Weekly Newspaper Research Articles

A Comparative Analysis of Media Viability between Bantay Balita and Dateline Weekly Newspaper in the Digital Age of Journalism

A Comparative Analysis of Media Viability between Bantay Balita and Dateline Weekly Newspaper in the Digital Age of Journalism

Québec Separatism in the Polish Weekly Newspaper Czas [Polish Times

Some processes in every country’s history are significant and well-known to any scholar who is interested in the subject. In the history of Canada, there are many processes of this kind, for example relations with the Indigenous People or attitude towards immigrants. Québec separatism is one of these processes. There are a lot of publications and vivid discussions about this issue, however, they lack opinions from ethnic groups other than English speakers. This paper presents the history of Québec separatism from 1960 to 1980 seen through the eyes of Poles in Canada and expressed in Czas [Polish Times] — a weekly newspaper published by the Polish Diaspora in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which is a city in the prairies distant from Québec and the second largest agglomeration of Poles in Canada after Toronto. Czas was the only newspaper in that area which shaped the opinions of Polish speakers. The author used content analysis to best show the various aspects of research. This paper aims to present different views on Québec separatism that changed over time from ignorance through compromise, warnings, and danger to the first separatist referendum in 1980. The elaboration proves that even though there were not many original articles about Québec separatism in Czas — many of them were reprints from other papers, the Polish Diaspora was involved in keeping Canada united. It was a result of devotion to the Land of Maple Leaf as well as a reflection of the situation in Poland.

The Form and Content of Ọbasa’s Weekly Newspaper: The Yorùbá News

The Yorubà News, published by Obasa ̣ , co-pioneered journalism, nay publishing, in Yorùbá language in southwestern Nigeria. Based in Ìbàdan and ̀ published by Ìlarè Printers, ̣́ The Yorùbá News, a bi-lingual serial in English and Yorùbá languages, remarkably had varying contents and wide circulation covering its locale, Íbàdan significantly; the southern protectorate, particularly Yorùbá land appreciably; and the entire nation, Nigeria marginally. Published weekly, Obasa – the Editor and Proprietor – successfully edited ̣ The Yorubà News ́ for over two decades from 1924 – 1945 when he died. Adopting the Diffusion of Innovations theory, this study examines the form and content of the newspaper. The form examines the structure and layout of the newspaper while the content discusses and evaluates issues covered in the publication. The form of The Yorùbá News is discussed in the context of the print media as a periodical by taking technical cognizance of its physical features: format, design and layout, typography, columns, paper, size and production quality. Content-wise, the paper exhaustively describes the subject matters of The Yorubà News ́ by dwelling critically on the issues raised, examining in details and critiquing its recurrent subject matters notably: the news stories, editorials, cover, advertorials, news and notes, etc. The inter-dependence of form and content is also examined to bring to the fore the social, cultural, political, and economic values of the maiden Yorùbá Newspaper: The Yorùbá News.

Autoethnography of the Cultural Competence Exhibited at an African American Weekly Newspaper Organization

Aim/Purpose: Little is known of the cultural competence or leadership styles of a minority owned newspaper. This autoethnography serves to benchmark one early 1990s example. Background: I focused on a series of flashbacks to observe an African American weekly newspaper editor-in-chief for whom I reported to 25 years ago. In my reflections I sought to answer these questions: How do minorities in entrepreneurial organizations view their own identity, their cultural competence? What degree of this perception is conveyed fairly and equitably in the community they serve? Methodology: Autoethnography using both flashbacks and article artifacts applied to the leadership of an early 1990s African American weekly newspaper. Contribution: Since a literature gap of minority newspaper cultural competence examples is apparent, this observation can serve as a benchmark to springboard off older studies like that of Barbarin (1978) and that by examining the leadership styles and editorial authenticity as noted by The Chicago School of Media Theory (2018), these results can be used for comparison to other such minority owned publications. Findings: By bringing people together, mixing them up, and conducting business any other way than routine helped the Afro-American Gazette, Grand Rapids, proudly display a confidence sense of cultural competence. The result was a potentiating leadership style, and this style positively changed the perception of culture, a social theory change example. Recommendations for Practitioners: For the minority leaders of such publications, this example demonstrates effective use of potentiating leadership to positively change the perception of the quality of such minority owned newspapers. Recommendations for Researchers: Such an autoethnography could be used by others to help document other examples of cultural competence in other minority owned newspapers. Impact on Society: The overall impact shows that leadership at such minority owned publications can influence the community into a positive social change example. Future Research: Research in the areas of culture competence, leadership, within minority owned newspapers as well as other minority alternative publications and websites can be observed with a focus on what works right as well as examples that might show little social change model influence. The suggestion is to conduct the research while employed if possible, instead of relying on flashbacks.

