Journalism and Sensibility Journalists have to face many difficult situations in their day-to-day work. They meet people who might be both physically and psychologically injured and have to deal with all that when it comes to their work and their personal feelings. (Englund, 2008). The purpose of this study was to investigate how that affect journalists and how they think about the meetings with victims and their kins and relatives. Further more, with other difficulties you come across in your daily work as a Swedish journalist and how you cope with these issues in regard to various coping strategies, (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). Deep interview studies with six experienced journalists from Gothenburg and a web-based survey have all been conducted with 263 newspaper-, radio- and TV-journalists in various parts of Sweden. The study showed that there are many difficult situations you have to think of and deal with all along as a journalist, concerning both ethical and emotional issues.

In the end of 2001 Sweden joined the International Security Assistance Force, also known as ISAF, to participate in the mission to restore and preserve the security around Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. In August 2003, the headship of the force that contained the Swedish soldiers was passed on to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In the context of the Swedish foreign policy of neutrality, and the fact that Sweden wasn´t a member of NATO, this was to be regarded as a controversial issue. The controversial nature of the matter was later acknowledged when a heavy debate took form in the Swedish media after the events in 2005, when two Swedish soldiers were killed after being hit by a roadside bomb in Mazar-i-Sharif, located in northwestern parts of Afghanistan.

To examine which view of sex, men and women have that is conveyed in Swedish magazines for men. Furthermore, we´ve had an ambition to investigate how this view has altered over time. Question formulations: 1) How is sexuality depicted in the two most widespread Swedish lifestyle magazines for men? 2) Has this condition changed over the past ten years? 3) If this should be the case, what is the reason for that?

Suicide is a controversial subject when it comes to media reporting in Sweden. Often journalists tend to avoid the subject out of fear of spawning more suicides among its audience. The notion that giving attention to suicides in media will spawn even more suicides is called the werther effect. Recently we have seen a change in trend in Swedish media when it comes to suicide. The last ten years the media has started to give more attention to suicide cases than before. Often the reports are focused on celebrity suicides, but even specific suicides committed by commoners have seen its share of attention. In this work, the authors are investigating this new trend in Swedish media reporting. More specifically this study is committed to investigating how journalists report when it comes to suicide. In parallel to this, the study also tries to investigate whether there is any substance in fearing the werther effect.

The aim of this paper is to find out how the six largest Swedish newspapers depict China. It also looks at how Swedish journalists and newspaper editors define their democratic responsibilities as journalists, and whether they fulfill the ideals and responsibilities that are part of the idea of journalism as an important part of democracy, for example scrutinizing of those in power and explanation of complicated events to the public. The paper aims to answer three questions: What are the responsibilities of the Swedish media when reporting from China? What is the image of China in Swedish newspapers? Do the Swedish journalists fulfill their democratic responsibilities when reporting from China?

Aim Our aim is to shed light on a relatively new field of journalism: e-sports and see how it is being treated by three Swedish newspapers. Main questions What attributes gets pinned on to e-sports and how is people involved with e-sports described in articles? What are three of the biggest Swedish newspapers reporting about e-sports and gaming culture? How is their content different to online e-sportsites? How is the e-sportplayer pictured in traditional press?

Purpose Media is one of the four agents of socialization. The other agents of socialization are family, friends and school. The identity of children is influenced by the articles in magazines. The power of the media declines in adult years but still remains strong. This theory was the starting point of our article.