The aim of the study was to examine how two newspapers covered the murder of Lisa Holm. The questions examined were: How are Lisa Holm, the perpetrator and the local community represented and what are the differences and similarities between the local news paper, Skaraborgs Allehanda, and the tabloid, Aftonbladet?  We made a discourse analysis of 13 news articles from six different time periodes. The result shows that the victim is represented as an innocent, young girl who is described as good, happy and perfect. The local news paper represents her as a part of the local community and the tabloid is highlighting attributes that people can identify with. The perpetrator is represented as an evil and callous foreign in both newspapers, but Aftonbladet also represents him as a usual person. Skaraborgs Allehanda focus on his guilt of the murder. The local community is represented as a certain group with common emotions who is also the light in the darkness. They share the grief and help each other to process it. The tabloid focus on highlighting the geografic closeness between the people in the articles and the murder. In Aftonbladet, the local community is also described as a dangerous place. Our study shows that the distance between the newspaper and the crime scene affect the representations of the people involved.

Locally generated content comprises nearly 80% of front page content for most American newspapers, with Associated Press and other wire service content comprising between 15% and 20% across various circulation categories. However, newspapers with daily circulation between 30,000 and 50,000 provide a sharp distinction – a “curve” or “groove” – publishing an average of barely 60% locally generated content on their front page, pulling nearly 40% from wire services. The anomaly declines somewhat for publications with daily circulation between 50,000 and 100,000. This statistical content analysis of 42 American newspapers of diverse circulation sizes also reveals a universal focus on domestic politics, which comprises nearly a third of all locally generated and wire content, and reveals key commonalities across circulation categories and regional boundaries. / text

本論文計一冊，約三萬字。論文內容，簡要說明如下： 報業的電腦化，是必然的趨勢。 在國報業即將啟用電腦排版之前，本研究希望能為版面改革，提供若干建議以為參考 ，並期能對電腦排版的發展有所助益。 由於目前國內版面過於繁複，可能反而扺消吸引讀者注意的效果，並且妨礙讀者閱讀 新聞。因此，本研究第二章，計分四節，探討國內外報紙版面的演進與比較，擬定設 計版面的原則為「簡化」、「和諧」。 第三章為研究方法，採取實驗法，依「空白」、「欄數」、「拼版方式」三項因素， 設計八個實驗版面。以２×２×２多因子變異數分析方法，探討實驗因素單獨與交互 作用對版面產生影響，並分析實驗版面的優劣。 第四章為研究結果，討論「實驗因素的評估」、「實驗版面的評估」、「報業從業人 員的意見」、「應用電腦排版的可能性」。

論文摘要 本文目的在以階級形成的觀點，透過文獻收集與深度訪談，詮釋1984至2002年之間，經驗過衝突和集體行動的台灣報業記者勞工意識的建構過程與內涵轉變。 研究發現，隨著報業自動化、政治解嚴、報禁解除，以及九○年代以後，有線電視、網路科技興盛以及閱報率下降，報業市場萎縮，報社因倒閉、停刊的裁員案例漸增，工作權不保的危機由印務部擴展至編輯部。過去強調新聞自由、專業的記者編輯，因工作內容特殊性，多不認同勞工身份，更遑論有勞工意識，但隨著自早停刊、自晚經營權轉移以及中時無預警裁撤中南編事件的勞資爭議事件，少數記者編輯卻在勞資爭議的抗爭過程，體認到「勞資關係不平等」，感覺到或有意的結合勞方共同利益，以實際行動對抗資方，激發勞工意識，意識的轉變由以往認知印刷廠工人才是勞工，轉變為只要是受僱者便和一般勞工無異，並體認作為勞工團結象徵的工會之重要性。 然而，至今報社工會且仍在運作者不到10家，除了工會法--廠場工會的限制削弱勞工集體力量的結構性因素外，報業藍、白領勞工工作利益的分歧，形成行動的斷裂，亦為長期報業工會力量弱化的主因。不過，即使在缺乏集體行動的文化傳統下，中國時報產業工會卻能多次以行動挑戰客觀條件的限制，展現強烈的工會性格，與具有工人關懷的知識份子有意識地組織強調集體主義、激發工人意識的工會有關，成為勞工對抗資方的背後支柱。

This study was conducted to detail the history of The Arlington Citizen-Journal newspaper and its editors and the effect of an active newspaper on the orderly growth of a town. The Arlington Citizen-Journal evolved from a merger of two Arlington weekly newspapers, The Arlington Journal and The Arlington Citizen, which for more than fifty years reported Arlington happenings. The study includes historical information about the city, its people, and its institutions, and direct quotations of both editorial comment and news reports of Arlington events and people. It was found that throughout the years of Arlington's rapid growth, The Citizen-Journal was a vital force behind its citizens.

"It is the purpose of this study to determine the type of appeal, the size and cost, the plan of insertions, and the extent superlatives are used in The Dallas Morning News used car advertisements of twenty automobile dealers during the month of April. Fourteen advertising appeals were used by the twenty automobile dealers advertising in The Dallas Morning News in the month of April. The fourteen appeals used were: efficiency, friendliness, style, curiosity, safety, convenience-comfort, economy reliability-reputation, durability-dependability, social distinction, fear-caution, ambition, pleasure, and family affection. The economy was the one most used appeal by the dealer. As shown in Table 12, the number of advertising appeals used corresponds or exceeds very little the total number of advertising insertions. Excepting one case, the dealers place the largest advertisements in the Sunday paper. The general procedure was that of placing large advertisements in the Sunday paper and smaller ones throughout the week. The total cost for the twenty automobile dealers was $6,452.08. The total advertising cost per dealer ranged from $38.20 to $1613.81. Only nine of the twenty dealers used superlatives in advertising during the month of April. The nine dealers used nine different superlatives for a total of 281 times."--leaves 1 and 35.

