Problem definition and purpose: The media industry is a sphere faced with constant challenges. Technological inventions and economy are changing the rules of how and what media reports. To be able to stay current and make profit the newspapers have to adapt new thinking and evolve. In Sweden the journalistic union have stated that the line between editorial material and advertisement has became thinner. The purpose of this study is therefore to examine the state of three local newspapers today and the ten years back. It will examine if the occurence of what can be define as advetorial news – articles made by the newspapers own reporters but which serve and obvious profit for a second part – has increased or decreased. Method and material: To find an answer to the purpose of this thesis a quantitative content analysis have been done on a total of 1005 local news articles from three Swedish local newspapers in 2005 and 2015. Main result: The result of the content analysis shows that news defined as advetorial occur more frequently in two of the three studied news papers 2015 compared to 2005, while news defined as advetorial decreased in one of the news papers. The result also show that the total number of local news articles has decreased from 2005 to 2015.

Purpose and framing of the question: To study how Aftonbladet’s news values and news selection have changed in the last two decades. Method and material: Quantitative study in form of a coding scheme covering Aftonbladet’s front pages in the month of march of 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015. Main result: Both news selection and news value remains in the bigger perspective unchanged, indicating that the newspaper print version is rather unaffected by the change of online journalism. That in turn indicates that the gatekeeper role more or less remains the same for the print version of Aftonbladet.

News provides us with information about our world so we can make decisions about the matters that affect our daily lives—both for our personal and the public good. Television news is a pervasive force in our society, and it is important to study because of the influence it exerts on human action. But news is produced by human beings, and those human beings must make selections and rejections regarding what makes it into a newscast and what doesn’t. In addition, decisions have to be made on how to frame, present, order, word, edit, shape what news items are included. Many forces influence these decisions throughout the complex television news process. Media sociology scholars urge researchers to examine these influences at five levels: the individual, newsroom, organization, extra-organization and societal or cultural levels. This gatekeeping study examined this complex news process at work and revealed the complex set of forces that influence news decisions by news producers at CNN, a global 24-hour news network. By exposing the processes by which the news is made, one can better understand the influences that shape the end product—the news.

On February 22, 2011, Christchurch-based journalists were jolted out of their normal work routine by a large 6.3 magnitude earthquake that killed 185 people, wrecked the city and forced reporters to reappraise their journalism. This study considers how the earthquake affected journalists’ relationship to the community, their use of sources and news selection. A theory of collective trauma is used to explain the changes that journalists made to their reporting practice. Specifically, Christchurch journalists had a greater identification and attachment to their audience post-earthquake. Journalists viewed themselves as part of the earthquake story, which prompted them to view sources differently, use those sources differently and see advocacy as a keystone of their news work after the disaster. This study adds to a growing scholarship about journalists and trauma, but focuses on what the event meant for local reporters’ choice of sources and news selection rather than measuring rates of psychological distress.

This qualitative study examines news values in local journalism. The study is based on the results of five personal interviews with journalists and editors at the newspaper Nerikes Allehanda. The purpose of this paper is to examine how news values is made in the editorial process. The essay also intends to compare possible differences and similarities between news for web and printed news, the focus will consistently be locally. This will be explored through qualitative interviews with local journalists and editors. All working for the newspaper Nerikes Allehanda in Örebro.

This study examines how journalistic content can be affected when a local newspapers website changes its business model to what is commonly known as a premium paywall. This study is based upon data provided by the local newspaper Barometern. The data concerns the number of online articles included in fifteen subject and geographically defined categories. The data was collected from two three month long periods, one before and one after the introduction of the news paper paywall that was installed in October of 2014. The study finds that the total number of articles published after the introduction of the paywall was significantly higher than before but that the share of articles included in the different subject categories did not change considerably for paying readers. For non- paying readers however, the data show that the share of articles for the different subject and geographical categories changed significantly. Even though the data from this study cannot confirm a correlation, it does highlight a possible connection between media competition in different local markets and subject matters and the amount of articles that are placed behind the newspapers online paywall in that category. This means that non-paying readers in this case got access to a large number of articles included in some categories and only a small portion of articles included in some other categories. Non-paying readers not only got access to a smaller number of articles but also to a different content profile than paying readers.

