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Journalism has long been presumed to serve as a check on the powerful, shedding light on wrongdoing; however, as local newspapers reach market failure, extant theory predicts corruption will go unchecked. We operationalize corruption as federal prosecutions for public corruption (PPCs), defined by the US Department of Justice as crimes involving the abuse of public trust by federal, state, and local public officials. We examine changes in the local news media ecosystems: first, whether declines in local newspaper employment and circulation are associated with changes in PPCs; and second, whether efforts to supplement watchdog journalism with nonprofit journalism might mitigate associated declines in federal PPC. Our findings suggest nonprofit interventions in failing local commercial news markets may be an important safeguard for keeping public officials accountable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay unravels the 'language choice' through another parameter—specifically, that which concerns journalistic language in the presentation of news. It observes in the pages of London's The Times—the newspaper with the larger circulation in Britain—the different ways in which their correspondents on the ground presented the Thessaly uprising of January 1878, one of revolts that occurred in various parts of Ottoman-ruled Balkans during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Two different perspectives found a place in the same newspaper, one by the newspaper's Constantinople correspondent and editor of The Levant Herald, Edgar Whitaker, and the other by its special correspondent in Greece, Charles Ogle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

News reporting is a vital cog in the news industry. People always show a great interest in reading and listening to Crime News. Investigation plays an important role in Crime News. As readers and viewers of Crime News, one has to know the difference between Crime News Reporting and Investigative News Reporting. No one can deny the roles of these reporting in the enhanced circulation of newspapers/magazines and viewership in visual media. There are many different kinds of crime news, including fraud, blackmail, kidnapping, rape, murders, blazes, accidents, robberies, and burglaries. To purge the element of criminal behaviour from society, reporting crimes helps in pursuing justice, and social reform. In a significant way, it benefits the community by serving as a vigilant watchdog and alerting individuals about potential crimes and criminal activities. This paper enumerates and analyses the roles of reporters involved in reporting these. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines private Palestinian Arabic periodicals established during the Second Ottoman Constitutional Era, shedding light on the shifts and transformations within the press market during this dynamic period. Its aim is to piece together the circulation and distribution patterns of these publications. The research explores various facets, such as subscriber statistics, the geographical distribution of readership, and the pricing strategies. Following the Young Turk Revolution, there was a great expansion in journalistic endeavours, resulting in the establishment of numerous periodicals based in the three urban centres of Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa. However, the ensuing years witnessed a gradual consolidation, so that by the outbreak of World War I, only a fraction of the Arabic periodicals founded earlier continued operations. These publications followed diverse trajectories: some folded quickly owing to the fierce competition and the multitude of challenges plaguing journalistic activities, while others experienced a gradual decline but managed to sustain operations for an extended period. By contrast, the most successful among them strengthened their position by attracting prominent advertisers, actively engaging with the crucial issues of the era, introducing innovative practices, and consistently expanding their readership base, ultimately reaching their peak at the outbreak of WWI.

