The work is based on the increasing absence of local journalism, that continue to grow in rural areas and in suburbs to large cities. The consequences are so-called white spots or news desserts, areas with weak or with out any journalistic presence at all. Disappearing advertising revenues and attempts to get readers to become paying subscribers, in order to survive as a local newspaper, place limits on both time and resources.  The difficulty of reaching out to young adults in age 25 - 39 with local journalism, grows and news agencies are working hard to find a solution. The lack of time and resources make it difficult for journalists to address schools. Children’s insight into their parents’ media habits are also disappearing as the newspaper moving into digital platforms. Today’s children and youths are therefore in risk of growing up without relation to the local media. This project put focus on the children. The work contains a process that has led to a concept, that aims to create a strong and early relationship with local media. The project resulted in an application for children, where they have the opportunity to enter the role of a journalist, to create, choose and assemble their own news together with friends. The start of the activity will take place within the school. Where the student learns about source criticism, press ethics, editing, the journalist’s responsibility and what distinguishes journalism from other communication. The learning element runs parallel to a playful approach to increase the student’s motivation and engagement. The concept aims at a collaboration between local media and students. / Arbetet grundar sig i den ökande frånvaron av lokal journalistik, som vi ser växa fram på landsbygd och i förorter till storstäder. Konsekvenserna blir så kallade vita fläckar, områden med svag eller helt utan journalistisk närvaro. Försvinnande annonsintäkter och försöken till att få läsarna att bli betalande prenumeranter, för att överleva som lokal tidning, sätter begränsningar på såväl tid som resurser. Att nå ut till unga vuxna ålder: 25-39 med lokal journalistik, är en problematik som växer sig allt större och nyhetsbyråerna arbetar febrilt för att finna en lösning. Lite tid och bristande resurser gör det svårt för journalister att hinna ut till skolor och barns insyn i föräldrarnas medievanor är liten då papperstidningen flyttat in i mobilen. Dagens barn och ungdomar riskerar därför att växa upp helt utan eller med en mycket svag anknytning till lokala medier och dess varumärke. Det här projektet fokuserar på barnen. Arbetet innehåller en process som lett fram till ett koncept, som syftar på att skapa en stark och tidig relation till lokala medier. Projektet resulterade i en applikation för barn, där de har möjligheten att gå in i rollen som journalist för att skapa, välja ut och färdigställa sina egna nyheter tillsammans med vänner. Aktivitetens startpunkt kommer ske inom skolan, där eleven lär sig om källkritik, pressetik, redaktörskap, journalistens ansvar och vad som skiljer journalistik från övrig kommunikation. Lärandemoment löper parallellt med lekfullhet som ska öka elevens motivation och engagemang. Konceptet syftar på att vara ett samarbete mellan lokala medier och elever.

