This report first explores the changes journalism is experiencing since the advent of the Internet in a broad manner. Second, and more specifically, it aims to shed more light on the mechanisms that are used by the very diverse Austin-area range of outlets and journalistic corporations, and the way they are embracing and adopting new technologies. To that end, it also tries to analyze the current Austin media ecosystem in depth, focusing on some of the most representative local media outlets and interviewing some of the more relevant personalities that are making all of these changes feasible. / text

A pesquisa tem como objetivo mapear experiências de comunicação local em São Paulo, ou seja, veículos comunitários e jornais de bairro, e analisar sua atuação nos territórios em que estão inseridos. Para isso, foi realizado um levantamento técnico e duas análises de conteúdo dos veículos selecionados. Como resultado, nota-se que os veículos comunitários não são apenas um fenômeno dos anos 1970 e que os coletivos que atuam com comunicação na cidade não são necessariamente ligados a movimentos sociais, associações de moradores ou ONGs. Além disso, não têm participação popular ampla, ainda que haja moradores na gestão e redação/ produção de conteúdo, especialmente de jovens ativistas de comunicação. Possuem também grande envolvimento com as redes digitais, sites e blogs. Em relação aos jornais de bairro, estes não estão migrando para o meio digital. Ainda que possuam sites e versão online, os impressos continuam sendo um fenômeno importante nos territórios. Há o surgimento de novos formatos, como os portais online de bairro, com novas lógicas envolvendo a publicidade e a participação de leitores e de jornalistas. Não possuem conteúdo meramente informativo, mas também trabalham com pautas que incentivam a mobilização popular, em parte com valores conservadores. Conclui-se que, apesar das diferenças entre eles, os veículos de comunicação locais vêm atuando como canais com relevante discussão política, desafiam a crise do impresso e reinventam as formas de se fazer comunicação local, o que demonstra a necessidade de mais estudos sobre a produção e a recepção dos mesmos / The research aims to map experiences of local communication in São Paulo, that is, communitarian media and local newspapers, and analyze their performance in the territories in which they are inserted. For this, a technical survey and two content analyzes of the selected media were carried out. As a result, it is noted that communitarian media are not a phenomenon of the 1970s and that communication groups in the city are not necessarily linked to social movements, neighborhood associations or NGOs. They do not have wide popular participation, although there are residents in the management and writing / production of content, especially of young communication activists and have a great involvement with digital networks, websites and blogs. In relation to the local newspapers these are not migrating to the digital medium. Although they have sites and digital version, the printed ones continue with force in the territories. There are new formats, such as local online portals, with new logics involving advertising, the participation of readers and journalists. They do not have merely informative content, but also work with guidelines that encourage popular mobilization and informal education, in part with conservative values. It is concluded that, despite the differences between them, the local media have been acting as local channels with relevant political discussion, defying the printing crisis and reinventing the ways of doing local communication, which demonstrates the need for further studies on their production and reception

This thesis explores how the local media in East Anglia portrayed the US military presence during the Cold War at times of international crisis. It aims to assess this portrayal in comparison with national media images and critically interrogates the socio-political, economic and cultural reasons for it. This media related study contributes to Cold War historiography and the historiography of the USAF. Research was mainly archival, based on discourse analysis and comparative focusing on the official discourse of the Cold War and the news media. Central to the research were the written records of the British government and articles in appropriate newspapers issued near American airbases. The region of East Anglia was selected for its strategic location and large number of military bases, and data collection focused on selected periods of international crisis due to their impact on media coverage. The examination of newspaper articles identified a wide range of images with some recurring from time to time while others remain specific to certain periods. Findings suggest that local economic as well as political interests played a role in shaping the images of the US presence in the local media, and it could be argued that there is a correlation between the conservative landscape of the region and the newspaper articles’ overwhelming tolerance or at least acceptance of the US presence, which is in line with conservative governmental discourse in all periods of crisis explored. However, the articles – and in particular the readers’ letters to the editors – also highlight that there were strong debates between supporters and opponents of the American presence, and this debate blurs the boundaries of political parties, i.e. in certain periods there are also strong opponents in the conservative camp.