In media we often see articles about how to lose weight, what we shouldn’t like about our bodies and how to get rid of these so called problems. In this essay we examine how weight is portrayed in Sweden’s two largest evening papers, Expressen and Aftonbladet. The purpose of the essay is to see how Swedish evening papers portray weight in relation to health, appearance, and diet. We have used a quantitative content analysis combined with a qualitative critical discourse analysis to examine this. The two methods combined strengthen the validity and reliability in our results. We examine articles from the newspapers from the years of 1996, 2006 and 2016 to be able to see the differences between these years. Through the quantitative content analysis, we found many interesting patterns. Some of the most important findings are that weight often is portrayed in a way of change and not as something static. A loss of weight is in a majority of the articles described as something positive, whereas to gain weight is described as a problem and something negative. We have also found interesting results about gender. Women take the roll of a private person in a majority of the cases. The role of the expert in the articles have changed from a majority of men to a majority of women. Dieting is portrayed as something typically feminine. In the discourse of weight there seems to be at strong connection between the skinny body, happiness and health whereas the fat body is submissively connected to sickness and ill-health. Our bodies seem to be looked at like a project to be taken care of, in order to fit in to the bodily-norms. If someone fits in to the norm they get values in life in return. Our conclusion is that stereotypical norms of the skinny body and the good in loss of weight is reproduced in Expressen and Aftonbladet, and that this haven’t changed over time. We argue that this can lead to consequences in peoples lifes and a discrimination to certain groups in the society.

The aim of this study was trace the general tendence in the produce of headlines in the tabloid and serious press and their internet versions. The basis for this work was a sample of twelve newspaper headlines that came out in January and February 2013. There were drawn following conclusions on the basis of stylistic and pragmatic analysis and comparison of these titles. Analyzed subtitles are different designs and used language tools. The tabloid media is trying to attract potential readers, especially graphic design titles, while serious media put more accent on the content of the title message. The tabloid headlines have characteristic color caps and overhang headling to other cell components. Headlines of serious media are printed in black and stands on the site separately. One of the differences between tabloid headlines and serious media is their length - tabloid usually decide for shortes ones than the serious media. Basis subtitles should form a neutral literary language, yet there are presented present colloquial expressions in the headlines of tabloids and media. Tabloid headlines include expressive sign unlike the serious media headlines. Statements in the headlines are assertive and have interrogative and directive use. The tabloid media uses interrogative function in headlins more than the...

Disruptive change transforms existing organizational processes. Newspaper organizations such as Orlando Sentinel Communications (OSC) tend to resist process change. As with most newspaper companies in the United States, OSC management was confronted with unprecedented disruptive change and challenges by the accelerated evolution of its business models and processes. This investigation identified and modeled OSC circulation processes to support disruptive change initiatives. The XML Process Definition Language (XPDL) is an XML specification and process modeling solution developed by the Workflow Management Coalition (WFMC) designed to exchange workflow process semantics and graphics. This investigation focused on developing an XPDL process model of OSC circulation processes to address process transformations inherent to disruptive change. The method was a case study of OSC circulation processes through the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) framework to develop a reproducible XPDL process model for OSC to use in planning for disruptive change. The investigation found that XPDL to be well-suited as the language for expressing workflow models to plan, align, and implement processes that anticipate disruptive change. The results of this research also confirmed that organizational values, workflow activities, and subflows play a prominent role in an incumbent organization's response to disruptive change. Finally, this study established that process model metainformation associated with workflow activities, transitions, and resources are core attributes in planning for disruptive change.

Hösten 2016 uppkom ett fenomen som blev omtalat i svenska morgontidningar, den så kallade “clownhysterin”. Fenomen sattes snabbt på agendan och handlade om clowner som hade attackerat människor. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka som får synas i artiklarna och hur de representeras. Artiklarna kommer att inhämtas från de två största kvälls- och morgontidningar i Sverige, Aftonbladet och Dagens Nyheter. Studien använder sig av teorin om medielogiken där begreppen tillspetsning, förenkling, polarisering, intensifiering, personifiering, konkretion och stereotypisering använts. En kvalitativ textanalys kommer att vara studiens metod. Resultaten som tagits fram visar på att vittnen, clowner och utsatta är underrepresenterade i artiklarna. Poliser och högre uppsatta syns till en större grad. Clownerna representeras som de onda och skräckinjagande medan poliser framställs som tillförlitliga och sakliga. / In the fall of 2016 the words “creepy clown hysteria” or “clown attacks” became regular to the Swedish daily press. The phenomenon of clowns attacking people and scaring people became media's head priority during approximately two weeks. The focus of this thesis is to establish who gets to talk in the articles and how these people are represented. The articles are found in the biggest night and morning newspapers, Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. The theory for this thesis is called media logics and includes seven directions, these are; sharpening, simplification, polarization, intensification, personification, concreteness and stereotyping. A qualitative text analysis is used as method for this thesis regarding text. The results of the thesis are that there is an underrepresentation of witnesses, clowns and victims in the texts and an overrepresentation of people with authority like polices. The clowns are represented as evil and horrifying while the polices are shown as trustworthy and honest people.