Regional newspapers

В статье анализируется деятельность информационного бюро, сы-
гравшего огромную роль в изменении массового сознания советского народа.
Чрезвычайные условия способствовали рождению многих актуальных те-
оретических идей. Морально-психологическая обстановка в тылу не была
однозначной. Наряду с патриотическим порывом, охватившим большинство
граждан, имели место панические настроения, дезертирство, нарушение
дисциплины. Были необходимы мощные средства пропаганды и агитации.

У статті визначаються принципи селекції інформаційних повідомлень інтернет-ЗМІ: майже повна відсутність ексклюзивних джерел, залежність від прес-релізму та гарячих новин, фрагментарність у подачі новин з регіонів. Також укладено рейтинг згадуваності областей України у новинах центральних ЗМІ, визначені провідні теми цих новин та їх джерела. На основі цих даних робиться висновок про те, що інформаційні сайти відмовилися від генерування новин, натомість стають майданчиком, на якому журналісти розміщують передруки – резонансну інформацію з інших джерел.

Purpose: British Capitalism unified India with a centralised administration, network of railways and communication and gave birth to Indian Middle Class which operated amongst the varied linguistic communities at regional, sub-regional and all-India levels under the umbrella of British Capitalists. Assamese Nationalism was fostered by a sub-regional Middle Class which was opposed to domination of home market by the British Capitalist as well as Indian Middle Class. Assam’s Nationalist sentiment, often termed as Regionalism, evolved within the broader pan-Indian nationalism against British domination, on the foundation of Cultural Nationalism based on a common language. Assamese print journalism started by “Auronodoi” became vehicle for propagating this regionalism which even advocated Chauvinism during Ambikagiri’s “Chetana”. Print journalism continued to catalyse Assam’s nationalist sentiments often setting the agenda. As Assamese nationalist conscience developed, patronization for print journalism grew that eventually led to a newspaper revolution. This paper attempts to look at this interdependence. 
Approach: An analytical approach leaning on theoretical framework was adopted to establish correlation between growth of print journalism and Assamese Nationalism which was then verified with data.
Findings: Print journalism, while providing platform for germination, growth, spread and sustenance of Assamese national conscience over the years, also gets boost from it.
Value: Despite apparent evidence and availability of data, no attempt has so far been made to interpret Assamese nationalism as factors for growth of print journalism in Assam. Doing so may lead to theorization of the correlation at a later stage. 
Keywords: Regionalism, Nationalism, Chauvinism, print journalism, newspaper revolution.

In this paper we present all the texts concerning the Katsanochoria villages in Epirus that can be found in the “Φωνή της Ηπείρου” newspaper, which was published weekly in Athens from 1892 till 1915. In the articles one can learn about the Diaspora of the people of that time, about several kinds of social events and, in general, about all news from this particular area. But one must be careful, because, as today, newspaper articles were sometimes written to observe an end that was different than “objectivity”. This is obvious in the cases of articles about community disputes and the policies of the Ottoman State. The study is followed by a general index and a choice of photographs depicting some of the people mentioned in the texts.

Growth in the Face of Industry Decline: A Case Study of Le Télégramme, French Regional Newspaper  by  Philippe Wallez, Université Aix-Marseille, France  and JB Lesourd, Professor Emeritus, Aix-Marseille University
Abstract
The case of Le Télégramme, a French local newspaper based in Brittany (NW France), is quite exceptional. Starting from 80,000 paid-copies in 1944, only on one market which is the Finistère département, (“metropolitan” France is divided into 96 départements of various sizes), it has increased its circulation year after year reaching the 200,000 mark in 2014, while operating in three départements. This feat is unique in the French industry.
The profit margin has been reduced over the last few years, due to the shrinking advertising revenues as a consequence of the disruptive innovation of the digital platforms. However the group has always been profitable to various scales. It has expanded and then maintained its staff of journalists, it chose to. because it is operating in a competitive market (1.1 million households) in a duopoly with Ouest-France, the leading daily newspaper in France.
Two categories of reasons may explain this remarkable resilience. Endogenous: the business model is relevant, the management of the group is safe and cautious when most regional newspapers are indebted to finance the transition print/web. Exogeneous: Le Télégramme is
connected so far to its market, fulfilling many conditions regarding the appetence for local news.
The features of this market are the following: community-bounded, with a strong shared identity, high level of educational attainment, favorable economic situation. But this relative prosperity might be fragile. In 2014, a few years after many other protagonists, the group has erected a paywall
Keywords: Business model -Le Télégramme – Community - Proximity- Diversification - Competition - Spin-off – Connection to market