Public memory of "the Asylum" in contemporary American culture is communicated through a host of popular forms, including horror-themed entertainment such as haunted attractions. Such representations have drawn criticism from disability advocates on the basis that they perpetuate stereotypes and inaccurately represent the history of deinstitutionalization in the United States. In 2010, when Pennhurst State School and Hospital, a closed Pennsylvania institution that housed people understood as developmentally/intellectually disabled, was reused as a haunted attraction called "Pennhurst Asylum," it sparked a public debate and became an occasion for storytelling about what Pennhurst meant to the surrounding community. I apply theoretical perspectives from memory studies and disability studies to the case of "Pennhurst Asylum" in order to understand what is at stake when we remember institutional spaces such as Pennhurst. More specifically, this case study uses narrative analysis of news stories and reader letters, ethnographic observation at the haunted attraction, interviews with key storymakers, and historical/cultural contextualization to examine why this memory matters to disability advocates, former institutional residents and employees, journalists, and other community members. The narrative patterns I identify have ramifications for contemporary disability politics, the role of public communication in the formation of community memory, and scholarly debates over how to approach popular representations of historical trauma. I find that Pennhurst memory fits within contemporary patterns in the narrative, visual, and physical reuse of institutional spaces in the United States, which include redevelopment, memorialization, digital and crowd-sourced memory, amateur photography, Hollywood films, paranormal cable television shows, and tourism. Further, this reuse of institutional spaces has been an occasion for local journalists to take on the role of public historian in the absence of other available authorities. In this case study, the local newspaper (The Mercury) became a space where processes of commemoration could unfold through narrative--and, it created a record of this process that could inform future public history projects on institutionalization in the United States. In the terms of cultural geographer Kenneth Foote (1997), disability advocates attempted to achieve "sanctification" of the Pennhurst property by telling the story of its closure as a symbol of social progress that led to the community-based living movement. Paradoxically, since this version of the Pennhurst story relied on a narrow characterization of Pennhurst as a site of horrific abuse and neglect, it had this in common with the legend perpetuated by the haunted attraction. In contrast, other community members shared memories that showed Pennhurst had long been a symbol of the community's goodwill, service, and genuine caring. In short, public memory of Pennhurst in 2010 was controversial, in part, because the institution's closing in 1987 had itself been controversial. Many still believed it should never have been closed and were thus resistant to the idea of sanctifying its story as an example for future change. When the State abandoned the Pennhurst campus, it left an authority vacuum at a site about which there was still as much public curiosity as there had been when it first opened in 1908. Indeed, this easily claimed authority is part of what "Pennhurst Asylum" is selling. Its mix of fact and fiction offers visitors the pleasure of uncertainty and active detective work--something usually missing at traditional historic sites. Visitors get to touch a mostly unspecified, but nonetheless "real" past mediated by an abundance of historical and contemporary public communication that all attach an aura to Pennhurst as a place where horrific events happened. Rather than suggesting historical amnesia, the strategic fictionalizations made to create the Pennhurst legend show exactly what is remembered about "the Asylum." The legend distances the story away from American history and sets it in a deeper past beyond most living memory. From my observation at the haunted attraction, it appears that the problem isn't that the American public has forgotten "the Asylum"; it may be that we remember too well. Overall, the relationship between institutions and their communities is one of intractable complicity, ensuring that the public memory of "the Asylum" will continue to be deeply fraught. News archives show that for decades local newspapers reported on adverse events at Pennhurst including fire, disease outbreak, accidental death, violence, criminal activity, and a series of State and Federal probes into mismanagement and abuse. This is especially significant because the power structures that allowed the institution to function remain mostly intact. Indeed, the "Pennhurst Asylum" relies not only on our previous knowledge of Pennhurst and the mythic figure of "the Asylum;" it also relies on our fear of medical authority, bodily difference, and most of all, our collective vulnerability to the social mechanisms that continue to define and separate the "normal" and the "abnormal." Even among disability advocates, the act of remembering threatens to recreate the hierarchy of the institution. Some of the same people who had authority at Pennhurst continue to have the authority to tell its story today. Finally, the usefulness of the ghost story as a memory genre reflects both rapid change and surprising stagnation in the role of institutionalization in the United States. / Media & Communication

Esta tese se interessa por compreender como os conglomerados midiáticos regionais participam da territorialização do capital, no interior do Brasil, e como tais organizações racionalizam o trabalho no processo produtivo. Para tanto, foi realizado o estudo de dois conglomerados regionais, sendo um detentor de outorga de tv comercial e outro de tv educativa, localizados na cidade de Divinópolis, na região Centro-oeste de Minas Gerais. Como método de pesquisa, foram realizadas \"escavações\" de dados sobre os conglomerados e seus grupos políticos e econômicos, para conhecer seu território de atuação. A fim de compreender o processo de racionalização do trabalho, foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com trabalhadores locais que trabalharam nas duas tvs ligadas aos conglomerados. Concluímos que os meios de comunicação são meios de produção que cumprem papel de agentes discursivos e econômicos. No processo de territorialização dos conglomerados, vários preceitos constitucionais e regulamentações da comunicação são desrespeitados, por meio de manobras jurídicas dos grupos. Os trabalhadores participam da territorialização do capital no exercício de sua atividade e ao ressignificarem os valores neoliberais da cultura organizacional dos grupos de mídia. No processo produtivo, não há diferenças entre os conteúdos produzidos entre tv comercial e tv educativa. Ambas se orientam pelo padrão estético produtivo do Grupo Globo. O jornalismo local não faz investigação e a lógica comercial dos grupos participa do produto jornalístico ofertado na região. A concentração de mídias de ambos conglomerados é um instrumento de monopólio da fala que isola o município, impede vozes contestadoras, bloqueia o desenvolvimento do mercado local da comunicação e participa da precarização do trabalho. As articulações políticas e econômicas dos grupos mantêm o sistema de reciprocidade do coronelismo eletrônico, pelo qual há trocas de favores entre radiodifusores e representantes políticos. / This thesis is interested in understanding how the regional media conglomerates participate in the territorialization of capital, in territories far from the main Brazilian urban centers, and how these organizations rationalize the work in the productive process. For this, two regional conglomerates were investigated: one, holder of concession of commercial TV and another, of educational TV, in Divinópolis, Center-west of Minas Gerais. As a research method, data \"excavations\" were carried out on the conglomerates and their political and economic groups, in order to know their territory of action. In order to understand the work rationalization process, semi-structured interviews were conducted with TV workers. We conclude that the media are means of production that fulfill the role of discursive and economic agents. In the process of territorialization of the conglomerates, several constitutional precepts and regulations of the communication are disrespected, by legal maneuvers of the groups. The workers participate in the territorialization of capital in the exercise of their activity and in re-signifying the neoliberal values in the organizational culture of the media groups. In the productive process, there are no differences between the contents produced between commercial TV and educational TV. Both are guided by the productive aesthetic standard of Grupo Globo, the main Brazilian communication group. Local journalism does not do research and the commercial logic of the groups participates in the journalistic product offered in the region. The media concentration of both conglomerates is an instrument to prevent discordant discourses, which isolates the municipality, blocks the development of the local communication market and fosters poor working conditions. The political and economic articulations of the groups maintain the system of reciprocity of the phenomenon called electronic \"coronelismo\", for which there are exchanges of favors between broadcasters and political representatives.