A pesquisa tem como objetivo mapear experiências de comunicação local em São Paulo, ou seja, veículos comunitários e jornais de bairro, e analisar sua atuação nos territórios em que estão inseridos. Para isso, foi realizado um levantamento técnico e duas análises de conteúdo dos veículos selecionados. Como resultado, nota-se que os veículos comunitários não são apenas um fenômeno dos anos 1970 e que os coletivos que atuam com comunicação na cidade não são necessariamente ligados a movimentos sociais, associações de moradores ou ONGs. Além disso, não têm participação popular ampla, ainda que haja moradores na gestão e redação/ produção de conteúdo, especialmente de jovens ativistas de comunicação. Possuem também grande envolvimento com as redes digitais, sites e blogs. Em relação aos jornais de bairro, estes não estão migrando para o meio digital. Ainda que possuam sites e versão online, os impressos continuam sendo um fenômeno importante nos territórios. Há o surgimento de novos formatos, como os portais online de bairro, com novas lógicas envolvendo a publicidade e a participação de leitores e de jornalistas. Não possuem conteúdo meramente informativo, mas também trabalham com pautas que incentivam a mobilização popular, em parte com valores conservadores. Conclui-se que, apesar das diferenças entre eles, os veículos de comunicação locais vêm atuando como canais com relevante discussão política, desafiam a crise do impresso e reinventam as formas de se fazer comunicação local, o que demonstra a necessidade de mais estudos sobre a produção e a recepção dos mesmos / The research aims to map experiences of local communication in São Paulo, that is, communitarian media and local newspapers, and analyze their performance in the territories in which they are inserted. For this, a technical survey and two content analyzes of the selected media were carried out. As a result, it is noted that communitarian media are not a phenomenon of the 1970s and that communication groups in the city are not necessarily linked to social movements, neighborhood associations or NGOs. They do not have wide popular participation, although there are residents in the management and writing / production of content, especially of young communication activists and have a great involvement with digital networks, websites and blogs. In relation to the local newspapers these are not migrating to the digital medium. Although they have sites and digital version, the printed ones continue with force in the territories. There are new formats, such as local online portals, with new logics involving advertising, the participation of readers and journalists. They do not have merely informative content, but also work with guidelines that encourage popular mobilization and informal education, in part with conservative values. It is concluded that, despite the differences between them, the local media have been acting as local channels with relevant political discussion, defying the printing crisis and reinventing the ways of doing local communication, which demonstrates the need for further studies on their production and reception

Research question: What role does media play in that xenophobic political parties becomes successful or not? Cohan explains it as:“The press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about.”    According to this, researchers argue that media creates a supply factor by merely bring attention to certain phenomenon. To this background, it is reasonable to suspect that media, merely bringing attention to the Sweden Democrats, has brought visibility anf attention to the party that could be essential for the Sweden Democrats success. research question for this study is: How does the local media-coverage of the Sweden Democrats have a role in the party’s success, in a municipality where the party is successful compared to a municipality where the political support is weaker?  Purpose: The purpose of this study is, before the elections for the municipal council in 1998, 2002 and 2006, systematically review the local press media-coverage of the Sweden Democrats in Karlskrona, a municipality where the Sweden Democrats are successful and Växjö, a municipality where the party is not as much successful.   Method: To fulfill my purpose of this study, I studied all articles concerning the Sweden Democrats before a few months before the elections of 1998, 2002 and 2006 in Smålandsposten and Blekinge Läns Tidning. The articles were then reviewed systematically and then later categorized through certain categories. This contributed to what had been written about the Sweden Democrats. Conclusions: The hypothesis that media, unaware, has created a foundation for the success of the Sweden Democrats has been confirmed to some extent in this study. The media coverage the Sweden Democrats was not as frequent as it was when the party began to have political success. Local media’s focus in their articles about the Sweden Democrats differs from a strong municipality for the Sweden Democrats to a municipality with weaker support..    This study has also shown that in municipalities that have weak support for the Sweden Democrats tend to stigmatize the party more than in a municipality that is strong for the Sweden Democrats. However as this study has shown is that stigmatization of the Sweden Democrats has not slown down their success. Quite the opposite, it has gained their success