Due to concentration, in the United States and France, competition is about to be eradicated in the local and metropolitan newspaper industry.  The most powerful groups have purchased, and merged outlets, most papers whatever the scale they are operating are in a monopolistic position. This aspect is much debated. Some scholars regret the lack of pluralism which is historically the function of the press in a representative democracy. Pluralism is highly regulated by the states, but a fact is proved: laws could not prevent concentration. Some experts conclude that a monopolistic position may even generate a decrease in the electoral turnout.
Economists are divided about the impact of concentration regarding business. Some point out that circulation has dropped in newly monopolistic areas. But they do not provide the undoubtedly proof of a correlation between those two facts. The press is in a crisis of credibility and circulation remains only one factor of the business. Economies of scale and financial benefits (price-fixing) of a monopolistic position may justify concentration on an economic level. Some companies have enjoyed double-digit profit while in a monopolistic position.
But this time is over. The emergence of the Internet has generated a highly competitive market regarding advertising and news business.  Our topic is thus not lamenting the good old days of competition, but it is pioneering. In the United States, many start-ups, mostly non-profit, challenge the legacy regional and metropolitan newsgroups the same way that already big groups do nationwide, such as Buzzfeed or Quartz or Vox. Entrepreneurs, in a Schumpeterian meaning, strive to replace stagecoach owners and build the railways of the future.  The trend is much less clear in the French case.
Our research wants to assert that marketing and full editorial competition still boosts circulation and business (Brittany in France) and is an unavoidable rendezvous for the legacy groups in the digital news era because they are forced to abandon the corporate culture of the past.
Keywords: competition ; concentration ; digital ; monopolistic ;  Brittany ; Chicago Tribune ; Chicago Sun-Times ; Ouest-France ; Le Télégramme ;  corporate culture

The UK newspaper industry is in a state of flux. Traditional, lucrative, income from print advertising and title sales has declined, in some cases dramatically. The search for alternative revenue from online sources began in earnest a number of years ago with different publishers having varying degrees of success. There has been innovation and expansion into a range of web business models but, who’s doing what? This 2010 study reviewed the online presence of 66 geographically spread UK regional newspapers in each of the cities in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The study analysed activity across a range of business models, looking not only at traditional income streams such as advertising and subscription, but also new revenue models, including those involving third party companies and other online resources. An Excel spreadsheet with binary coding was used to compare the spread of activity by individual titles and publishers. Along with a review of literature, interviews were held with industry professionals across a range of publishers and software developers including Johnston Press, Newsquest and PageSuite. While industry observers are suggesting a Kuhnian revolution to revitalise fortunes, the findings show that it’s more a Darwinian evolution. The issues facing the UK industry are not unique. Are there lessons to be learnt from counterparts in the USA, especially given the presence in the UK of Gannett Co., Inc (owner of the Ithaca Journal), through its subsidiary Newsquest plc, for the last decade? How does the online presence of Newsquest publications contrast and compare with that of the Ithaca Journal? Study is ongoing, including the reaction to big news items such as a Royal engagement and how differing media is used amongst publishers to interest, inform and involve their readers.

Hypertexts, interactivity and multimedia are the features of the Web. Features like blog, podcast, flash, RSS, hyperlinks and instant messaging has made the designing and delivering news online very innovative. Web features are designed to allow greater user participation, user-generated content, and user-friendly online environments. In short, Web features can engage and empower Web users. However, online journalism in Odisha is still undermined and underestimated. Most of the main stream Odia newspapers use their websites only 'shovelling' news from their print versions, though some of them provide some special features. This research is an attempt to make a comparative feature analysis of five online leading Odia newspapers. The features are listed out in tables and then discussed from different perspectives.