During the First World War, the relations between the Ottoman Empire and the United States were among the most discussed topics in the American press. Although the armies of the two states did not directly fight with each other on the fronts, and the Ottoman Empire did not threaten the interests of the US, many opinions advocating declaring war on the Turks appeared on the pages of the newspapers. Anti-Turkish propaganda activities and debates on declaring war on the Ottoman Empire were constantly addressed in influential newspapers of the time such as The Sun, The Evening Star, The New York Tribune, The New York Times, The Washington Herald, The Washington Times. In addition, newspapers with low circulation and published in small settlements such as The Norwich Bulletin, The Fargo Forum, The Chattanooga News also covered negative news about the Turks. These newspapers generally summarized or sometimes published the entire news from major newspapers. The significance of these newspapers for our subject is not whether they produced original news, but rather their dissemination of anti-Turkish propaganda to remote areas of America. In this study, the issue of declaring war on the Ottoman Empire will be examined based on the press to understand why it occupied the agenda of the US for years. Additionally, the attitudes of the missionaries and the Armenian lobby in these debates, and how they tried to influence public opinion, will be evaluated. In addition, the efforts of missionaries to influence US foreign policy will be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research analyses the artificial intelligence application strategies adopted by the Spanish press media at the height of the generative AI boom, extending previous studies on integrating AI technology into journalistic routines. We studied the dynamics of implementation of AI solutions in the main newspapers in Spain, determining the departments or professionals involved, the current uses, and how AI affects their organization chart and professional profiles, as well as providing insights into the future trends of this technology in the sector. For this purpose, a qualitative methodology was employed, based on interviews with a purposive sample of executives from the 10 newspapers with the largest circulation in Spain: El País, La Vanguardia, Marca, La Voz de Galicia, As, ABC, El Mundo, El Correo, El Diario Vasco and Mundo Deportivo. The results reveal that AI is conceived in the Spanish press media as an assistant aimed at optimizing all kinds of mechanical processes and existing products, not at amplifying coverage or generating final pieces that reduce the standard of quality essential to their subscription model. Groups such as Prisa, Vocento or Unidad Editorial centralize their AI strategy, while Grupo Godó delegates this management to its headers. These newspapers consider that AI will boost the renewal of job profiles in their structures, despite the fact that they do not currently have strictly specialized professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is frequently claimed that mainstream news organisations are in crisis and becoming ever more marginalised in the contemporary high-choice media environment. Such claims frequently conflate different challenges facing the industry, resulting in over-generalised claims about the prospects for established news brands. In this article, we identify four related crises: reach, resource, reputation and relevance. Through the analysis of each, we show that many claims about the displacement of mainstream news are overstated, but that the interactive aspects of these crises are presenting particularly significant challenges for local news production and news organisations orientated towards impartiality norms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Philippines, everyone is presumed to know the law. Laws in the Philippines take effect after fifteen days following the completion of their publication either in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines. Respondents in this mini research were local teachers and professors from secondary and tertiary levels within the National Capital Region (NCR) with some of them from outside the NCR. Survey questionnaires were administered in this study through convenient and snowball sampling techniques. The initial pulse from the respondents indicated that they have a good percentage of the knowledge of the six identified laws. Most of their knowledge were acquired in attending seminars and conference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article revisits and updates questions that guided research that analyzed the repertoires of action adopted by teachers in the face of democratic construction processes that reached their peak in the 1970s, in Brazil and Portugal (Xavier, 2013). Its central objective is to analyze the identity negotiations (Dubar, 2005) that permeated the political protagonism exercised by teachers in the actions and associations created in the influx of these movements. In the first topic, it locates the teaching movements in the space and time of the democratic transition and presents the questions that guided the writing of this article. In the second topic, it analyzes printed sources such as the mass circulation newspapers in Rio de Janeiro and the "O Professor" Magazine, with a view to observing the dissonant views regarding the establishment of an image of the teachers who participated in these movements. The third topic takes a statement relating to the experience of self-management lived in a Portuguese secondary school and highlights its reverberations in the interviewee's professional self-perception. In the final considerations, a brief reflection is developed on the disputes over the control of teaching identities and also on possible developments of this study. As a result of the analysis developed, it was possible to perceive the constitution of an engaged and autonomous teaching identity, through the analysis of the Magazine "O Professor". In turn, the mass circulation newspapers in Rio de Janeiro expressed the perspective of establishing a deviant identity in the face of teaching's political protagonism, triggering society's moral panic (Adorno, 1998), by condemning the collective actions that were part of the political repertoire of this professional group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines private Palestinian Arabic periodicals established during the Second Ottoman Constitutional Era, shedding light on the shifts and transformations within the press market during this dynamic period. Its aim is to piece together the circulation and distribution patterns of these publications. The research explores various facets, such as subscriber statistics, the geographical distribution of readership, and the pricing strategies. Following the Young Turk Revolution, there was a great expansion in journalistic endeavours, resulting in the establishment of numerous periodicals based in the three urban centres of Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa. However, the ensuing years witnessed a gradual consolidation, so that by the outbreak of World War I, only a fraction of the Arabic periodicals founded earlier continued operations. These publications followed diverse trajectories: some folded quickly owing to the fierce competition and the multitude of challenges plaguing journalistic activities, while others experienced a gradual decline but managed to sustain operations for an extended period. By contrast, the most successful among them strengthened their position by attracting prominent advertisers, actively engaging with the crucial issues of the era, introducing innovative practices, and consistently expanding their readership base, ultimately reaching their peak at the outbreak of WWI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Using the newspaper circulation data collected through the Alliance for Audited Media (n = 1,925 across five years), this study provides the first empirical spatial analysis of newspaper circulation in the US, employing the theoretical framework of communication geography and the analytical tool of spatial econometrics. From 2018 to 2022, a steady decline (at an average of 24.1% per year) in newspaper circulation was observed in most of the counties in the dataset, after controlling for spatial and temporal random effects. A positive and significant spatial autocorrelation was found across the US. The local indicators of spatial association results identified four types of spatial clusters that offer a more nuanced understanding of the local spatial distribution of newspaper circulation: news deserts, news oases, news islands, and the fringe of news deserts. The study also used Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling to pinpoint the regions that are more sensitive to the spatial structure regarding the decline of newspaper circulation.