This study aims to gain greater knowledge about the use of framing in local sports journalism. We did this by doing a qualitative content analysis of the local Swedish newspaper Barometern/OT and it’s coverage of the largest local football team, Kalmar FF. We randomly selected six of the team’s games during 2014 and analysed all the texts that had to do with the games, except for shorter texts and texts that are supposed to be based on personal opinions, such as chronicles. The results show that Barometern/OT have a tendency of defending individual players and giving them positive criticism, while they much more often give negative criticism to the team as a whole. Also, we found signs that Barometern/OT contributed to creating a local imagined community by having a incomplete use of names at a few times, amongst other factors. Because of these observations we noticed that the editorial staff both contributed to creating a local imagined community and that they were a part of it themselves.

This study ”What’s does the local news contain? - an analysis of a week’s local journalism on the web in Västerbotten, Sweden” examines the different discourses in the local journalism of newspapers and public service media. The aim is to find what makes the local news with the use of a quantitative content analysis combined with a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).The study uses a theoretical framework that includes theories surrounding agenda setting, the power of the media, local journalism, news values and web based journalism. For the quantitative content analysis the online text tool Textometrica was used.The analysis found that the local news mainly consisted of news regarding sports and negative news such as crime, accidents and court cases. It also found that the local news mainly focused on a small part of the municipality of Västerbotten in its news coverage, where the biggest city in the region was of the most interest. When other parts were covered it was mostly for sport events or negative news. The qualitative analysis also found that there was a high frequency of updates on the websites and non-local news that made it into the local news due to being sensational. A difference between the newspapers and the public service media was also found where the papers focused more on local debates and public service media wasn’t as tied to earlier theories regarding news values.The study could also state that the content of the local media during the week differed from what is said to be good journalism and also what is said to be the journalistic responsibility that citizens rely on to make democratic decisions.

Detta är en jämförande studie om medierepresentationen av oljekrisen i Stavanger i Norge och Aberdeen i Skottland. I uppsatsens första del undersöker och jämför vi tre nyhetsartiklar från norska lokala tidningar i Stavanger med tre skotska lokala tidningar i Aberdeen genom en kvalitativ textanalys. I uppsatsens andra del lägger vi tyngd på journalisternas uppfattning om krissituationen och använder oss av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Genom kvalitativa intervjuer med norska och skotska journalister jämför vi hur de resonerar kring val av vinklar, nyheter, källor och hur de upplever sitt yrke och sin arbetsroll i relation till rapporteringen av oljekrisen. I arbetet lyfter vi fram skillnader i framställningen av situationen i Stavanger respektive Aberdeen. Vi använder oss av en etnografisk intervju i vårt tillvägagångssätt när vi träffar journalisterna, för att kunna använda detta som en ingång till historisk bakgrund för effekterna av oljekrisen och påverkan på städerna. En utgångspunkt för uppsatsen är att undvika att bedöma huruvida det rör sig om en kris eller inte och istället fokusera på gestaltningen i de valda medierna och journalisternas upplevelser av sitt arbete. Resultatet av vår studie visar att det finns nationella samband med hur journalisterna uppfattar oljekrisen. De norska journalisterna mörkar i högre utsträckning att det pågått en omfattande oljekris i Stavanger, medan de skotska journalisterna talar mer öppet om en kris. Vi kan genom denna studie konstatera att det återfinns skillnader i hur den lokala rapporteringen för oljekris sker, samt hur gestaltningen av oljekrisens konsekvenser ser ut i artiklarna som vi har valt att analysera.