Committee: Jean-Baptiste Lesourd, Professeur  à Aix-Marseille Université (Thesis Advisor)  -  Eli M. Noam, Professor at  Columbia University, New-York, USA - Fidélia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, Professor at  Aix-Marseille Université -  Paulo Faustino, Professor  à l’Université de Porto, Portugal -  Rodney Benson, Professor à New-York University, New-York, USA

Abstract
Due to concentration, in the United States and France, competition is about to be eradicated in the local and metropolitan newspaper industry.  The most powerful groups have purchased, and merged outlets, most papers whatever the scale they are operating are in a monopolistic position. This aspect is much debated. Some scholars regret the lack of pluralism which is historically the function of the press in a representative democracy. Pluralism is highly regulated by the states, but a fact is proved: laws could not prevent concentration. Some experts conclude that a monopolistic position may even generate a decrease in the electoral turnout.
Economists are divided about the impact of concentration regarding business. Some point out that circulation has dropped in newly monopolistic areas. But they do not provide the undoubtedly proof of a correlation between those two facts. The press is in a crisis of credibility and circulation remains only one factor of the business. Economies of scale and financial benefits (price-fixing) of a monopolistic position may justify concentration on an economic level. Some companies have enjoyed double-digit profit while in a monopolistic position.
But this time is over. The emergence of the Internet has generated a highly competitive market regarding advertising and news business.  Our topic is thus not lamenting the good old days of competition, but it is pioneering. In the United States, many start-ups, mostly non-profit, challenge the legacy regional and metropolitan newsgroups the same way that already big groups do nationwide, such as Buzzfeed or Quartz or Vox. Entrepreneurs, in a Schumpeterian meaning, strive to replace stagecoach owners and build the railways of the future.  The trend is much less clear in the French case.
Our research wants to assert that marketing and full editorial competition still boosts circulation and business (Brittany in France) and is an unavoidable rendezvous for the legacy groups in the digital news era because they are forced to abandon the corporate culture of the past.
Keywords: competition ; concentration ; digital ; monopolistic ;  Brittany ; Chicago Tribune ; Chicago Sun-Times ; Ouest-France ; Le Télégramme ;  corporate culture

Збірка містить матеріали про слободу Липці (нині село Харківського р-ну Харківської обл.) та Липецьку волость Харківського повіту (уїзду) Харківської губернії на шпальтах газети «Утро», що видавалась у Харкові впродовж 1906–1916 рр. У збірці наведено бібліографічний покажчик публікацій, здійснено їх передрук, а також укладено тематичний, географічний та іменний індекси до оприлюднених матеріалів.

Видання може бути корисним науковцям (історикам та краєзнавцям), а також усім, хто цікавиться історією Слобідської України, Харківщини та, зокрема, с. Липці.

Збірка містить матеріали про слободу Липці (нині село Харківського р-ну Харківської обл.) та Липецьку волость Харківського повіту (уїзду) Харківської губернії на шпальтах газети «Южный Край», що видавалась у Харкові впродовж 1880–1919 рр. У збірці наведено бібліографічний покажчик публікацій з короткими анотаціями, здійснено передрук кількох десятків найцікавіших публікацій, а також укладено тематичний, географічний та іменний індекси до оприлюднених матеріалів.
Видання може бути корисним науковцям (історикам та краєзнавцям), а також усім, хто цікавиться історією Слобідської України, Харківщини та, зокрема, с. Липці.