Despite industry-wide efforts in digitally transforming news organizations, research showed that most newspapers’ legacy products still outperformed the same newspaper’s digital offerings in terms of engagement, circulation, readership, pricing, advertising, and subscription revenue—all by a wide margin. But Covid-19 created an unprecedented scenario where the need for instant, local news updates, the fear of contacting anything tangible, and financial stress may have changed consumer behavior. To assess the state of the newspaper industry, this study analyzes short-term and long-term trends in US newspapers’ digital and print circulation before and during the pandemic. The analysis considered price, an important factor often neglected in discussions about newspaper demand. Utilizing rich industry data, this study analyzed 18 US metro daily newspapers’ circulation trends during 2016–2022. The results revealed that digital circulation increased rapidly after the onset of Covid-19 but subsequently decreased after reaching the peak in Q3 2021. Print circulation continued its rapid decline since 2016, accompanied by continuous, substantial price hikes for print subscriptions—a typical print subscription now costs over $1,000 a year. Despite circulation declines, the print edition remains the core product, with more subscribers paying far more than digital subscribers. Because of the immense price gap (6 to 1), the seemingly promising increase in digital subscriptions during Covid-19 could not generate nearly as much revenue to cover the loss on the print side, resulting in a substantial loss in total subscription revenue. The state of the US newspaper industry needs immediate attention.

In a routine search for meteorological events with a great impact on society in the Extremadura region (SW interior of Iberia) using newspapers, the month of June 1925 was detected as exceptional due to the large number of electrical storms that occurred and the significant impacts that caused, with serious losses in human lives and material resources. This anomalous month was analyzed in detail from different, complementary perspectives: (i) the reconstruction of the history of the events, taking into account the most affected places and the most damaging impacts, from periodical publications (especially the "Extremadura" newspaper, which was the newspaper with the largest circulation in the region in 1925); (ii) the study of monthly meteorological variables (precipitation, temperature and cloudiness) of the longest series available in Iberia to highlight the exceptional nature of June 1925; and (iii) the analysis of the synoptic situation of the thunderstorms events using 20CR reanalysis data to understand from a synoptic point of view the exceptionality of this month, with a combination of a negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) situation, high Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) values, and available water in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the important communication channels today, the news can inform and manipulate individuals. In order to reveal the public reflections of violence in health care, which is one of the important problems encountered in the health system in Turkey, the news on the subject were examined in detail within this study. The scope of the research consists of 946 news reports from the top five newspapers with the highest circulation (Hürriyet, Sabah, Sözcü, Milliyet and Posta). Web mining was used to obtain the data. In the analysis of the data, word clouds, time graphs and trigram were created using text mining method. In addition, using manual content analysis, the news reports were classified under some basic headings. It was determined that the most frequently used common words in the news headlines, abstracts and contents were "health", "violence", "doctor" and "hospital". When examined in terms of content, it was emphasized in the news that violence in health care occurred mostly in hospitals and emergency departments, violence was committed mostly by patient relatives and patients, the group most exposed to violence was physicians, and violence usually resulted in injury. It is thought that these findings will be beneficial in terms of contributing to the accurate determination of the issues to be prioritized in policymaking processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pandemic generated containment and mitigation policies, as well as distancing and confinement strategies that limited the supply of water resources to social sectors. Residential areas- The offer is maintained, but with an increase in rates. Marginalized areas were subsidized and exempted from paying for an increasingly intermittent supply. The anti-COVID-19 policies guided water policies in two ways: The first consisted of disseminating anti-COVID-19 policies in water management agencies. Another second consisted of the autonomy of the institutions and their disassociation or agreement with the antiCOVID-19 policies. In this way, the literature from 2020 to 2023 around anti-COVID-19 policies in their water dimensions, registers problems of scarcity, famine and unsanitary conditions. Scarcity had already been observed in marginalized sectors, famine in residential neighborhoods, but unsanitary conditions were appreciated in migrant communities. In