Our focus in this study was to examine how Piteå-Tidningen produced Kaj Linna, the man who was accused and later convicted for murder. In addition to the frames we could distinguish about the perpetrator we also examined the small community, Kalamark, were the murder occured. In the next step of our analysis we examined how he was produced when he was declared innocent. We did this by applying a framing-analysis on 35 articles from Piteå-tidningen that covered the events that occured 2004 and 2017.   The frames we could identify from Piteå-Tidningen that described Kaj Linna 2004 was as an odd man, a man without no stable income and a man with money as his motivitaton. The community was framed as the victims, who stood together in sorrow and in despair. Kaj Linna got excluded and the community of Kalamark got included in the frames we identified.   The turning point in 2017, when Kaj Linna was declared innocent and was set to become a free man the frames changed. He was framed as a family man, a man with feelings that had people caring about him. Like a man who was one of us. He was included in 2017. The frames about the community in 2017 was hard to find as the focus of reporting about the case exclusively was about Kaj Linna.

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A moment that Charron and Bonville (2016) consider a paradigmatic transition from information journalism to communication one. After the popularization of the Internet, there is a definition lack of journalism place. In addition, there is no knowledge about how to finance journalistic practices. It is believed, according to Charaudeau (2015), that the media maintains a space of citizenship essential for democracy. Thus, it is investigated how this commitment to offer quality information remains active in the face of the challenges with which newspapers live in the network society. To do so, the research was developed between 2016 and 2018, with three specific periods of data collection: August 21 to 24, October 25 to 31 and November 6 to 12, all in 2017. In the analysis, it is possible to perceive that the practices adopted for the printed version of the journal have more traditional characteristics and are directly related to the legitimating discourse of journalism, while the practices adopted for the online version show less commitment with ideas of public interest and citizenship, presenting subjects in a hurried and incomplete way, which reduces the reliability and credibility of the media, as well as diminishing the true effect of the journalism practiced. We can see the distance between the two points of the interface analyzed, with the predisposition of the digital newspaper to "sensationalism" and the nonthematic focus on the "exercise of power" in the printed version. It attends to the public interest in subjects, but not in deepening and contextualization, which occurs to the detriment of the quality of the newspaper and impedes the access of the reader to information that helps in the process of construction of reality and in the capacity to self-govern socially and politically. / A partir da intenção de compreender como se configura o jornalismo regional em sua interface impresso e on-line no que concerne à qualidade das notícias e ao interesse público, esta pesquisa estabelece uma análise semiodiscursiva do jornal goiano O Popular, considerando suas versões física e digital. O estudo parte da perspectiva de que o jornalismo se relaciona com ideias de verdade, interesse público e cidadania e se justifica pela limitada bibliografia existente sobre o jornalismo regional e necessidade urgente de compreender as práticas adotadas pelos jornais no momento transitório em que vivem. Um momento que Charron e Bonville (2016) consideram ser de transição paradigmática, do jornalismo de informação para o de comunicação. Com a popularização da internet, há uma indefinição de qual o lugar reservado à prática jornalística e sobre como financiar esse serviço. Acredita-se, conforme Charaudeau (2015), que as mídias mantêm um espaço de cidadania imprescindível para a democracia. Assim, investiga-se o quanto esse compromisso de oferecer informação de qualidade segue atuante frente aos desafios com os quais os jornais convivem na sociedade em rede. Para tanto, o desenvolvimento da pesquisa foi elaborado entre 2016 e 2018, com três períodos específicos de coleta de dados: 21 a 24 de agosto, 25 a 31 de outubro e 6 a 12 de novembro, todos em 2017. Na análise, torna-se possível perceber que as práticas adotadas para a versão impressa do jornal têm características mais tradicionais e diretamente relacionadas ao discurso legitimador do jornalismo, enquanto as práticas adotadas para a versão on-line demonstram menor comprometimento com as ideias de interesse público e cidadania, apresentando matérias de forma apressada e incompleta, o que reduz a confiabilidade e a credibilidade do veículo, assim como diminui o efeito de verdade do jornalismo praticado. Constata-se o distanciamento dos dois pontos da interface analisada, com a predisposição do jornal digital ao “sensacionalismo” e o enfoque não-temático no “exercício do poder” na versão impressa. Atende-se ao interesse público em assuntos, mas não em aprofundamento e contextualização, o que ocorre em detrimento da qualidade do jornal e prejudica o acesso do público-leitor à informação que o auxilie no processo de construção da realidade e na capacidade de se autogovernar social e politicamente.