Attention, attention: your most valuable scientific assets are under attack: How digital contraptions and online accounts are contributing to academic attention deficit disorder.

You have no idea how hard it was for me to get these words onto this page. No, I do not have a terrible bout of writer's block. There is not a pedantic editor standing in my way. And it is not because I don't have the time to prod at my wireless keyboard. I cannot even blame the distraction of my 3‐month‐old son who has decided that the only options in life are to scream or be bounced. Believe it or not, the fault lies entirely with my thumb—my right thumb, to be exact. This is the digit that I use to unlock my iPhone, to click on my email app, to scroll through my Twitter feed, and to text. It is my thumb that gets snared by online clickbait, leading me down the rabbit hole of Internet oblivion. It is this undisciplined and calloused thumb of mine that is responsible for my shrinking attention span, lack of productivity, and inability to sit down and write more than 140 characters. > It is this undisciplined and calloused thumb of mine that is responsible for my shrinking attention span, lack of productivity, and inability to sit down and write more than 140 characters. ### The “online” university Laugh at me all you want, but have you spent much time on a university campus lately? Check out an undergraduate classroom, visit the library, hit up the gym, peek in on a research laboratory, or stop by a faculty meeting and you will see that I am not the only one who would be well served by a thumb amputation. Sometimes it seems like all of academia has lost the ability to look someone in the eyes and listen for more than five minutes at a stretch without getting sucked back into the void of their digital …

Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience ed. by Paul Raphael Rooney and Anna Gasperini

Reviewed by: Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience ed. by Paul Raphael Rooney and Anna Gasperini Jennifer Phegley (bio) Paul Raphael Rooney and Anna Gasperini, eds., Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 241, $99.99 cloth; $69.99 ebook. Reading is the stubbornly resistant element of book history's triumvirate of reading, writing, and publishing. It is notoriously difficult to study and, as a result, has often been neglected or circumvented. Given that most nineteenth-century readers left no trace of their interaction with texts, how do we come to understand their reading practices or responses? Most records of reading come from professional writers whose perspectives are not necessarily representative of the majority. Likewise, our information about who belonged to a particular reading audience comes largely from the potentially biased claims of editors and publishers. Neither of these sources is very effective at enlightening us about the mass reading public. While this is a continuing challenge for scholars, the essays in Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Paul Raphael Rooney and Anna Gasperini, provide new evidence of how readers bought, shared, and responded to written materials. Rooney and Gasperini explain that they hope to offer studies that "turn their attention to the wider nineteenth-century media climate in order to shed light on the ways in which Victorian" readers "were conditioned by contemporaneous contact with cultural content countered in other media" (8). While the editors do not explicitly declare the working-class reader as the focus of the book, the evidence of reading practices offered by many contributors compellingly highlights the common reader. [End Page 825] Isabel Corfe, Anne Humpherys, Ruth Doherty, and Marie Léger-St-Jean devote their attention to deciphering the reading choices of members of what Wilkie Collins famously labelled the "unknown public." Corfe focuses on the lasting power of oral culture in her interrogation of why the consumption of half-penny street ballads remained strong even as the marketplace for higher quality and more diverse penny-press publications thrived. Corfe maintains that while many scholars contend that street ballads were attractive because they were cheaper than newspapers, the archival record shows that ballads remained popular beyond mid-century when the newspaper tax was eliminated. Furthermore, the most popular ballads "were ordinary song sheets rather than sheets pertaining to the gallows," as is often assumed (133). Corfe concludes that ballads were more "portable" as well as more widely available since they were carried to town and country by peddlers. Perhaps most importantly, they remained useful as "songs to be sung" by a semi-literate population looking for a cheap and productive way to spend their free time (140). Humpherys complicates notions of the popular and the canonical in her study of the advertising lists for John Dicks's reprint series. This numbered list of books, including novels priced at sixpence and dramas for a penny, were advertised in all of Dicks's publications including Reynolds's Miscellany (1846–69), Bow Bells (1862–97), and Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper (1850–1967). Humpherys sets out to determine what a "shrewd publisher thought his audience might want access to in cheap reprint editions" by examining the advertising lists (95). She notes that while working-class autobiographies often emphasized highly regarded literary works, Dicks's reprints created a counter-canon "of standard texts, not one organized by the classics, not one organized chronologically, but one of a heterogeneous mixture of all types from all periods" (104). Thus, Humpherys convincingly argues that Dicks offers us a "broader publishing and cultural context" in which to make sense of what the "'unknown public' wanted and would buy" (105). Doherty delves into the genre of the penny dreadful to determine how its narrative form kept readers engaged over an extended period of time, which, in the case of G. W. M. Reynolds's The Mysteries of London, lasted more than a decade (1844–55). Doherty explains that Reynolds kept his massive serial both fresh and familiar by alternating between microscopic and telescopic points of view, which allowed him to "create...

