ARTICLE: Local news are too hard to understand
Local newspapers are written in a manner which makes the news hard to understand, Ben Wasike of University of Texas Rio Grande Valley writes. The author analysed local newspaper content … Continued
Tag: newspapers
ARTICLE: South European newspapers adapt better to convergence
Spanish and Portuguese newspapers are more willing to embrace convergence than their Dutch, Swiss, German, or Austrian peers, a new international study finds. The project interviewed a total of 228 … Continued
REPORT: US papers fall into the hands of investment groups
Large numbers of small and mid-sized newspapers in the US are being bought off by investment groups for short term profit, a new report from the University of North Carolina’s … Continued
ARTICLE: Burmese refugees in Indiana news media
This study investigates how Burmese refugees were framed by Fort Wayne’s The Journal Gazette located in Indiana where refugee resettlement has taken place over the last two decades, write Emily … Continued
ARTICLE: Online outrages are not covered uniformly
Out of all different objects of “online firestorms”, businesses get to present their side of the story most often, write Sabine Einwiller, of University of Vienna, with Benno Vierer and … Continued
VIDEO: Media landscape in Japan and creating alternative ecosystems
We interviewed Shin Mizukoshi, a Professor of Media Studies at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. He talks to us about the current media landscape … Continued
ARTICLE: Framing the Cypriot economic crisis
New study by Vaia Doudaki, of Uppsala University and Cyprus University of Technology, Angeliki Boubouka and Christos Tzalavras, both independent researchers, examine news framing during the economic crisis in Cyprus. … Continued
PROJECT: Coverage of Brexit was strongly negative
According to The European Journalism Observatory (EJO) analysis Europe’s newspapers were overwhelmingly negative towards Brexit. EJO conducted a content analysis of the print editions of three daily newspapers in each of 12 … Continued
PROJECT: Tabloidization in the UK newspapers 1970–2010
Julia Lefkowitz is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Currently she is writing a doctoral thesis on the concept of ‘tabloidization’ as a function of the … Continued
REPORT: Global press trends
Newspapers generated an estimated US$ 168 billion in circulation and advertising revenue in 2015. Ninety billion dollars (53 percent) came from print and digital circulation, while $ 78 billion came … Continued