Med avstamp i dagens medielandskap och med tanke på att dagstidningar dragit ned på journalister och särskilt journalister på lokalredaktioner de senaste tio till femton åren, så har syftet med den här uppsatsen varit att studera hur de kvarvarande lokalredaktörerna i Västerbottens inland ser på sin roll, vad som driver dem samt vilka utmaningar och möjligheter de har i sitt arbetsliv på daglig basis. Kvalitativa intervjuer gjordes med alla sju lokalredaktörer som just nu arbetar i Västerbottens inland och sedan analyserades deras uttalanden genom teorier kopplade till lokala medier och demokrati, ett medielandskap i förändring samt yrkesroll och identitet. Studien visar att lokalredaktörsrollen är komplex med flera motsägelser. Deras ideal och ambitioner hamnar i konflikt med deras faktiska arbetssituation. Medan de drivs av starka demokratiska ideal i sitt arbete, så känner de att de inte har tillräckligt med tid för att göra grävande journalistik eftersom mycket av deras tid går åt att bevaka minst två kommuner var. De uttrycker också att den kommun där de inte bor inte får lika mycket bevakning som de skulle vilja och att den blir något bortglömd, hamnar i medieskugga. Flera av lokalredaktörerna är välkända på den plats de bor och jobbar och vissa människor känner en stark koppling till tidningen på grund av dem. Många av dem har också svårt att gå ur sin roll när de är lediga. Samtidigt så uttrycker lokalredaktörerna att de inte har samma kontakt med läsarna som tidigare. De är nära, men samtidigt distanserade från sina läsare. / Based on the current situation in the media and the fact that newspapers have cut down on journalists over the last ten to fifteen years, especially those located in small, remote areas, the main purpose of this thesis was to study how all the remaining local editors in rural Västerbotten think of their role and what their driving forces are as well as what challenges and opportunities they face in their everyday work life. Qualitative interviews were conducted with all the seven local editors who currently work in rural Västerbotten and then analyzed through theories of local journalism and democracy, a media landscape in constant change, journalistic profession and identity. The results showed that their role is complex and has plenty of contradictions. Their driving forces and ambitions conflict with their work situation. While they are driven by high democratic standards in their work, they feel that they don’t have enough time for investigative journalism as a lot of their time goes to reporting from at least two municipalities each. They also express that the one municipality where they don’t live doesn’t get as much coverage as they would like and is somewhat forgotten. A lot of them are well known in the place where they live and work and some people feel a close connection to the newspaper because of them. Many of them also have difficulties stepping out of their role in their spare time. At the same time, they express that they don’t have the same contact with readers like they used to. They are close but at the same time distanced from their readers.

With the development of digital media, cooperation and communication with the audience has become a common practice of media organizations at the national and regional levels. Consumers of media content are now much more involved in working with media content, which they not only change and edit, but also help create. Gradually, the boundaries between the author and the audience are blurred. This diploma thesis deals with user-generated content in selected regional media in the Ústí nad Labem region. Specifically, it examines the use of user-generated content in the regional newsroom of Czech Television in Ústí nad Labem, in Děčínský deník and Mladá fronta Dnes Severní Čechy. The theoretical part brings the field context of changes in journalism with the advent of digital media and their impact on traditional journalism. Furthermore, the phenomenon of user-generated content, its definitions and specific examples from foreign and domestic television and print media are introduced. Using semi-structured interviews and quantitative content analysis, it describes and offers a detailed description of the work of selected regional media with user-generated content. The aim of the diploma thesis is to describe the state, method of processing and content of UGC in three selected regional media in the Ústí...