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ABSTRACT – The poor performance of the Mexican press is a frequent concern in the literature. However, this focus is on the capital, Mexico City. Thus, we comparatively measure performance between regions and physical and digital media, based on criteria of bias and mediated deliberation. We analyzed 281 news articles from 117 newspapers in 28 states about the 2021 federal elections. We found that performance is better in robust markets and worse in smaller ones, and it is more homogeneous in print media than in digital media. The latter seems to be independent of market factors, which could indicate clientelist relationships linked to the economic vulnerability of smaller markets. RESUMO – A preocupação com o desempenho deficiente da imprensa mexicana é um tema recorrente na literatura, mas tem se concentrado principalmente nos veículos impressos da Cidade do México. Assim, medimos comparativamente o desempenho entre regiões e suportes físicos e digitais, com base em critérios de viés e mediação deliberada. Analisamos 281 notícias de 117 jornais em 28 estados sobre as eleições federais de 2021. Descobrimos que o desempenho é melhor nos mercados robustos e pior nos pequenos, sendo mais homogêneo na imprensa impressa do que na digital. Esta última parece ser independente de fatores de mercado, o que poderia indicar relações clientelistas ligadas à vulnerabilidade econômica dos mercados pequenos. RESUMEN – La preocupación por el deficiente desempeño de la prensa en México ha sido un tema recurrente en la literatura, pero se ha centrado principalmente en los medios impresos de la Ciudad de México. Así, este estudio presenta un análisis comparativo del desempeño de los medios impresos y digitales, en diversas regiones y formatos, considerando sesgo partidista y deliberación mediada. Se examinaron 281 noticias de las elecciones federales de 2021 de 117 periódicos en 28 estados. Los resultados indican un mejor desempeño en mercados más grandes y una calidad de información más homogénea en medios impresos que digitales. Se sugiere la posibilidad de relaciones clientelares en medios digitales de mercados más pequeños, con una mayor vulnerabilidad económica.

This study identifies the recurrent repertoires of covert prejudice in the regional press of three Greek islands (Lesvos, Chios, Samos) during the refugee crisis. Between 2015 and 2016, these islands were the first-line receiving communities for the many refugees and migrants who arrived in Europe through the Eastern Mediterranean route. This article applies a synthetic qualitative approach to discourse analysis, emphasizing the argumentation and narrative complexity of prejudiced discourse as articulated through the idiosyncratic prism of locality. By focusing our analysis on expressions of neo-racism, symbolic and aversive racism, our study identified five interpretative repertoires of prejudicial discourse: “superfluous bodies,” “threats of multiculturalism,” “agents of misery,” “bogus refugees,” and “capitalizing on the refugee crisis.”

The research featured the development of citizen journalism in Siberia in the early 1920s when the debates around societal challenges spilled onto the pages of periodicals. By focusing on the early New Economic Policy (NEP) narrative in the regional and local media, the author describes the difference between amateur and professional journalism. The campaign to promote the mass media and NEP was contingent on community debate, which addressed people’s worldview. In some cases, editors and citizen journalists used these topics to highlight the efforts of the local authorities and the effectiveness of media narratives. The narratives of the Soviet mass media and the early NEP made it possible to engage Siberians in public activities and develop a better understanding of working processes at the grassroots of the early Soviet society. The research was based on an interdisciplinary approach, which encompassed the history of everyday life and the relevant issues of journalism.

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Background. Today, there is a difficult economic situation due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is accompanied by a number of negative social consequences: a decline in the standard of population’s living standart, an unemployment’s increase. Therefore, the experience of the new economic policy on finding ways to solve the problem of employment is still relevant. It is important not only to highlight the main methods of combating unemployment in the years of the NEP, but also to show the specifics characteristic of individual regions. The purpose of the work is a comprehensive analysis of this process based on the publications of the regional periodicals. Materials and methods. The source base of the research is the materials of the Penza newspaper “Trudovaya Pravda” for the period 1921– 1925. Formal-logical and comparative-historical methods are used. Results. Publications dealing with the problems of unemployment in the Penza region are investigated. The analysis of the main activities of local regional economic, state and trade union organizations to solve the problem of employment in the early 1920s is carried out. Special attention is paid to the social and professional composition of the unemployed, the activities of the labor exchange, and the work of groups of the unemployed. Conclusions. According to the analysis, it can be noted that the problems of unemployment received a lot of attention in the materials of the newspaper “Trudovaya Pravda”. Statistics on the number of unemployed were regularly published, the work of the labor exchange and the activities of trade unions in providing social and labor assistance were highlighted. There are no analytical articles and very rarely any information was accompanied by the author’s comment. But it is important to note the value of the factual material contained in the newspaper for the study of regional problems of unemployment.