This paper argues that the local weekly newspaper was the most popular platform for the publishing of history in the 19​ th​ century. This finding, based on quantitative content analysis, has far­reaching implications for the history of publishing, for historiography, and for the history of journalism. The paper gives a brief background to the scale and content of local newspaper publishing, presents the quantitative evidence for newspapers' leading role in history publishing, and compares the quantity of content published in newspapers, magazines and books. A typology of historical content in local newspapers is offered, with examples including chronologies, news of archaeological finds, dedicated 'Notes and Queries'­style columns, folklore, dialect and wholesale scholarly transcription of historical sources. While historical topics from across the world were covered, the focus was on local history. This huge mass of history writing was produced mainly by gentleman amateurs, local newspaper editors, and readers, all part of a 'local history community' (Kidd). These individuals also wrote books and articles for transactions of learned societies and for popular magazines. Local history material often moved from the columns of local newspapers into books, usually published from the same newspaper office. The scale of 19​ th​ ­century local newspaper publishing and the popularity of local history articles, suggests that historical writing, often of a high scholarly standing, reached all levels of society, regardless of class, gender or literacy. The volume of history (and many other genres) disseminated in this way places the weekly local newspaper at the centre of 19​ th​ ­century writing and publishing. The paper engages with the conference theme in two ways. First, history is part of the language of journalism as a discursive field (Zelizer and Tenenboim­Weinblatt, eds), seen in historical context, chronologies and commemorations, for example. These and other journalistic discourses gain added power when allied to local identities, for which memory and continuity are central. Place, and sense of place, deserve more attention in book 1 history. Second, the centrality of newspapers and magazines in 19​ th​ ­century publishing once again highlights the difficulties of the term 'history of the book'. The bulk of 19​ th​ ­century publishing ­­ in terms of material objects produced, volume of material of almost any genre published, numbers of writers and numbers of readers ­­ is in fact the publishing of newspapers and magazines, with books in distant third place. But the language of 'book history' misleads us and distorts our scholarship.

In writings about the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, most common representations of the press of the wartime period are limited almost exclusively to the Jakarta newspaper Asia Raya and the biweekly illustrated magazine Djawa Baroe. In their famous role as propaganda publications for the Japanese, these wartime periodicals are painted in stark contrast to the prewar periodicals whose characteristics we assume we understand. This article briefly questions the received images, examining two wartime periodicals.
The Japanese arrival was like a bolt of lightning to many, but continuities between the prewar and wartime periods were present, both in the use of propaganda and in suppression of a free press. A framework of “intensification of journalism” might be a useful way to understand the developments in the wartime period. In this framework, we can easily understand the reduced numbers of periodicals and thus a limited core number of journalists, and an increased circulation and influence of those periodicals in society. Among the other changes during the war was possibly a changed vision of appropriate journalism—actually closer to European norms than before the war. This was accompanied by a “return” to a more European, global standard of journalistic professionalism than was possible or desirable before the war. At least on Java, despite the trials and tribulations of journalists, it's clear that the wartime period produced a Djiwa Baroe, a New Spirit in the publishing world.

From the days of the country’s beginnings where resistance to England brought together the founding fathers, to the present day two-party system of Republican versus Democrats, the United States of America was a country founded on political opposition.  Politics have always been a passionate endeavor of the American culture. Propaganda of political views has been able to seep into the American psyche since the creation of the penny press. The penny press newspapers that were invented during the antebellum years, made news and information readily available to people of all classes. They created new ploys to appeal to the masses and engage their desire to be political involved in the Republic. The newspapers became politically affiliated and soon their information began to disclose party’s political views as well as attacking opposing parties’ beliefs. During the antebellum years, a regional location could determine the views of its papers due to a political parties pro- or anti- slavery beliefs. Democrats were typically associated with the South and were pro-slavery, while Republicans were found in the North and were anti-slavery. Although these parties were not completely regionalized, this was a common trend that could be seen in many cases throughout the later stages of the antebellum period. By examining two different newspapers, one from the North and one from the South, the contrasting views of political parties based on region can be observed as well as the typical day-to-day use of newspapers during the antebellum period regardless of location.

The shutdown of two of the oldest Canadian newspapers on the last Friday of January, 2016, was accompanied by mystical coincidences. Not only were the newspapers closed on the same day, but they also illustrated their last front pages in the same way – with a mysterious number “30”.

Tesis de la maestría en
Ciencias de la comunicación
墨西哥报纸如何报道中国--《劳动报(la jornada)》个案分析(2007全年)
Nombre del autor: Jossalberto Briceño Sáenz
Número de pasaporte: 06110054608
Número de matrícula: 052013082
Nombre de la Universidad: FUDAN
Clave de la universidad: 10246
Clave de la carrera: 050302
Titulo: Máster

Notas: El número de matrícula 052013082 se encuentra en el empastado de la tesis y concuerda con el mismo número del titulo y de la boleta de calificaciones. No es de menos el recordar y hacer mención de que China es un sistema comunista que está en contra de los derechos individuales. Por mandato de los directivos de la universidad se obliga el que los estudiantes escriban solamente su nombre en chino y no escriban su nombre real. Apesar de que yo pedí que se escribiera mi nombre tal cual estaba escrito en mi pasaporte me fue negado y por ello utilizé la forma de poner mi nombre con una pequeña frase dentro de las memorias de mi tesis. Mi nombre aparece en la página 57, que es la primera página de mis memorias. Por favor de ver la página 57 de la tesis para identificarme como el autor de esta tesis.