Onlinetidningar har möjliggjort ett nytt sätt för publiken att interagera med nyheter. Det har dessutom skapat nya sätt för journalister att studera publikens beteende. Genom webbanalysverktyg ökar publikens möjligheter att involvera sig i skapandet av nyheter. Detta sker i takt med att det journalistiska fältet står inför en svår ekonomisk situation där en minskad läsarskara är ett faktum. Följande studie har fokuserat på att förklara och utveckla en förståelse för hur onlinejournalistiken ter sig i och med webbanalysens framväxt. Syftet är således att studera hur journalistiska normer och arbetssätt verkar i kombination med webbanalys. En fallstudie har utförts, innefattande nio intervjuer med onlinejournalister från genrerna allmännyheter, sport och kultur. Studiens resultat påvisar att onlinejournalisterna inte uppfattar webbanalys som ett nödvändigt verktyg vid nyhetsurval. Mättal genererat från webbanalys, så som antal klick och besökstrafik, används i första hand som kompletterande tolkningsvariabler. Två faktorer som bidrar till att onlinejournalister använder webbanalys inom de journalistiska fältet har identifierats: uppfattning om ekonomisk instabilitet på organisatorisk nivå samt viljan att bibehålla sin läsarkrets genom att producera sådant innehåll som läsarna efterfrågar. Dessutom har tre krafter som hämmar användningen av webbanalys påvisats: den rutinerade generationen journalisters traditionella förhållningssätt till skapandet av nyheter, en konservativ syn på nyhetsvärde och journalistens vilja att bibehålla ett gott rykte samt uppfattade kunskapsnivå stabilt. Ytterligare forskningsbidrag som studien lägger fram är att liknande framtida studier alltid bör genomföras med genrekontext i beaktande, i synnerhet bör kulturjournalistiken studeras som ett eget fält inom det journalistiska fältet. / Online newspapers have enabled a new way for the audience to interact with the news. It has also created new ways for journalists to study crowd behavior. Through web analytics increases the public's opportunities to get involved in the creation of news. In the same time the journalistic field is facing a difficult economic situation and where a reduced readership is a disturbing fact. The following study has focused on explaining and developing an understanding of how online journalism is appearing along with the emergence of web analytics. The aim with the study was to examine how journalistic standards and way of working evolve in combination with web analytics. A case study has been carried out including 9 interviews with online journalists from the genres of general news, sports and culture. The study's results demonstrate that online journalists do not see web analytics as a necessary step in the process of news selection, but it is used as a complementary interpretation variable. Two factors that contribute to online journalists use of web analytics in the journalistic field has been identified: perception of economic instability at the organizational level, as well as the desire to maintain it’s readership by writing content that the journalist are aware that the audience wants. In addition, three negative forces that inhibit the use of web analytics has been demonstrated: the older generation of journalists' traditional view on the creation of news, a conservative view on news value and the journalist willingness to maintain its credibility and perceived knowledge stable. Another contribution is that these kind of aspects can not be studied without regard to genre context, especially when it comes to the genre of culture, that should be seen as a separate field within the journalistic field.

Paywalls have quickly become a large part of the media industry and are constantly evolving. Most news media today use a form of paywall to be able to earn revenue off their content. In this study we have made a qualitative text analysis where we compared themes between COVID-19 articles behind paywalls and articles which are free to read on Aftonbladet and Expressen. By using theories concerning news value, news selection and media logic, we were able to examine what kind of themes we could find in the articles placed behind paywalls and compare that to the articles that is free to read.   The results showed that there were more differences than similarities between the content that is placed behind paywalls and the content that is free to read on Aftonbladet and Expressen. When the articles were free to read, they frequently had content that focused on the simplification of information from the authorities, calming articles where experts are not worried and articles about the individuals and their role in a crisis. For the articles that were placed behind paywalls, clickbait captions were more frequently used, probably because of a financial aspect. Most of the articles that were placed behind paywalls had a negative tone where words such as death, panic and worry were involved. According to this result, we came to the conclusion that the articles in the analyzed online newspapers have two different media logics: one for the news that is placed behind paywalls and one for the news that is free to read.

Orientador: Mauro de Souza Ventura / Resumo: O objetivo desta pesquisa foi investigar os valores-notícia adotados pelo Jornal de Londrina para lidar com questões urbanas da cidade de Londrina, como o uso e ocupação do solo, a questão ambiental e suas relações com a indústria da construção civil e o setor imobiliarista. O recorte usado foram os últimos três anos de funcionamento do jornal, que circulou entre julho de 1989 e dezembro de 2015. Esse recorte permitiu a seleção de 121 reportagens, divididas em oito temas que têm relação com essa agenda do jornal. Desses, dois temas foram escolhidos para serem analisados à luz dos valores-notícia, por se tratarem de situações mais conflituosas e que tratam de desvios legais e relevância, remetendo a dois dos valores-notícia mais importantes que aparecem desde os primeiros estudos acadêmicos sobre o jornalismo. O debate sobre os valores-notícia foi feito a partir da discussão proposta por cinco autores: Gisele Silva, Marcos Paulo da Silva, Pamela Shoemaker, Mauro Wolf e Nelson Traquina. Esses autores foram escolhidos porque suas reflexões apontam para um modelo de valores-notícia operacional e de fácil aplicação à prática cotidiana das redações. / Abstract: The objective of this research is to investigate the news values adopted by Jornal de Londrina to deal with urban issues in the city of Londrina, such as land use and occupation, the environmental issue and its relations with the construction industry and the real estate sector. The clipping used was the last three years of operation of the newspaper, which circulated between July 1989 and December 2015. This clipping allowed the selection of 121 reports, divided into eight themes that are related to this newspaper's agenda. Of these, two themes were chosen to be analyzed in the light of the news values, as they are more conflicting situations and deal with legal deviations and relevance, referring to two of the most important news values that appear since the first academic studies on the subject. journalism. The debate on news values was made based on a discussion proposed by five authors: Gisele Silva, Marcos Paulo da Silva, Pamela Shoemaker, Mauro Wolf and Nelson Traquina. These authors were chosen because their reflections point to a model of operational news values and easy to apply to the daily practice of newsrooms. / Doutor

Digitalization has made it possible to consume news through both newspapers and social media, but we rarely consider if both platforms share the same news selection. This bachelor study aims to compare which agenda Dagens Nyheter conveys through the choices in the displayed news on the front page of the newspaper and the Instagram feed. The theoretical framework is based on gatekeeping theory, agenda-setting theory and news value theory. Using the quantitative content analysis 486 news articles were coded and analyzed whereof 182 were articles from the news front page and 304 were from the Instagram feed. The results show that hard and soft news are equally represented in the two news outlets. On the other hand, the results also indicate that there are differences regarding the centralization of certain topics, the nature of the news and the main actors. From these results, we conclude that different agendas are conveyed through the news reported between the two mediums.