fact, the type of exposure to occupational hazards determined the health status of the migrants. The water problems were recorded in the circulation press to highlight the asymmetries of the anti-COVID-19 policies in the public and private sectors, as well as in the political and social actors. The objective of the study was to reveal the network structure of relationships between nodes and edges related to press releases on water issues. A documentary, cross-sectional and retrospective study was carried out with national circulation newspapers: El País, El Reforma, La Jornada and El Universal, considering the water problems of scarcity, unsanitary conditions and famine. The results show a structure of nodes where the water problems were initiated by La Jornada and ended by El Reforma. Both findings are relevant considering the ideology of the newspaper. La Jornada, a newspaper identified with the political ideology of the left, began the diffusion of water problems in a city administered by a government of the same ideology. El Reforma, a newspaper designated by the executive as a spokesperson for the opposition ideology, culminates the network of notes on water problems. In other words, regardless of the type of political ideology attributed to newspapers, the problems of scarcity, unsanitary conditions and famine are spread.In relation to the state of the art where it is shown that ideology does not influence the establishment of the agenda, the present work corroborates and recommends expanding the study to other entities administered by the opposition such as the cities of Guadalajara and Monterrey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The severity of the 2014–15 West African Ebola epidemic in Liberia was coupled with widespread misunderstanding of the virus among citizens and the proliferation of rumours. Rumour control during outbreaks is imperative to reduce the public's fears about a disease. In Liberia, a tracker system was developed to detect rumours as quickly as possible through SMS (short message service) text messaging. This study focused on assessing rumour circulation in newspapers and on radio and rumour control over time. It relied on a content analysis of SMS messages from the 'DeySay' tracker, print and audio communications of newspapers, and radio programmes, in the time frame between January 2014 and March 2015. The findings show that more rumours appeared in newspapers but were more likely to be overtly characterised as such on the radio. DeySay accurately predicted rumours before they appeared on the radio and in newspapers, supporting its usefulness in future health epidemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents part of the results of the investigation entitled Female sexual dysfunction and promotion of disease: approach from "critical analysis of discourse (CAD)", which applied the theoretical and methodological perspective of critical analysis of discourse to reporting in Colombia's two leading newspapers with nationwide circulation, El Espectador and El Tiempo, in their online versions. The study addressed discursive and sociolinguistic dimensions, and in this article the focus is on the latter, based on the identification and analysis of the main rhetorical, pragmatic, logical, and grammatical elements of the news articles that made up the corpus. Relevant findings include the use of a diversity of linguistic resources that help shape a discourse in which the journalistic genre implicitly merges with the conventions of advertising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present some findings of a research that aimed to know what are the subjective effects of indebtedness for state teachers in Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil. In this article, we focus on analyses and discussions concerning the production of teachers' indebtedness and the precariousness of their lives due to neoliberal rationality. The research work, whose methodology was a composition of an analysis of archeo-genealogical inspiration and the cartographic process, included interviews with eight teachers and analysis of reports from newspapers of large circulation, from the teachers' union, cartoons and reports on the Internet on the theme. Here we analyze the impacts of neoliberal governmentality in the condition and daily life of teachers considering the austerity policies conducted by state governments, the effects of public debt and the concept of neoliberal homo oeconomicus, addressed by Michel Foucault. The neoliberal logic structures the conduct of subjects as entrepreneurs of themselves, with emphasis on competition and individual accountability. We discussed the issue of debt as biopolitics, the implications of teachers' financial and moral indebtedness and the proletarianization of the profession, which led us to highlight a notion of precariousness not only corresponding to the low remuneration received by teaching professionals, but of life itself; in these circumstances, (mere) survival is normalized and credit for "life" is assured. We conclude by discussing the mutation of the popular saying that opens the title, in an attempt to link indebtedness and the precarization of life, an approach that we believe requires further study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Women are underrepresented in politics. In