Kategoriarkiv: Journalistikgranskning

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Flykten från landsbygden

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka om, och i så fall på vilket sätt, mångfalden i innehållet förändras i två konkurrerande tidningar på samma ort när de får en gemensam ägare. För att belysa detta har vi valt att genom en kvantitativ innehållsanalys titta närmare på nyhetsmaterialet i tidningarna Gefle Dagblad (GD) och Arbetarbladet (AB) som sedan 2003 ägs av koncernen Mittmedia. Tidningarna har länge varit ärkerivaler i regionen. Den liberala GD har historiskt sett varit starkare i huvudorten Gävle medan AB varit starkare i de mindre kommunerna av spridningsområdet. En sådan maktfördelning är generellt sett vanlig när det gäller borgerlig och socialdemokratisk press. Centrala begrepp i denna uppsats är således ägarkoncentration och mångfald. I strävan att mäta mångfalden i tidningarnas innehåll utgår denna studie från medieforskaren Denis McQuails teorier om olika dimensioner av mångfald. De tre viktigaste av dessa dimensioner i denna uppsats är de som behandlar: 1) geografisk täckning, 2) innehåll i form av vilka ämnen som tas upp i nyhetsmaterialet och 3) vilka aktörer som får komma till tals. Vårt huvudsakliga fokus riktas mot dimensionen geografisk täckning då detta är en mångfaldsaspekt som är relativt outforskad i svensk forskning på ämnet. Uppsatsen redogör även för vissa ekonomiska drivkrafter som talar för att olika förändringar och uppdelningar mellan samägda tidningar kan vara ekonomiskt gynnsamma att genomföra. Nyckelfrågan i denna studie är således: Har det skett en förändring i hur stor utsträckning tidningarna rapporterar från de respektive orterna i spridningsområdet, och i så fall, hur ser denna förändring ut? Studien visar att det har skett en förskjutning i den geografiska täckningen i GD som sedan förvärvet av AB fokuserat allt mer på nyhetsrapportering från Gävle. Detta betyder att det i vissa kommuner i spridningsområdet knappt längre går att tala om två tidningar som konkurrerar med den lokala nyhetsbevakningen. För den enskilde medborgaren i vissa kommuner har det skett en förändring av mångfalden i det lokala nyhetsmaterialet.

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Att sälja en journalist

Att sälja en journalist – Hur dagstidningar marknadsför sina journalister Written by: Jonatan Fjelstad & Viktor Mölne Bachelor´s degree of Journalism Department of Journalism, Media & Communication. Autumn term 2013 University of Gothenburg The purpose of this study is to determine if Swedish newspapers has increased the visibility of their own journalists between the years 2000 and 2012 and if that’s the case how they have done so. By doing so we hope to shed some light on how individual journalists are increasingly personalized and how this can be part of the newspapers branding strategy. The journalist’s personal brands have been the subject of more research lately. But from the perspective of the newspaper itself, not much has been studied. We have utilized a broad theoretical approach with its foundation in commercialization and some personalization and visualization. We also lean quite heavily on research focused on branding, especially branding for media corporations. The nature of the study is quantitative and we have studied three Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet, Aftonbladet and Expressen. We have coded all the respective newspapers opinion material and plugs, everything that mentions the material in the paper or other media forms, for individual journalists. In total 1041 units of analysis data has been collected and analysed. Our results show that there is an increase in the amount of mentioning of individual journalists in plugs, both stand-alone and in context of other articles. In 2012 we saw almost 5 times as many as in 2000. The big majority of these were to columns and other opinionated material. To our surprise, however, we found have found no signs that opinionated material is used to promote the work of the newspapers own journalists in any greater extent.

Civila i krig

Study: The purpose of this study is to examine how the daily Swedish press portrayed civilians in wartime during 1968 och 2003. It also examines if the reporting has changed and if civilians nowadays are portrayed under different circumstances, with regards to earlier research about war journalism. It examines if the norms that are associated with war journalism are being fulfilled better or worse today, compared with the reporting in the sixties.

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Familjekära chefer och opersonliga ledare

Title: Familjära chefer och opersonliga ledare – en studie om reproducering av stereotypa könsroller i intervjuer med kvinnliga och manliga chefer i Dagens industri Authors: Linnéa Pettersson and Lovisa Waldeck Subject: Undergraduate research paper in journalism studies, Dept. of journalism, media and communication, JMG, University of Gothenburg Term: Autumn 2013 Supervisor: Mats Ekström, JMG, University of Gothenburg Pages: 33 Purpose: The main purpose was to identify and examine the difference between how the business newspaper Dagens industri portray male and female CEOs and executives. The study focuses on longer interviews of more personal character. Method: Qualitative content analysis Procedure: Fourteen interviews in Dagens industri, with seven men and seven women, were described and analyzed. Results: By using qualitative content analysis we were able to find that stereotypic gender roles are being reproduced in many ways in Dagens industri. The interviews with the female leaders have a more personal character with a larger focus on their private life while men gets to answer more technical questions related to their company. Women are questioned about their children and home while men are not. Both men and women are attributed with stereotypical characters.

Jämställdhet i svensk musikjournalistik

Abstract: Female musicians´ part and the treatment in the music world are more and more loudly debated. Criticism regarding female musicians in music journalism is often expressed. The purpose of this essay is to examine and analyze three areas within Swedish music journalism, and investigate whether or nor female musicians and male musicians are participating on the same conditions.

Informerade svenskar utan identitet

This bachelor thesis explores how two of Swedens most read and well considerd newspapers have provided the Swedish citizens with information about the treaty of Lisbon. Sweden became a memberstate of the European Union (EU) in 1995 and since then a lot has changed in the swedish political organisation. Now the Swedish citizens have to learn these changes, get to know and understand them. In this process media plays an important role. The main questions of the thesis are if the newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, two Swedish broadsheets with a large audience, provide their readers with information about the effects of the treaty of Lisbon. Changes and effects considering the political organisation of EU, power and influence. The study also examines whether the publications contribute to the formation of a new European identity. To answer the questions the method of Etnographic Content Analysis (ECA) has been used. Two themes were designed for the analysis: information about organisation, power and influence and information about identity. To these themes several questions have been asked to the material. The analyzed articles were chosen from the two year period when the treaty was to be approved in all of the national parliaments. Results show that information about the treaty of Lisbon has been provided to the readers. Although, the information has been of various quality and relevance. A lot of the articles focus on the ratification process of the treaty rather than the effects in power and influence that it might have on the memberstates and the European Union. The information that the articles provide are mainly focused on the changes of the political organisation. Other findings are that none of the newspapers can be considered to contribute to familiarize and to build a new European identity. This because the analyzed articles didn’t contain European perspectives and failed to put the European Union in a relevant context. In the conclusion the study shows that Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet provides the Swedish readers with information about the treaty of Lisbon. Although the information mainly focused on the process and not on the effects the treaty. The newspapers did not contribute to the building of an European identity.