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The first reported case of transmission of the Ebola virus in Europe occurred in Spain. The subsequent management of communication surrounding the 'outbreak' brought about a crisis with implications for both health authorities and the media. This paper explores the management of institutional communication by the Ministry of Health, within the first forty-eight hours leading up to the diagnosis, as well as the Spanish press' coverage of the "crisis of Ebola". Focus will be placed on the analysis of the front pages of 6 Spanish newspapers (with the largest national circulation) as well as 17 regional newspapers, and their possible sensationalist impact within those first forty-eight hours (October 7th and 8th, 2014). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a part of the research study regarding the process of constructing representations within the national and international press about the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia -- People's Army (FARC -- EP) throughout a period from its inception as a guerrilla group in 1964, to its consolidation as an army which set the Colombian State on edge in 1996. This paper is exclusively focused on the months of May to June 1984, the first month of the ''ceasefire'' agreed with the government of President Belisario Betancur (1982 -1986). The ambivalence of representations is discussed herein, as well as how the image of a narco-guerrilla gradually takes shape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mass media have a strong impact on International Relations. Foreign Correspondents are the key pieces of international information. This paper presents the model of peace journalism as a tool to analyze the frames that journalists give in covering a conflict. The case of study is the coverage made by correspondents in the Spanish press to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict in 2007 -2008. The results show that all journalists analyzed were prone to a peace journalism frame. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is part of a current research that seeks to determine the professional culture of the Spanish political journalism. In this text we approach the study of the work organization and professional routines present into the process of news production in the spanish quality press. Based on the in-depth interviews to the heads of political section of newspapers El País, El Mundo and Abc, we present an analytical description of the major trends that characterize the organization, internal operation and the decision making process. The knowledge of journalists' job allows us to understand the ways in which the press builds the policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the phraseology adopted by women's magazines in Argentina during the early 1990s, based on two cases that embody different approaches: a traditional one (Para Ti) and a more feminist-oriented approach (Women & Company). The analysis focuses on styles and personal pronouns to track the ways in which the relationship between the speaker and listener is constructed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Media criticism is an essential activity for any democracy. Named as the fourth power, media generally are against criticisms made to their practices and products and almost never make any self-criticisms. Facing this fact the present paper arguments in favour of media criticism in order to improve their practice, and thus the reason why the manuscript ends showing a Brazilian experience on media observatories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]