this paper, we test one of the potential explanations for this situation: gender biases from voters. We use a natural experiment during French local elections in 2015: for the first time in this country, candidates had to run in pairs, which had to be gender-balanced. We argue that this reform confused some voters, who might have assumed that the first name on the ballot represented the 'main' candidate. Since the order of the candidates on the ballot was determined by their alphabetical order, the order of appearance of male and female candidates was as-good-as-random and this setting allows us to isolate gender biases from selection effects. Our main result is that there exists a negative gender bias affecting right-wing candidates, whose vote shares were lower by 1.5 percentage points when the female candidate appeared first on the ballot. The missing votes prevented some pairs of candidates from proceeding to the second round of voting. Using data on newspaper circulation and additional institutional features of the election—namely the fact that candidates can (but do not have to) report additional information about themselves on the ballot—we show that higher levels of information decrease discrimination. We argue that the discrimination we identify is, therefore, likely to be statistical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article deals with the experience of creating the figure of editor of gender in the Argentinian media. This figure emerged on the scene in June 2019 with the appointment of Mariana Iglesias as editor of Clarín, one of Argentina's most important commercial newspapers with a nationwide circulation. Today there are ten female editors of media outlets of various kinds in Argentina. They receive the support of a society with a strong awareness of the rights of women and groups of sexual diversity, but they still face multiple challenges and resistance from certain quarters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The super cyclone 'Amphan' originated in the Bay of Bengal on 20-21st May, 2020 during the peak phase of Covid-19 pandemic in India. Amphan had affected various parts of West Bengal, Odisha along with the neighbour country, Bangladesh. It was a massive challenge to handle rescue and relief in the pre and post Amphan phase compared to any other super cyclone. During that period Bengal witnessed a rapid spread of Covid pandemic where Covid -Protocol was strictly imposed by the State. In this phase, the media had a role to inform the people about the super cyclone and the preventive measures to be taken from the pandemic. Considering the 'Sustainable Development Goal 3' the present research has tried to explore the ways in which public health communication can be conducted during and after phases of any natural disaster, like Amphan. A comparative study has been done, of the selected newspapers and social media, to evaluate the issues of media content and preferences of coverage during the cyclone. Based on the report of the 'Audit Bureau of Circulation' Report, the newspapers with highest circulation in English had been selected for content analysis. In addition to this, using 'Boolean Search Operators' the highest liked tweets are also selected for analysis. The comparative analysis has been followed by the Grounded Theory to explore the relationship between different catalysts of public health advocacy and communication approaches in any natural disasters. The analyses revealed that newspapers are one of the authentic sources of news to get some information related to the crisis and/or natural calamities and its devastating damages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a quantitative analysis with a gender perspective of the informative pieces related to health in Basque newspapers. The main objective is to analyze the representativeness and visibility of women during states of alarm in the four mainstream newspapers with the largest circulation in the Basque Country. The results show that, in general, the presence of men is greater than that of women. There is a gender gap in favor of men in the use of information sources and when choosing the protagonists of articles. However, there is also fair data regarding the authorship of the informative pieces and photographs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: Convergence of linguistics and semiotics materializes in the text not only the conceptual content that is expressed through codes, but the message also underlies the realism of the communicative intentions of the issuing agent in a specific context and the value of the interactions of the actors of the communicative act. Methodology: The vision of reality that is established in the collective imaginary must be analyzed from the interpretation of society and culture, the laws of operation and their constituent parts. For this, this research approached two newspapers of national circulation, five general radio channels of national coverage, and two television newscasts of private channels, and through the use of quantitative instruments, the posts, tweets or videos were reviewed in order to analyze the constituent elements of the discourse—text, images, hashtags, or keywords—which are appreciated from the syntactic and semantic perspectives (structural) and pragmatics (functional). Results: The communication