Penny Death Traps: The Press, the Poor, Parliament, and the “Perilous” Penny Paraffin Lamp

Penny Death Traps:The Press, the Poor, Parliament, and the “Perilous” Penny Paraffin Lamp Vicky Holmes (bio) In october 1897, Reynold’s Newspaper, Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, and the Daily News all reported on a fatal lamp accident involving Catharine House, a sixty-seven-year-old pensioned nurse of 30 Devonshire Street, Lisson Grove, Marylebone, London. Reading a newspaper in bed “by the aid of a penny paraffin oil lamp … placed on the edge of the [bedside] table,” House, in an attack of severe pain, “knocked over the lamp, setting fire to herself and the bed” (“The Fatal Lamp”). Awakened by the screams, House’s niece, Ellen Elizabeth Shae, found her aunt “standing in the middle of the room with her night attire in a mass of flames” (“The Fatal Lamp”). Shae managed to extinguish the flames with water; nonetheless, House was so “badly burnt all over her body” that she died in hospital soon afterwards (“Danger of a Penny Lamp”). Upon House’s death, the coroner, George Danford Thomas, was notified and an inquest opened. Providing a summary of the coroner’s comments on the lamp that caused the fatal incident, Reynold’s Newspaper reported that the lamp was merely a small glass bottle with a piece of tin at the top. … What could be expected if such a lamp as that was used? He noticed that the lamp was marked “Mother’s safety lamp.” Well, all he could say with regard to that was that it was the most dreadful thing to use. This was not the first accident that had taken place through lamps of this description. They were mostly imported from abroad [and] he generally saw that they were marked “Made in Germany.” (“The Fatal Lamp”) The jury returned a verdict of accidental death “and condemned [the lamp] as utterly unfit for purpose.” One juror also remarked that “the sale of such deadly lamps should be prohibited in this country” (“The Fatal Lamp”). Such newspaper reports were far from unique in the late-Victorian period. Numerous newspapers, drawing on coroners’ inquests held around the country, reported upon and supported coroners’ and jurors’ calls for government legislation to regulate the manufacture, import, and sale of these “penny death traps” (“The Fatal Lamp”). Today, we live in a society with legislation to protect us from the risks posed to ourselves both outside and inside the home. The move to fortify the [End Page 125] “Englishman’s castle” from within emerged in the late-Victorian era among the middle classes, who sought to forge the home as a safe haven. In his work on accidents in history, Roger Cooter claims that in the late nineteenth century there emerged “a widespread consciousness of accidental injuries” (108). A rise in press coverage, the formation of various accident-prevention societies, the establishment of the St. John Ambulance service, and a rise in the publication of first-aid manuals indicated an increasing interest in accidents—“their provision, treatment, and avoidance” (108–09). One could argue that this at times somewhat macabre interest in accidents in the late-Victorian era, central to which was a concern over domestic dangers, was largely a preoccupation of the middle class. In support of Elaine Freedgood’s work Victorian Writing about Risk (2000), this essay, through the tale of the penny lamp, argues that the late-Victorian middle class sought to both “banish [danger] from the domestic scene [and] create a safe England in a dangerous world” (1). Not content with eliminating risk from their own homes, they also sought to force this ideal upon the working class. The outcry over the perilous penny paraffin lamp was part of a larger middle-class movement to regulate the domestic lives of the working class. As is extensively discussed in the historiography of Victorian motherhood, it was a widely held middle-class belief that, ignorant of the dangers of an unsanitary home, working-class homemakers and mothers put their families’ lives at risk. This concern also extended to more immediate risks lurking in these homes. Evident in mid- to late-Victorian coroners’ reports was an increasing view that accidents occurring in the homes of the poor were, for the...