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Año de publicación: 11 de abril de 2009

Nombre en Chino de la tesis: 墨西哥报纸如何报道中国--《劳动报(la jornada)》个案分析(2007全年)
Nombre en español de la tesis: Lo que se publica sobre China en el diario mexicano La Jornada, Un análicis del año 2007
Abstract en español:
La sociedad moderna es una época de la explosión de la información, aparecen cada vez más medios de comunicación y el ritmo de vida de las personas se acelera cada vez más.

El estilo de vida actual y la situación de los medios crea el problema de distinguir que información es verdadera o y cual es falsa. Como consecuencia la gente no cree completamente en los medios electrónicos y por ello sigue consumiendo la prensa escrita.
 
En los últimos años la influencia de China en el mercado internacional está creciendo y muchos países están dedicando un mayor espacio de noticias a lo que suceden en China.
Mediante el análisis de un año de lo publicado por un periódico mexicano se busca analizar las noticias sobre China que México publica.

 Se busca conocer la imagen de China que se presenta en México y así conocer cual es la tendencia; si es positiva o negativa. Con tal estudio se conocera la idea general que tiene México de China. Las noticias tienen un gran poder de influencia en una sociedad. Es primordial mantener la verdad y autenticidad en los informes noticiosos para no distorcional la vición de un individuo sobre una cultura o país. El profesionalismo de un reportero debe tener la caracteristica fudamental de comunicar la verdad y no dejar que sus intereses personales e ideas culturales interfieran con ello.

Small-market newspapers constitute the majority of newspapers in the United States. What is it like to work at these publications? And what do journalists themselves identify as the fundamental challenges and opportunities for this sector?

We set out to answer these questions by asking local journalists at daily and weekly newspapers with circulations under 50,000 to tell us directly about their working lives. Of the 7,071 newspapers regularly published in the United States (daily and weekly), 6,851 have circulations smaller than this number.

However, their experience is typically underrepresented in wider industry conversations. Our research seeks to redress that by providing a platform for discussion about the smaller market experience.

Too often we tend to hear one single narrative about the state of newspapers in the United States. The newspaper industry is not one sector. While there are considerable variances between the myriad of outlets—whether national titles, major metros, dailies in large towns, alt weeklies, publications in rural communities, ethnic press, and so on—a major challenge for anyone trying to make sense of industry data is its aggregated nature. It’s nearly impossible to deduce trends or characteristics at a more granular level. The story of local newspapers with circulations below 50,000, or what we call “small-market newspapers,” tends to get overlooked due to the narrative dominance of larger players. However, small-market publications represent a major cohort that we as a community of researchers know very little about, and a community of practitioners that too often—we were told—knows little about itself. Our study seeks to help redress this recent imbalance. We embarked on our research with a relatively simple yet ambitious research question: How are small-market newspapers responding to digital disruption? From the data collected in our research, we also strove to report on the future of small-market newspapers by asking: How can small-market newspapers best prepare for the future? Our research findings are based on interviews with fifty-three experts from across the publishing industry, academia, and foundations with a strong interest in the local news landscape. So as to make a fair assessment of the topic’s placement against a wider news background, we did not limit ourselves just to those with immediate connection to small-market newspapers. From these conversations and our own analysis, seven key themes emerged.

Стаття присвячена з’ясуванню ролі і місця політичної карикатури у формуванні інформаційного простору на території Чернігівської області в роки Другої світової війни. Аналіз візуальних образів розміщених на сторінках окупаційної преси сприяє розкриттю концепції ідеологічних маніпуляцій нацистського режиму, дозволяє оцінити їхній вплив на процес формування архетипів сприйняття як на населення окупованої України, так і на сучасників.

