and quality of information from newly emerging communication channels, such as social media, influences public understanding of public health measures remains to be established.

Аспекты грамматической вариативности немецкого языка в свете концепции плюриареальности

The variability of grammatical means, including the verification of grammatical variants in the diatopic dimension to codify them, determine areal distribution and standardization, is currently in the focus of German linguistics. Based on the data from the corpus of the international research project “Regional Variation in the Grammar of Standard German”, the article analyzes the current phenomena and processes occurring in the grammatical structure of the German language. The concepts of the “common standard” (“Gebrauchsstandard”) and pluriareality are considered as the basis for this project, which make it possible to substantiate the existence of areal grammatical variability in the written standard of the modern German language at the regional, and not only at the national, level. From a wide range of grammatical variants, the paper presents an analysis of the key issues for the structure of the German language in the sphere of syntactic variation. The problem of the framework construction of the German sentence is considered as the central one, and the areal prevalence of the main varieties of moving out of the frame parts of the sentence, which are allowed in the texts of regional newspapers, is determined. Diatopic variability of the word order in complex sentences is considered using the example of subordinate clauses with the weil and obwohl conjunctions. The materials of the project allow determining the conditions for the use of syntactic variants of such structures. A special section of the work is devoted to the phenomena of syntactic variability of the German language in Switzerland, which reveals discrepancies with other regions concerning the filling of the first place in the main sentence, as well as for the structure and word order in subject and object subordinate clauses. Analysis of the facts of syntactic variabilityand their systematization allow obtaining reliable information about the current processes in the grammatical structure of the German language, as well as about the ways of its further development.

Газета немецких оккупантов «Свободная земля»: парадигма фашистской пропаганды инвертированной цели войны против Советского Союза

Introduction. The article aims to analyze the newspaper ’Svobodnaya zemlya’ (Free Land), published for a short time (September-December 1942) by German occupying forces in Kalmykia. The newspaper has not been the object of a special study so far. Its main purpose was propaganda, used by the occupiers as one of the most important psychological and ideological weapons of war. The Nazi propaganda targeted the population of the occupied territories, subjecting the people to massive psychological and ideological pressures. Hence, every genre of the newspaper was designed and adapted to carry on disguised Nazi propaganda. Material and methods. The source for the research data was ’Svobodnaya zemlya’, the organ of the German administration at the time of Nazi occupation of the Kalmyk territory. Notably, the historiography in this country and abroaddiscusses certain aspects of fascist propaganda during the Second World War, but the regional newspapers of the German occupiershave not been examined so far. In his analysis, the author was guided by the principles of objectivity, comprehensive analysis, historicism, hermeneutics, and source criticism. Results. The purpose of the German occupiers’ newspaper was to persuade the local population that the preventive war launched and conducted by them was not a humanitarian catastrophe, but it was directed only against the “Jewish-Bolshevik government” of the Soviet Union, and the German army had a liberation mission, a happy future awaiting the liberated people. According to this propaganda, the liberated peoples were tostay calm and confident of their future; also, they were expected to actively cooperate, helping the German army tonear the victory, but any act of disobedience orjust passive resistance of individuals would havedire consequences for them, including death punishment. Conclusion. The newspaper under studyis one of the most important types of historical sources to shed light on the history of Kalmykia in the war period. Added to the source data, it helps fill in some gaps to allow for an objective discussion of controversial issues. Also, the analysis of the newspaper demonstrates some of the methods and techniques used by the Nazis in the occupied regions to deliberately disseminate falsified ideas about the goals of the war as a means of disguised propaganda.

Precedent Phenomena: Transformation Processes

Introduction. The precedent phenomenon in the title of a journalistic article is one of the characteristic features of the modern Belarusian mass media discourse. The article examines the pecularities of transformation processes of precedent phenomena in republican and regional newspapers.Methodology and sources. The theoretical basis of this research was formed by the works in the field of discourse theory (T. van Dijk, T. G. Dobrosklonskaya, V. E. Chernyavskaya), as well as the theory of intertextuality and precedence (M. M. Bakhtin, Y. Kristeva, R. Bart, I. V. Arnold, D. B. Gudkov). In the course of the study, a structural and semantic analysis of the headings and a content analysis of the articles of Belarusian newspapers were carried with the focus on difference between center and periphery. The research material was the republican and regional newspapers of Belarus in the period from 2017 to 2020 years (a total of 400 articles with heading complexes).Results and discussion. The activity of precedent information in the Belarusian journalism of the period under review is evidenced by numerous references, allusions, intertextual inclusions recorded in various republican and regional media, both unchanged and transformed. In the case of transformation, the elements of the original text, name, statement, situation can be shortened, replaced or addition may take place. In some cases, to draw attention to the media text, the author uses transformations not only at the lexical, but also at the phonetic, morphemic, syntactic levels. In general, transformed precedent phenomena prevail in Belarusian publications (about 75 %). The most subject to transformation are precedent statements and texts, and the least – situations. These tendencies are typical for both republican and regional publications.Conclusion. The application of the precedent phenomenon actualizes the background knowledge of the reader, referring to the phenomena that have already received a certain interpretation and assessment. The transformation of the precedent phenomenon allows you to link information about the event or the fact described by the author with the information already available in the linguo-cognitive base, updating and multiplying it, expanding and enriching the communicative space.

Роль электронной прессы в СМИ

Research relevance: the article examines the features of the role of the electronic press in the mass media. Research objectives: analysis of definitions and types of various newspapers in Kyrgyzstan, the role of the electronic press in the media. Materials and research methods: the article is based on historical facts and decrees about the mass media in Kyrgyzstan. Research results: in the Kyrgyz Encyclopedia of Journalism (published in 2017), information is limited to national newspapers. Conclusions: regional newspapers occupy the most important place in the history of printing in the southern region.