Det svenska väljarbeteendet har förändrats med åren. Allt fler byter mellan olika partier och beslutet för vart rösten hamnar tas allt senare in i valrörelsen. Medierna är medborgarnas främsta källa till information och den lokala dagstidningen är den källa som flest människor använder sig av. Då orienteringsbehovet är som störst bland medborgarna, som i samband med val, ökar mediernas makt att påverka. I denna studie var syftet att undersöka hur lokala medier gestaltar den politiska rapporteringen i samband med valrörelser, hur det journalistiska förhållningssättet såg ut och om det skett någon förändring över tid. Studien har genomförts med en kvantitativ innehållsanalys på landsortstidningarna Östgöta Correspondenten och Nya Wermlands-Tidningen med material från de två sista veckorna vid valrörelserna 2002 och 2010. Resultatet visade att det är den sakpolitiska gestaltningen och det beskrivande journalistiska förhållningssättet som dominerar den lokala politiska rapporteringen. Den spelgestaltade journalistiken ökade något mellan åren men annars var skillnaderna inte speciellt stora. / The Swedish electoral behavior has changed over the years. An increasing number of people switch between different parties and the decision for each vote is taken later and later into the election campaign. The media is the main source of information for the citizens, and the local newspaper is the source that most people use. When the need of orientation is strong among the citizens, like during the election, medias power to influence increases. In this study the purpose was to investigate how the local media framing political news during election campaigns, how the journalistic approach looked like and if there was any changes over time. The study was conducted by a quantitative content analysis of the provincial newspapers Östgöta Correspondenten and Nya Wermlands-Tidningen with material from the last two weeks of the election campaign in 2002 and 2010. The results showed that it is the issue oriented framing and the descriptive journalistic approach that dominates the local political reporting. The game framed journalism increased slightly between years, but otherwise the differences were not very large.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the environments and survival strategies of local media from the aspect of management. China Daily News and Taiwan News are chosen for case study because they are representative of local newspaper in urban areas in Taiwan. The results show that these two Newspaper possess three core competitive forces: history, cross marketing and newsroom strategies, and the superior delivery of local news. With regard to history, these two presses were the only press issued locally from their time of establishment to their time of growth and still remain to be so. As to cross marketing and newsroom strategies, their owners highly emphasize the necessity of adopting these strategies which contribute to the success and vitality of the press. Finally, the quality and quantity of the local news they cover and deliver are also unbeatable by any other media. To survive in the future, local newspaper are advised to adopt the following strategies: (1) to have sufficient capital, (2) to perform market and cost analyses for the purpose of fixing the prices of newspaper and advertisement, (3) to invest on the development of human resources, (4) to evaluate changes in the market, (5) to find a niche and have a clear share in the market, (6) to produce local news that are superior in quality and quantity, (7) to adopt cross marketing and newsroom strategies, (8) to have value chain deconstructed and executed externally. Vertical and horizontal integration, as well as diversification of business are essential as well. For new local newspaper, there is a small chance of success because the success of a local newspaper depends on the acceptance and recognition of local people. It takes time for local people to grow into the habit of reading a particular newspaper. Even if the newcomers are run in the best form of business, success is still uneasy. The competition is keener in those urban areas where local newspaper are already present.

<h1><strong> </strong></h1><p> </p><p>Research question: What role does media play in that xenophobic political parties becomes successful or not? Cohan explains it as:“The press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about.”    According to this, researchers argue that media creates a supply factor by merely bring attention to certain phenomenon. To this background, it is reasonable to suspect that media, merely bringing attention to the Sweden Democrats, has brought visibility anf attention to the party that could be essential for the Sweden Democrats success. research question for this study is: How does the local media-coverage of the Sweden Democrats have a role in the party’s success, in a municipality where the party is successful compared to a municipality where the political support is weaker? </p><p><strong>Purpose:</strong> The purpose of this study is, before the elections for the municipal council in 1998, 2002 and 2006, systematically review the local press media-coverage of the Sweden Democrats in Karlskrona, a municipality where the Sweden Democrats are successful and Växjö, a municipality where the party is not as much successful. </p><p> <strong>Method:</strong> To fulfill my purpose of this study, I studied all articles concerning the Sweden Democrats before a few months before the elections of 1998, 2002 and 2006 in Smålandsposten and Blekinge Läns Tidning. The articles were then reviewed systematically and then later categorized through certain categories. This contributed to what had been written about the Sweden Democrats.</p><p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> The hypothesis that media, unaware, has created a foundation for the success of the Sweden Democrats has been confirmed to some extent in this study. The media coverage the Sweden Democrats was not as frequent as it was when the party began to have political success. Local media’s focus in their articles about the Sweden Democrats differs from a strong municipality for the Sweden Democrats to a municipality with weaker support..    This study has also shown that in municipalities that have weak support for the Sweden Democrats tend to stigmatize<strong> </strong>the party more than in a municipality that is strong for the Sweden Democrats. However as this study has shown is that stigmatization of the Sweden Democrats has not slown down their success. Quite the opposite, it has gained their success</p><h1><p> </p></h1>