Horokh M. V. The political caricature on the pages of the occupational press: Chernihivs’ka oblast’ (1941–1943)
The article is devoted to the clarification of the political caricature’s role and position in the forming of the informational space on the Chernihivs’ka oblast’ territory during World War II. The analysis of the visual images on the pages of the occupational press helps to reveal the concept of ideological manipulations of the Nazi regime. It also helps to evaluate their influence on the forming of the perception archetypes of both people of occupied Ukraine and people who live nowadays.

Too often we tend to hear one single narrative about the state of newspapers in the United States. The newspaper industry is not one sector. While there are considerable variances between the myriad of outlets—whether national titles, major metros, dailies in large towns, alt weeklies, publications in rural communities, ethnic press, and so on—a major challenge for anyone trying to make sense of industry data is its aggregated nature. It’s nearly impossible to deduce trends or characteristics at a more granular level. The story of local newspapers with circulations below 50,000, or what we call “small-market newspapers,” tends to get overlooked due to the narrative dominance of larger players. However, small-market publications represent a major cohort that we as a community of researchers know very little about, and a community of practitioners that too often—we were told—knows little about itself. Our study seeks to help redress this recent imbalance. We embarked on our research w...

This dissertation is a quantitative study with elements of qualitative analysis. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate WHAT was written about Ukraine's independence 1917 in Swedish press 1917–1918. The qualitative part of the survey was intended to answer the question if the newspaper's political attitude influenced the news reports during the chosen period. The exact periodization was determined to be between March 1, 1917 and June 30, 1918. This periodization was chosen because of the March Revolution in 1917, which triggered independence declarations in a number of countries oppressed by Moscow, who now saw their chance of freedom. June 1918 became the end of the investigation because it was just when the peace agreement between Ukraine and the Soviet Union was signed.

The source material has been chosen to represent a multitude of ideological orientations. It was liberal, moderate, conservative, liberal and left-wing orientations. The source material consisted of newspaper articles from the following newspapers: Dagens Nyheter, Aftonbladet, Göteborgs Aftonblad, Svenska Dagbladet, Dalpilen, Kalmar Tidning and Norrskensflamman. Quantitative methodology was used on the source material. This method consisted of a reviewing of newspaper articles in searching of news reports from Ukraine or articles which had something to do with the events in Ukraine. Every newspaper was searched day after day. The crawled material was presented in two chapters representing different periods. The first chapter of the results presented the results from 1917, and more precisely from March to December 1917. The second chapter presented the results from 1918, but also from December 1917, that is, the result from December 1917 through June 1918. The whole result was then discussed in a separate chapter where the qualitative analysis was also discussed.

The result of the quantitative analysis showed that it has been written relatively sparcely about Ukraine's independence although the volume of articles increased from December 1917 and even more in 1918. Sometimes there were articles on the first page. But for the most part, the articles with Ukraine issues were placed among other foreign articles. It was also found in the survey that it was the first World War that drew attention to the newspapers, even though the events in Petrograd and then in Ukraine took more space. This survey also showed that what was written about Ukraine's independence was also what appears in the reference literature. The news reports reported how Ukraine proclaimed independence in March 1917 and later on proclaimed an independent republic in November 1917 when the Bolsheviks conducted their coup d'état in Petrograd. The newspapers also wrote how the Russian Communists sent a declaration of war to Ukraine in December 1917 and about the war that followed. The articles also tell us how negotiations on Ukraine Peace went on in Brest-Litovsk, and how they ended up with alliance between Germany and Ukraine with the campaign against the communists. It was told how the German army marched into Ukraine to free it from the bolsheviks. Until May 1918 there were battles between the German-Ukrainian Army and the Communists. In June 1918 the peace agreement was signed and this survey’s investigation ended.

The survey showed that it was written about Ukraine's independence in all newspapers. Dagens Nyheter had the most news articles linked to the survey. Although the number of articles was not subject for analysis in this survey. The qualitative analysis was based on using Höjelid's theoretical concepts "positive sound" and "negative sound" on the quantitative analysis material. The qualitative analysis’ result showed that it was almost impossible to see the differences between the newspapers because the articles were traded between the newspapers, i.e. the content was copied straight away. It should be noted that not all content was the subject of copying between the newspapers. Copying occurred to a greater extent, but there were still original articles derived from the respective newspaper. Most of the articles were also direct telegrams that were communicated abroad to the newspaper's editors. A lot of these telegrammic articles were sent with a purpose to mislead society. These angled articles were published without further examination in Swedish press. There were articles from, for example, Dagens Nyheter whose editors noted the "strange Petrograd reports" and informed about it for the purpose of enlightening the public. However, as most newspapers were occupied with World War I, as was shown in the source material, the newspaper editorial office was less interested in other foreign events. Therefore, such angled articles could be found in Swedish press on a larger scale.

