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ARTICLE: Media delegitimized the UK miners’ strike of 1984-1985

Media representation of the UK miners’ strike in 1984-1985 served to delegitimize the strikers’ demands and legitimize the government’s strict response, Christopher Hart, of Lancaster University, writes. Hart analysed the strike’s coverage in eight UK newspapers around six crucial moments. All investigated newspapers framed the strike as “war”, Hart discovered. Some did so explicitly (for … Continued

Tags: political journalism, representation, United Kingdom
Published: 6 Feb 2017

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ARTICLE: The plurality of Muslim sources in British news media

Previous research has characterized media organizations as institutions which portray Muslims in a quite monolithic way, argues Michael B Munnik of Cardiff University. In his new article, Munnik proposes that the process of representation in more complex. In the qualitative study Munnik conducted ethnographic interviews and participant-observation in Glasgow between 2012 and 2014, studying both … Continued

Tags: representation, sources, United Kingdom
Published: 26 Jan 2017

ARTICLE: Changing news topics in newspaper websites

Article by Michael Bo Karlsson, of Karlstad University, explores the tabloidization effect in Sweden and in United Kingdom. The study is based on a week-sized sample of six news sites during 2002, 2007 and 2012 and it covers news sites within tabloid, quality morning, and local/regional varieties. Results show that there is an overall tabloidization … Continued

Tags: newspapers, online journalism, Sweden, United Kingdom
Published: 13 Jan 2017

Despite new launches, UK local press is still dwindling

The total number of local UK newspapers is going down, with a net loss of 17 papers over 2015 and 2016, Jasper Cox writes in the media-focused newspaper Press Gazette. According to Cox’s calculations, 198 UK newspapers have closed since 2005 while only 139 new ones have been launched. Over the past five years, only … Continued

Tags: local journalism, newspapers, United Kingdom
Published: 23 Dec 2016

ARTICLE: Media Studies is a “worthless pursuit”, according to UK press

The majority of news stories on Media Studies in UK newspapers depict it as a “Mickey Mouse subject”, Lucy Bennett and Jenny Kidd, both of Cardiff University, write. The authors analysed the topic’s coverage in 11 UK newspapers, published over five years time. In total, 61.1 per cent of the analysed 248 stories had the … Continued

Tags: media education, representation, United Kingdom
Published: 16 Dec 2016

ARTICLE: Journalists use statistics often, but poorly

The way statistics are used in journalism is in most cases inadequate, write Stephen Cushion, Justin Lewis, and Robert Callaghan, all of Cardiff University. The authors analysed nearly seven thousands UK news stories on television, radio, and the internet. Over one-fifth (22 per cent) of the analysed news made reference to statistics. In some subject … Continued

Tags: data journalism, online journalism, radio journalism, television, United Kingdom
Published: 5 Dec 2016

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ARTICLE: UK reporters have not adapted to threats towards information security

Edward Snowden’s revelations and the acts in 2014 by the United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police have brought the issues of source protection and information security close to the everyday practice of reporters. Paul Bradshaw of Birmingham City University investigated awareness and actions of regional journalists on information security issues. Author conducted 76 face-to-face surveys and 10 … Continued

Tags: journalistic norms, media policy, sources, United Kingdom
Published: 30 Nov 2016

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ARTICLE: News on corruption differ by country and paper

Newspapers’ coverage of corruption is different in different countries – and in different papers, a study by Paolo Mancini, Marco Mazzoni, Rita Marchetti, all of University of Perugia, and Alessio Cornia from University of Oxford (names not in original order). The authors algorithmically analysed over 100 000 news articles from Italy, France, and the United … Continued

Tags: crime journalism, France, Italy, media systems, United Kingdom
Published: 18 Nov 2016

ARTICLE: Representations of BAME women at the UK general election

Prior to 2010, only three black women had been elected to the British House of Commons, writes Orlanda Ward, of University College London. The article investigates the intersectional effects of political actors’ race and gender through a case study of the U.K. 2010 general election. The author describes it as the breakthrough year for black, … Continued

Tags: political journalism, United Kingdom
Published: 27 Oct 2016

ARTICLE: Science news in Denmark and the UK

While the United Kingdom media market is large, open and complex, science news in Denmark works under different conditions, write Gunver Lystbaek Vestergaard and Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen, of Aarhus University. They compare science news in the UK and Denmark in order to locate small versus large country anomalies through content analysis. Results show that UK … Continued

Tags: Denmark, science journalism, United Kingdom
Published: 27 Oct 2016