Šių dienų žiniasklaidos raidai labiau nei bet kada anksčiau lemiamos įtakos turi technologiniai pasiekimai – naujienų perdavimas auditorijai tampa vis greitesnis ir prieinamesnis, todėl keičiasi ir pats naujienų turinys bei jo kokybė. Interneto plėtra ir skaitmenizacija žiniasklaidai kelia tam tikrų iššūkių – labai svarbu ne tik kuo objektyviau perteikti informaciją, tačiau tą būtina padaryti ir kaip įmanoma įdomiau bei kokybiškiau, panaudojant kuo įvairesnes raiškos formas: straipsnius, nuotraukas, vaizdo medžiagą. Pastebima, kad šiandien prie šiuolaikinės auditorijos (ypatingai jaunesnės kartos) poreikių greičiausiai prisitaikančių medijų galima laikyti interneto naujienų portalus. Šalia to, kaip pastebi įvairių šalių mokslininkai, naujienų gamyba tiek pasauliniu, tiek lokaliu mastu vienodėja, tampa paklūstanti besikeičiančioms sąlygoms bei naujiems auditorijų poreikiams. Komunikacijos technologijos ir prieiga prie tarptautinių naujienų agentūrų rengiamų žinučių sudaro galimybes lengviau ir greičiau jas perimti ir paskleisti lokalioms auditorijoms. Visgi kaip rodo įvairūs tyrimai, auditorija vis dar renkasi naujienas, atsižvelgdama į artumo kriterijų, todėl globalėjančiame pasaulyje negalima pamiršti ir lokalių vietovių išskirtinumų. Vietinių naujienų patrauklumą lemia bendruomenei priimtinos kultūrinės, socialinės, politinės ir kt. normos, todėl didelį vaidmenį miestuose, rajonuose bei gyvenvietėse atlieka regioninė žiniasklaida, kuri skelbia naujienas, susijusias su... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Technological diffusion and innovations are among the most important developments of contemporary reality that affect media businesses to a great extent. News production process is becoming faster and information is more accessible to audiences. It challenges media companies to react to changing conditions fast, to adapt to them, to deliver news as fast as possible and in various innovative formats, integrating text, visuals and audiovisuals. Studies done all over the world also show that communication and information technologies provide a better access to global information mostly produced by international news agencies. This way more and more international news appear in national media, the same information is spread all over the world making our news agendas more similar (homogeneous). However, other studies show that the proximity is still the most important news value factor for national and local audiences. Attractiveness and importance of local news is mainly determined by local cultural, social, political and other traditions and conditions. Local media, also in new interactive forms (as online news portals or social media channels) preserves its leading role in the cities and regions because it provides news that are substantial to local communities. The main aim of this study is to assess the impact and role of regional online media in Kaunas on the activism and engagement of local communities in public sphere. The basis of analysis is a qualitative focus... [to full text]

The article presents the main features of the Peruvian radio and television market, and emphasizes the levels of concentration of advertising investment, frequency control and the regulatory framework tailored to the media groups. It also analyzes the possibilities of economic sustainability, growth and modernization of much of the local and regional media in a world context characterized by accelerated technological changes, and new habits and styles of consumption of the audiences. The paper also describes some strengths and strategies deployed by local and commercial radios and television stations with social development objectives (educational and community), aimed at enabling them to stay in the market and lay the groundwork for the complex transit towards the digitalization of production and distribution of multimedia content. / Este artículo expone los principales rasgos del mercado de la radio y la televisión de señal abierta en el Perú, y hace hincapié en los niveles de concentración de la inversión publicitaria, el control de las frecuencias y el marco regulatorio hecho a la medida de los grupos mediáticos más poderosos del país. También analiza las posibilidades de sostenibilidad económica, crecimiento y modernización de buena parte de los medios locales y regionales en un contexto mundial caracterizado por acelerados cambios tecnológicos y transformaciones en los hábitos y estilos de consumo de las audiencias. Asimismo, describe algunas fortalezas y estrategias desplegadas por las radios y televisoras locales, comerciales y con objetivos de desarrollo social (educativas y comunitarias), orientadas a posibilitar su permanencia en el mercado y sentar las bases para el complejo tránsito hacia la digitalización de la producción y distribución de contenidos multimedia.