JONATHAN'S JOKES

During the final quarter of the nineteenth century, columns of American jokes became a regular feature of numerous British newspapers. The Newcastle Weekly Currant, for example, had a weekly column of ‘Yankee Snacks’; The North Wales Chronicle had ‘American Humour’; the Hampshire Telegraph its ‘Jonathan's Jokes’; and the Northern Weekly Gazette sported a ‘Stars and Stripes’ column. Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper introduced a regular column of ‘American Jokes’ in 1896, the same year it achieved an unprecedented circulation of one million readers. Almost half a century before Hollywood, here was a distinctively American form of popular culture which took Britain by storm. It has, however, received little academic attention. This article explores the development of the American humour column, considers the way in which it was consumed by British readers, and argues that these seemingly ephemeral jokes played a key role in shaping Victorian encounters with America.

The Community Weekly Newspaper: Telling America's Stories

(2010). The Community Weekly Newspaper: Telling America's Stories. American Journalism: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 151-157.

Innovation Management and U.S. Weekly Newspaper Web Sites: An Examination of Newspaper Managers and Emerging Technology

Using Everett Rogers's (2003) theory of innovation in organizations, this nationwide study examines U.S. weekly newspapers and their adoption and management of innovation—specifically, the online newspaper. From a theoretical standpoint, the creation of the online product was somewhat unsystematic. The data reveal that most weekly newspapers were not following any type of innovation management strategy when developing their online editions. This study echoes the findings of Saksena and Hollifield (2002) in the assessment that newspapers are adopting and managing emerging technology in a “relatively haphazard fashion.” Most newspaper managers report they did not develop a business plan for the new product or set specific, measurable goals to aid in assessing the success of the online newspaper. In addition, almost ¾ of the newspapers did not gather target-market or audience research before launching the online newspaper. The study found that newspaper managers were sensitive to their staffs' questions, needs, and concerns about publishing an online newspaper; and most involved their staffs in the decision-making process. A majority reported that they did not meet any resistance from their staffs about the adoption of new technology to produce the online newspapers.

Douglas Jerrold: A Life (1803-1857) (review)

Reviewed by: Douglas Jerrold: A Life (1803–1857) Sally Ledger (bio) Douglas Jerrold: A Life (1803–1857), by Michael Slater; pp. xii + 340. London: Duckworth, 2002, £25.00, $35.00. Douglas Jerrold (1803-57) was regarded by the mid-Victorians as part of a triumphant comic triumvirate. Now known only to the most committed of Victorian scholars, Jerrold was, in the 1840s and 1850s, regarded as the satirical equal of two of the most successful novelists of the period: Charles Dickens and W. M. Thackeray. He is a greatly underestimated literary figure, one to whom Michael Slater's richly detailed biography does ample justice. The son of strolling players, Jerrold started out in life as a boy-sailor on The Naumur, a ship captained by Jane Austen's younger brother Charles. In the early 1840s Jerrold became the driving force behind the newly established Punch, and in this role had a sometimes fraught relationship with Thackeray, the genteelly bred younger man apparently objecting to Jerrold's propensity to eat peas off his knife. A key player in Dickens's amateur dramatics troupe, and broadly sharing Dickens's social vision, Jerrold fell out with his illustrious friend over the issue of hanging: whilst Jerrold would countenance nothing less than abolition, the more famous novelist was willing to settle for the banning of public executions as an interim measure. A prolific playwright who made so little money from his theatrical endeavours that he sometimes ended up absconding to Boulogne to escape his creditors, Jerrold was imprisoned for debt. Ending his life as the highly successful editor of Lloyd's Weekly News, Jerrold, like Dickens, regarded his chief journalistic rival, George Reynolds, as a "ruffian," neither man admitting to a niggling frustration that the sensational style and content of Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper sold better than their own journalistic enterprises. [End Page 353] All these details about Jerrold's life, and many more, are put to the reader in a lucid and engaging way. But this is a biography that is much more than a sum of its parts. Much more, in fact, than a biography: Slater has in fact produced a cultural history of the theatre and the newspaper press, two of the key components of the popular and radical cultural landscape of the first half of the nineteenth century, in both of which Jerrold played a major role. Jerrold's theatrical and journalistic career had its roots in the Regency period. Jerrold's early career as a printer's apprentice finds him in London during what E. P. Thompson has described as the heroic age of popular radicalism, the years between 1815 and 1820 that witnessed the Spa Fields riots, the Cato Street Conspiracy, Peterloo, and the Queen Caroline Affair. The dominant generic modes within which Jerrold worked both as a dramatist and as a journalist were melodrama and satire, cultural modes that dominated popular radical culture of the Regency period and that Jerrold would later transplant into his mid-Victorian writings. The inheritance of radical melodrama and satire is identifiable not only in Jerrold's Victorian writings, but in those of his better-known contemporaries, not least Dickens. Slater's book does valuable service in illuminating these popular and radical trajectories in nineteenth-century literary culture, trajectories that have until recently been relatively obscured by a critical preoccupation with the aesthetics of Romanticism and realism in the nineteenth century. Jerrold set out as a young writer with determinedly theatrical aspirations, his first play performed as early as 1821 when he was a boy of eighteen. He enjoyed huge popular success with his nautical melodrama Black-Eyed Susan (1829) and, in the politically fraught year of the Reform Bill, The Rent Day (1832), written in response to the agricultural distress that propelled the Swing Riots. For all his success, Jerrold made very little money from his theatrical endeavours. Dramatists were badly rewarded in the first half of the nineteenth century: inflated salaries were paid to star performers on the stage and a great part of a theatre's income also had to be used to fund the spectacular kind of theatre (aquatic dramas, hippo-dramas, and so on) favoured by the...