process in its social context denotes the intervention of nonlinguistic elements of sociocultural order that demarcate the generation and interpretation of the meanings and senses of linguistic expressions. Discussion: The linguistic structure offers conditions for communication, but any generation and transmission of meanings is a product of the intention of the subjects who use it for specific purposes and in specific communicative situations within a social context. Conclusions: Intensive use of digital technology and social networks naturalized a relationship of proximity and familiarity in the communication process, satisfaction of needs in the multiplicity of information that is created and distributed in the network bundled to mobile devices and the political and social ecosystem of the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article originates from the different findings on popular devotion, from performed doctoral research. Here, however, we will narrow down the debate and will analyze the following objectives: to list the "people's saints" in Ceará, highlighting whether there is relation between body in suffering and production of holiness in a gender view; to discuss the particularities of stories of women that were murdered and made part of the popular Catholicism in Ceará; and, finally, to draw a profile of who they are, about the age group, the motivations for crime, the temporality of their deaths intertwined with narratives of devotees. It is important noting that we extensively use documental analysis (FREHSE, 2005) with a careful look at newspaper articles. We focus, especially, on the stories of the "people's saints" in Ceará, being based on the reportage "Santificados", from the newspaper O Povo, one of the main circulation newspapers in Fortaleza-CE. The results of this investigation reveal to us that, about the analyzed sixteen "people's saints" from Ceará, there is no doubt that the chastity, the silence and the obedience are a representation of the Catholic discourse (BOESCH GAJANO, 2002; LE GOFF, 1990, 2007; MATOS, 2014) that crosses the life of these women. Some of them created strategies of agency in their lives, from a gender perspective (MARQUES, 2014), however, were reconstructed by the "saint manufacturers" (SÁEZ,1996), based on the discourse of violence, reconfigured into the notion of martyrdom. However, it is known that the narratives about them overflow or even "subvert" such typologies. They are, therefore, hybrid and porous saints, in the sense of that there is no a fixed identity of holiness in the stories presented. There are, yes, question marks, recreations, asymmetries and continuities in the constitution of femininities of the "people's saints". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of the internet and social networks has pushed the media to reorient their communication strategies. Fashion and beauty publications in Spain have been no exception and have entered this new media ecosystem in which they have found a very attractive potential audience for their content. The aim of this research is to examine the content strategies of magazines on the Instagram social network. To this end, a quantitative content analysis has been carried out of the publications made by the four Spanish newspapers with the highest circulation according to the EGM during 2021. A coding code was developed to analyse the content, topics, technical and stylistic elements, and the presence of brands in their publications, as well as the impact of their messages and the relationship with their audience. The results indicate that each magazine presents its own style of communication with varied themes, but where fashion is the most repeated subject. All of them exploit the high visual component of this social network and establish synergies with their print versions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic scenario raises the amplification of the debate around the production and circulation of information about epidemics. In this sense, the objective of this article is to discuss how social contexts shape the news, taking as an example the case of the news coverage that transformed an epizootic of yellow fever, in the summer of 2007/2008, into an epidemic of urban yellow fever. This is a qualitative research with journalists who worked in two large circulation newspapers and actively participated in the coverage of the event. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and submitted to discourse analysis, which allowed the identification of three factors that influenced the production of a media epidemic of yellow fever: the working conditions and the modus operandi of the newsrooms; the political-ideological dimension of the newspapers; and the difficulties of translation of technicalscientific information. A critical understanding of the production process of the journalistic text can contribute to the construction of communication strategies that minimize the circulation of misinformation on public health in traditional media (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV and news portals). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The provincial Liberal government, then led by McCullagh's good friend Premier Mitchell Hepburn, quickly moved to oppose the action and the I Globe and Mail i soon became a gramophone strongly supporting Hepburn's attack on the UAW. The McCullagh-King relationship Bourrie describes was not positive, with the wily King thinking McCullagh hopelessly naïve and the restless McCullagh convinced that King was too cautious and yesterday's man. [Extracted from the article]

