The question about how to handle issues of integration is discussed widely throughout Europe. In general debates concerning immigration and integration policies, Sweden tends to compare itself with Denmark. The common impression is that Denmark has a far too rigid take on integration issues and that they are hostile towards foreigners. The Danes, however, accuse the Swedes of being afraid of addressing the problems and keeping quiet due to political correctness. We found that these ideas are widespread, but few studies actually look at how issues of integration are taken on in the two countries, especially in media research.

The purpose of the project is to investigate possible changes in the Swedish evening press and their way of reporting. In this case we have chosen the two biggest evening newspapers Aftonbladet och Expressen. To do so we choose to look at two of Sweden´s most media covered events in later years, the infamous ”Lasermannen”. Lasermannen or John Ausonius acted during the years 1991-92 in Stockholm. He became an almost mythical person that injured ten people and killed one person before the police arrested him. The other case is similar in many ways to that of Lasermannen but took place in Malmö. In 2010 a single offender, in media called ”Malmöskytten”, shoots a number of people based on their ethnical origin.

Commercialization vs Journalistic ideals This report was conducted in order to investigate if Swedish journalists feel that they have to compromise with their ideals due to an increased commercialization of the media market, and if they have seen any change over time.

Title: ”Jack-in-the-box” – the mediatized politics Everybody thinks that media gets more power and that politicians play by rules set up by the media and that society has adapted to this. We think that mediatization has become a part of the society. Have politics and politicians become more mediatized?

Purpose: Our aim is to research the commercial situation for the small magazines in Sweden. Question: What is the condition regarding distribution? What is the condition regarding their market and economy? What is their relationship to the advertisers? How do they market themselves?

The main purpose of the study was to examine how dictatorships and partly free countries are presented in Swedish travel magazines during 2010 and the beginning of 2011. Questions that we have sought answers to are: How much information about the political situation do we get from the articles about the concerned countries? Do they mention anything about human rights? Does the social situation get any attention? If the articles doesn´t mention any of the factors above, what do they mention? In what way do you compromise with the journalistic ideals when writing about travels? We have also taken a look at how the inhabitants of the concerned countries are presented and whether or not they get to have their say.