The Impact of Competition on Weekly Newspaper Advertising Rates

This national study of 432 weekly newspapers found that competition from other weeklies in a county was correlated with a lower cost-per-thousand ad rate. However, when a subsample of 236 weeklies with intense competition was analyzed, this relationship with cost per thousand disappeared. Instead, the data showed that as competition became more intense, a weekly's open-column-inch ad rates decreased. Also, when market size was controlled for, ad rates for paid weeklies did not differ from free weeklies' ad rates.

Health And Harmony; Weekly Newspaper Column For Native American Health Promotion And Nutrition Education

Health And Harmony; Weekly Newspaper Column For Native American Health Promotion And Nutrition Education

Four Categories of Change at the Weekly Newspaper

Four Categories of Change at the Weekly Newspaper

From a Place of 'Horrible Destitution' to a Paradise of the Working Class. The Transformation of British Working Class Attitudes to Australia, 1841-1851

British working-class attitudes towards Australia in the 1840s, as indicated by working-class newspapers,1 reflected not only the flow of news from Australia, but also the contemporary problems of the British working class. The latter, in what was an extraordinary eventful and turbulent decade, had a profound influence on verdicts about Australia. They were a major factor in a quite dramatic change from virtual contempt to enormous enthusiasm. The emergence of this strongly favourable image appears to have been very important in the revival of emigration in the late 1840s and in the great wave of emigration which occurred in the 1850s, and inasmuch as the image was produced by developments largely external to Australia the traditionally neglected 'push* factor in emigration seems to have been of great significance. The present study is based on an examination of eight working-class newspapers,2 particularly Northern Star and Lloyds Weekly London Newspaper. Northern Star was the principal mouthpiece of the Chartist movement, with a circulation far ahead of any other working-class news paper for most of the decade. After 1848 it declined in importance (and circulation) and by 1852 had degenerated to almost 'rat-bag' status. Lloyds, established in 1842, was less militant than Northern Star, but well attuned to working-class needs and wishes. By 1851 Lloyds had emerged as the working-class newspaper with the greatest circulation, and it main tained that position for many decades. Of the other newspapers, News of the World, examined closely from 1846, was closest to Lloyds in its views. Among working-class newspapers, it most resembled the establishment press. Glasgow Sentinel, although started in 1850, is particularly valuable as a vigorous regional represen tative of the working class. The more militant Reynolds Weekly News paper dates from the same year and is perhaps the most important of the 'post-Chartist' newspapers. Finally, there are three newspapers more akin to magazines and not so clearly aimed at working-class readers, but offering strong expositions of working-class interests: Douglas Jerrold's Weekly (1846-8), edited by this popular playwright and novelist who, later in the 1850s, became editor of Lloyds; Spirit of the Age, later renamed Spirit of the Times (1848-9), a journal of vigorous, broadly Chartist views; and the Leader, from 1850 perhaps the most 'intellectual'

Who Pays The Piper

The Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association is celebrating its Silver Jubile this year and it recently held its annual meeting in Toronto. F quick review of its programme shows where these leaders of the province's weekly press are at.

The Public View of the Weekly Newspaper's Leadership Role

The Public View of the Weekly Newspaper's Leadership Role

The Weekly Newspaper's Leadership Role as Seen by Community Leaders

How do other community leaders perceive the weekly editor's role in offering opinion leadership and in initiating community projects? This study suggests the need for understanding by the editor of the community's power structure.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Weekly Newspaper Work

Advantages and Disadvantages of Weekly Newspaper Work

The Kansas Weekly Newspaper—1955

The Kansas Weekly Newspaper—1955