The pandemic led to containment and mitigation policies, as well as distancing and confinement strategies that limited the supply of water resources to social sectors. Residential areas-maintained supply, but with an increase in rates. Marginalized areas were subsidized and exempted from paying for an increasingly intermittent supply. Anti-COVID-19 policies guided water policies in two ways: The first consisted of disseminating anti-COVID-19 policies in water management agencies. Another second consisted of the autonomy of the institutions and their decoupling or concordance with anti-COVID-19 policies. In this way, the literature from 2019 to 2022 around anti-COVID-19 policies in their water dimensions, register problems of scarcity, famine and unhealthiness. The scarcity had already been observed in the marginalized sectors, the famine in the residential areas, but the unhealthiness was appreciated in the migrant communities. In fact, the type of exposure to occupational hazards determined the health status of migrants. The water problems were recorded in the circulation press to highlight the asymmetries of anti-COVID-19 policies on the public and private sectors, as well as political and social actors. The objective of the study was to reveal the network structure of relationships between nodes and edges related to press releases on water issues. A documentary, cross-sectional and retrospective study was carried out with newspapers of national circulation: El País, El Reforma, La Jornada and El Universal, considering the water problems of scarcity, unhealthiness and famine. The results show a structure of nodes where the water problems were initiated by La Jornada and ended by El Reforma. Both findings are relevant considering the ideology of the newspaper. La Jornada, a newspaper identified with the political ideology of the left, initiated the dissemination of water problems in a city administered by a government of the same ideology. El Reforma, a newspaper designated by the executive as a spokesperson for the opposition ideology, culminates the network of notes on water problems. That is to say, regardless of the type of political ideology attributed to the newspapers, the problems of scarcity, unhealthiness and famine are spread. In relation to the state of the art where it is shown that ideology does not influence the establishment of the agenda, the present work corroborates and recommends expanding the study to other entities administered by the opposition such as the cities of Guadalajara and Monterrey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines how people with mental illnesses are portrayed in the news. The literature review on the subject that the studies examining the representation of mental illness in the national press are limited. The main purposes of the study are to determine how the national press portrays individuals with mental illness and to reveal the negative fiction in the news and visuals. The websites of "Hürriyet" and "Sabah" newspapers were chosen as the sample. The circulation of the newspapers was considered in the determination of the study focus. The news on the websites, whose subjects are mental patients, were examined for six months, from January to June 2021. Qualitative and quantitative content analysis methods were applied in the study. As a result, the study revealed that these newspapers generally approached the individuals with mental illnesses in a neutral manner; however, the approach was generally negative in the news about the police/courthouse. It was found out that descriptive titles were used in the news, the subject of the news was generally mental health and police/judicial issues, the news texts were usually long, and that the source was generally healthcare professionals and news agencies. Besides,it was determined that the news photos were negative, and that the news examined adopted negative tendencies such as stigmatization, association with violence and/or crime, using negative adjectives, and using images reflecting feelings such as helplessness, depression, sadness, and aggression in the news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The construction of the Transamazon Highway, in 1970, projected the transference of populations, especially from the Northeast and South regions of Brazil, to the population centers that would be implemented on its margins. From dialogues with residents, as well as analysis of news in newspapers with national circulation, it is evident that the Agro-village Leonardo D’Vinci it constituted a population nucleus whose history brings important social dynamics to understand the colonization program and the challenges that brought the lives of people who believed in the government's call and left for the Amazon. The trajectory of agro-village brings the dilemmas of the colonization program implemented by the Transamazon, which ignored the local populations and brought problems for them and for the migrants who left for the highway, in search of a better life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]