In 1976 David Murphy wrote his critique of the role of the UK regional press in local politics—The Silent Watchdog: The Press in Local Politics. Through the next two decades, local 'papers of record' attempted to report on the activities and decisions of their local councils regularly and diligently but the decline of the regional press in the twenty-first century has rendered Murphy's critique obsolete. This article will look at what was expected of local journalism in the 1970s. It will show what was delivered until the twenty-first century and then look at how local press coverage of local government has declined, raising the scenario of a 'local democratic deficit'1 whereby local politics in some communities receives little direct coverage, creating a danger of a disconnect between local government and local communities caused by the abandonment of its former role by the regional press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of the article is showing figures of professors presented in „Kultura i Biznes”. The publication is divided in two parts. The first one is characteristic the title magazine and shows its history. The second one discusses species variations of figures – notes, articles and interviews showing living and dead lodz professors (independent academic staff, academic teachers, deans, vice-rectors, rectors) or coming from other part of Poland, having professional connections with Lodz, which achievements brought a significant contribution to the development of science and contributed to the development of higher education in Poland and abroad.

The subject of this article is the specifics of feeding the information which is topical for the whole society in regional newspapers; in particular it’s asymmetry towards the data of the central press. The authors carry out a comparative analysis of the content of media representations of the political event (Navalny’s march) in the federal and Khabarovsk print media, which made it possible to reveal a number of formal and substantial differences in the media image of the event, to fix new media phenomena. The theme of media representation is relevant for the theory and practice of journalism, and the transformation in the world and national information space (information warfare, loss of the presumption of information and truth by the world journalism) make this topic even more significant. The research methodology refers to a discursive approach, the authors attempt to analyze the headline complex of journalistic materials, identify the main semantic units of texts, and fix some speech techniques for creating a media image. The novelty of the work lies in the following provisions. The authors go beyond the media-centered approach and in the conclusion analyze the situation of mastering the text by the readership, highlighting two types of audiences according to the criterion of “information literacy”. As an explanatory principle, the authors’ notion of “a zero signs” is introduced to explain the preterition of the media with respect to certain facts. On this basis it is possible to classify different types of information consumers in the future. The empirical study makes it possible to record differences in the coverage of the event by federal and Khabarovsk print media, and also to reveal interesting phenomena of media representation, in particular, “smoothing out”, “suppression”, etc., which have a high level of heuristics. The study deserves attention, gives an increment of new information and raises problematic questions of theoretical and methodological plan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Leveson Inquiry was established to specifically examine the press and not the media in general. UK Prime Minister David Cameron set it up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid. It looked at the ethics of the press, its culture and practice. The public and judge-led enquiry generated massive media attention inside the United Kingdom and beyond on whether the government should introduce new press regulations or whether the press should regulate itself. Most of the media coverage focused on national press, with regional press getting the least attention. Anthony Longden writes about the enquiry's impact on local press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Early in 2013 John Mair's swiftly produced edited collection of articles about the impact of the then-recent Leveson Report included two chapters on the regional press. My chapter offered statistical evidence to show that the regional press was the sector with the best track record in terms of complaints to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). The chapter controversially predicted that any proposed regulation would have no impact on that sector. It hoped that Lord Justice Leveson's highlighting of the problems of the regional press and plea for recognition of its vital community role might prompt positive parliamentary activity. Four years later regulation has had no impact on the regionals, but the bigger issue of the basic viability of the sector remains unresolved. So how healthy is the UK regional press now? Is digital journalism a killer or a saviour? And how long can the regionals survive? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines why strategy innovation is rare in the regional news industry. It integrates the knowledge-based view of a firm, path-dependence theoretical perspective and the field of business model studies to interpret the historic emergence, formation, and current lock-in of legacy regional newspapers. The historic case of the provincial press in England is analysed to consider how, in an industrial context of relative simplicity and certainty, path-dependent formation processes are led by knowledge integration mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article follows the case of Colonel Crawley from his role in a bungled Indian court martial in 1862 to his own trial in England the next year. The death of a soldier and his wife during the original court case was the key to transforming the events in an obscure Indian cantonment into a British sensation. A close examination of the regional and imperial networks that were essential to relaying the dead couple's story shows how members of press collaborated with interested parties to craft a popular, fiction-infused narrative of the case calculated to raise public anger against Crawley. Yet, at the resulting trial, the Colonel's defence team were able to check this attack with the creation of their own theatrical narrative lifted from imperial dramas. This article will argue that the power of a self-confident and expanding Victorian British press to redress social ills was limited by their reliance on simplified melodramatic narratives that were prone to backlash. In the case of legal proceedings, like those against Colonel Crawley, cases were framed to reflect popular grievances rather than the strongest legal case. Moreover, as the backlash at the trial reflected the temporary triumph of an alternative melodramatic narrative, the audience and reader responses must be understood as likewise scripted. Consequently, analysis of the Crawley scandal shows the imperative need to evaluate the development and ‘outcome’ of Victoriancause célèbrein light of the fictional and theatrical conventions of the period. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A region's cultural environment--how people communicate and how local media represent the immediate social and natural environment--is indicative of local dominant normative values that underpin potential capacities for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This article explores this premise with a comparison of two regions in Australia: Northern Rivers (New South Wales) and Ipswich-Lockyer (Queensland), and draws attention to readers' letters published in two daily newspapers, The Queensland Times (Ipswich) and The Northern Star (Lismore), with a specific focus on the Clean Energy Legislative Package. Leximancer software is used to analyse the content of readers' letters published over a nine-month period coinciding with the passage of the legislation through the Australian parliament. The results indicate important differences in local discourses and suggest a focus on local socio-cultural landscapes and their capacities for community dialogue are potentially useful for understanding how communities talk about, and the extent to which they will accept climate change policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reporting death has always been a controversial and sensitive subject for both the bereaved and journalists, but after revelations from the Leveson Inquiry of poor ethical behaviour towards the bereaved this form of reporting is likely to come under greater scrutiny. Research indicates journalists would welcome further guidance, particularly in relation to using social media. The bereaved also would appreciate a more equitable relationship with the media. Through interviews with journalists and bereavement groups, this paper explores their views on the effect the Leveson Inquiry might have on reporting bereaved people, lessons that can be learned, and on any measures which could be adopted in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prostitution is not a subject that regional newspapers like to dwell on - apart from in the 'Personal Services' classified ads columns. This paper examines some of the brazen examples of semi-display ads promoting indecent premium phone lines and the small text advertisements to be found in a random sample of regional daily, Sunday and weekly newspapers sold in London, the North-West and the Midlands. Responses from the Home Office, the Human Exploitation and Organised Crime Unit of the Metropolitan Police and the Newspaper Society are examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By far, most of the research into processes of discrimination and ethnification in Sweden considers urban settings. This article focuses on how the regional press in a rural area of south east Sweden represents immigrants in a residential area in the outskirts of the Kalmar township. It points at the urgent need for researchers and decision makers to take into account both subtle and palpable stigmatizing processes that meet immigrants who reside the countryside. An analysis of two local newspapers shows a continuous construction of 'otherness' through pictures and texts, in which the identities of minority ethnic groups are stereotyped and subverted. One of the most persistent themes in this work of representation is the brutalization of the masculinity of 'others', stressed even further by a 'traditionalization' and feminization of a weak, caring female other. Both these gendered images serve a higher purpose, that of maintaining a positive image of a taken for granted Swedishness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regional newspapers in Spain have experienced a period of stability and prosperity over the last two decades. But across the last five years, increasing media competition and declining circulation figures have diminished Spain's regional newspaper industry bonanza and the sector is now actively implementing new strategies. This paper analyses the implementation of multimedia and convergence strategies at the two larger Spanish regional media groups: Vocento and Prensa Iberica. Using a case study methodology, the authors provide a perspective on how these regional newspapers have turned into multimedia groups and consider the main difficulties they have encountered along the way and they are still facing. Most Spanish regional newspapers are becoming multimedia groups, which integrate print, radio, television and online platforms. Newspaper publishers have developed strategies that include: the empowering of multimedia newsrooms that provide stories regardless of media platform or distribution method; aggressive cross-promotion; equalizing perceptions of status between newspaper, audiovisual and online workers; utilizing the online service for breaking news that occurs off-publication cycle and encouraging print-side staff members to generate content for exclusive use online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]