Science communication, once the exclusive preserve of a scientific elite, has not been immune to the growing influence of mass media over society. As mass media becomes the most prominent site of public deliberation over science, multiple voices—both expert and non-expert—have begun to emerge, rewriting the social contract of science.

In the new millennium, the Indian state of Kerala saw a number of scientific controversies being discussed in the regional newspapers. Set against the backdrop of three major public controversies, Contested Knowledge explores how these mediated disputes brought the otherwise hidden dynamics of scientific knowledge production into full public view. The book contends that this new mode of public engagement with science radically differs from its earlier form nurtured by the Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad, the largest people’s science movement in India. It explores critical questions about ‘medialized science’ such as: What is a scientific-citizenry? How did a ‘scientific public sphere’ develop in Kerala? How does public contestation of knowledge contribute to deliberative democracy by re-instilling politics into science? Are there limits to such a democratization of science?

A fascinating commentary on the relation between science and society, this volume is a pioneering work that examines the science–media–public interaction in a non-Western context.


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This article provides a rare account of local media development in post-perestroika Russia by examining Tolon (Ray of Light), an "all-Buriat" newspaper founded in 1989 to serve as an independent media outlet for Buriat readers. Since the heyday of Buriat nationalism in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Tolon has been published in the Aga region with the goals of unifying Buriats throughout their fragmented Russian territories and Mongolia and encouraging national self-awareness. As one of very few native-language publications not directly published by the state, it allows close examination of the social missions and roles of independent local media in contemporary Russia. To the extent that the paper has survived for 26 years, it is also an uncommon example of an overtly minority-nationalist initiative allowed to function within an increasingly Russian-nationalist state. Key to Tolon's success is its home in Aginskoe, a small, if culturally significant, town far from mainstream politics. By naturalizing Buriat identity and locating it within the realm of the spiritual, the newspaper pursues ethnolinguistic reunification in this out-of-the-way place without invoking the political conflict of irredentism. Tolon thus illuminates some of the more covert ways local media may support ethnonational coalescence on the margins of the state.

Too often we tend to hear one single narrative about the state of newspapers in the United States. The newspaper industry is not one sector. While there are considerable variances between the myriad of outlets — whether national titles, major metros, dailies in large towns, alt weeklies, publications in rural communities, ethnic press, and so on — a major challenge for anyone trying to make sense of industry data is its aggregated nature. It’s nearly impossible to deduce trends or characteristics at a more granular level. The story of local newspapers with circulations below 50,000, or what we call “small-market newspapers,” tends to get overlooked due to the narrative dominance of larger players. However, small-market publications represent a major cohort that we as a community of researchers know very little about, and a community of practitioners that too often — we were told — knows little about itself. Our study seeks to help redress this recent imbalance. We embarked on our re...

The three New South Wales market towns of Campbelltown, Camden and Picton made up the Macarthur region where several local town-based newspapers emerged in the 1880s. Local newspapers used local history to enable their readers to reflect on their past by storytelling and creating an understanding of their cultural heritage. The local press lionised the historical legacy of John Macarthur and contributed to the construction of a regional identity bearing his name through the creation of regional newspaper mastheads. The key actors in this narrative were newspaper owner-editors, their mastheads and the historical figure of Macarthur. This article uses a qualitative approach to chart the growth and changes of newspaper mastheads, their owner-editors and Macarthur mythmaking and regionalism.

Britain’s wartime reconstruction plans are considered rightly to be a key milestone in the development of British planning. While some have received a good deal of academic attention others, such as Manchester’s 1945 Plan have been largely overlooked despite receiving high praise at the time as a ‘stupendous feat’. The research here is informed by Henri Lefebvre’s theories regarding the nature of urban space in which a historical perspective is seen as paramount for understanding issues of urban planning and redevelopment.  Archival sources form the principal basis for the empirical research. The paper argues for the importance of placing the Plan in the context of the 20th century modernist planning discourse. A comprehensive, rigorous analysis of the Plan’s production, reception and implementation is presented. The implications for the city generally and the Castlefield area are explored in detail. Through critical investigation the Plan is revealed to have been constituted in part by an influential collection of visual and textual representations of city space. These representations left complex and at times surprising positive and negative legacies. The Plan is seen to have stimulated a notable physical reconfiguration and inhibited the shift to a post industrial reimagining of the city.

On 20 February 2014, Medway Council in Kent became the first local authority in the UK to formally establish a bloggers’ bench. It offered citizen journalists the fillip of official recognition and equality of access to full council meetings alongside the professional local media. It was also a precursor to the Local Audit and Accountability Act (2014), the government’s tool for opening regional democracy to a ‘new wave of local scrutiny’ by bloggers and other ‘armchair auditors’. This preliminary study examines how effectively – and willingly – these bloggers executed the fourth estate role that was expected of them through a content analysis of the first three months of their council coverage.

Keywords: Twitter, citizen journalism, democracy, regional newspapers, blogging

Afin de comprendre les mutations importantes vécues par la presse romande d'aujourd'hui, Alain Clavien, Professeur d'histoire à l'Université de Fribourg, dénoue le fil des changements intervenus dans les processus éditoriaux et rédactionnels. Cet ouvrage apporte un éclairage sur l'évolution des journaux romands depuis leurs débuts, au XVIIIe siècle, jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Ces deux siècles d'histoire de la presse mettent à jour les transformations des contenus rédactionnels et du métier de journaliste mais surtout les logiques de marché à l'oeuvre ayant conduit pour une part importante, à la situation actuelle. Si l'échelle choisie est locale, les phénomènes décortiqués sont globaux, les systématiques éditoriales étant semblables d'un pays à l'autre.

One top agenda of union government is to increase India’s share in world tourist arrivals from the present 0.68% to 1% by 2020 and further increase it to 2% by 2025. Therefore, Visa Online (or called e-Tourist Visa) with Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) Policy launched by the Govt. of India on November 27, 2014 initially for 43 countries and this list is keep on increasing with every foreign tour of our PM. The official figure has suggested that there is 2.4% growth of foreign tourist arrivals between January to April, 2015 as compared to last year. But the major boom lies in inbound tourist numbers which registered a rise up to 1086.3% on-year in January to April 2015 just because of e-Tourist Visa. And total 94,998 tourists arrived on e-Tourist Visa, as compared with 8,008 under the earlier TVoA Scheme last year.

In 2016, both Republicans and Democratic Party supporters accused each other of receiving favorable press coverage.  We examine stories in a series of newspapers from geographic diverse regions, as well as diversity in endorsements, for negative and neutral stories.  We found evidence of a bad news bias, more news coverage for Donald Trump (equal to that of all other candidates combined), but also more negative press for Trump than positive, though Clinton herself had more negative than positive stories as well.

Military Camp newspapers from this period are few and far between, reflecting the movement of troops, the availability of soldiers skilled as newspapermen, and the proximity of a usable press. These papers document the continuing flux of the military during the war, the development of western Virginia as it strives for independence from Virginia and the need to support and bolster the morale of their troops. Few copies survive and those that do are extremely valuable for their reports of daily life, the publication of popular songs and humorous sketches, and reports on battles, politics and troop movements.

Under the title "Wrong Place, Wrong Time", was the story of a woman in Australia, identified by name, whose long hair was "caught in a belt-driven motor" as she was "tramping down wool".  "Horrifically, the motor ripped her scalp off from the back of her head to above her eyes and ears".  I should say that the editor of "City" sent me a thoughtful email, once I sent my letter to the "City" paper a second time, explaining that the oversight on their end was indeed unacceptable -they had simply picked up a syndicated column and had gone ahead and published it.

Portale di ricerca sui periodici piemontesi da metà 800 a oggi, realizzato dalla Regione Piemonte e dal Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte, in collaborazione con CSI Piemonte.
(on line da aprile 2016)

Co-autori del progetto:
Domenico Tomatis, Eugenio Pintore, Riccarda Cristofanini, Patrizia Rossi