Abstract The general purpose of this study is to look at what four different Swedish newspapers reported about the Berlin walls fall. The newspapers chosen for the study are Ny Dag, Arbetet, Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter. The method used is a qualitative method while analyzing newspaper materials. This is accomplished by using four different questions. What was the reaction? What was the predicted future? How the magazines opinion is shown through their general ideological believes? Was the Berlin walls fall viewed as a threat? The general reaction was a euphoric feeling and a new time for Europe. The future talks centered on the uniting of the two Germanys and why this should or shouldn’t happen. The political messages were different in every newspaper. Svenska Dagbladet went hard against communism while Ny Dag defended it. Arbetets reporting was milder and Dagens Nyheter tried to play both sides. The newspapers did report about a threat perspective and it was about the relationship between superpowers and the impending question about immigrants from DDR. The threat perspective was lowering while a peace perspective was rising.

The following paper is a study about how three Swedish workingclass news papers, Arbetet, Norrskensflamman and Ny Dag, describe and stigmatized the common strike braker in may 1931. I chose in particulary this month because of the tradgic events in Ådalen 14th of may 1931, where five citizens got killed by the Swedish military during a friendly demonstration and the strike braker was a part the unrest that was embossed among the organized workers in Sweden.

The purpose of this study is to examine four Swedish newspapers' views on the Nazi regime in Germany during the 1930's, and examine what information the Swedish public received through their reporting about the Berlin Olympics in 1936. The survey method of the study examines four Swedish newspapers with different political views, and how they described the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany in 1936 during the Nazi Germany regime.   The theoretical perspective used in the study is the agenda setting theory, where the focus is on how the Olympic Games were depicted in the Swedish press against the agenda setting theory.   The results show the difference in reporting about the Berlin Olympics, based on the newspaper's views of the Nazi Germany regime. Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet show a positive attitude toward Nazi Germany, while Ny Dag shows great displeasure toward the Nazi Germany regime. Arbetet shows, like Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet, a relatively positive attitude toward Nazi Germany, even though the newspaper sometimes expressed criticism directed against Hitler and his regime.

År 1935 invaderar Italien under ledning av Benito Mussolini Etiopien, på den tiden kallat Abessinien. Kriget föregicks av en lång tids mobilisering och debatt, både i omvärlden och i Sverige. Den här uppsatsen handlar om hur tidningarna Ny Dag och Folkets Dagblad påverkades av Sovjetunionens politik gentemot Abessinienkrisen 1935 i deras egna ställningstaganden i Abessinienkrisen, samt hur det påverkade deras syn på antikrigsdemonstrationer i Sverige. Ny Dag var partitidning för Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti och Folkets Dagblad för Socialistiska Partiet. Källmaterialet i denna uppsats består av bevarade upplagor ifrån Ny Dag och Folkets Dagblad som finns i Kungliga bibliotekets mediearkiv. Undersökningen är uppdelad i två tidsperioder, mellan januari-juli 1935 samt juli-oktober 1935. Detta för att Kominterns kongress äger rum i augusti 1935 samt att kriget bryter ut i oktober. Även om båda tidningarna var motståndare till Italiens invasion av Abessinien visar resultatet av denna undersökning på att det rådde stora motsättningar mellan tidningarna om hur antikrigsarbetet skulle föras, samt att tidningarnas relationer till Sovjetunionen i hög grad präglade tidningarnas ställningstaganden. Detta var extra tydligt efter Kominterns 7:e kongress i augusti 1935, då tidningarna upptog en bitter och intensiv rivalitet gentemot varandra kring Abessinienfrågan. Medan Ny Dag i stort sett var helt eniga med Kominterns riktlinjer gällande Abessinienkrisen och på vilket sätt antikrigsarbetet skulle föras, ställde sig Folkets Dagblad skarpt kritiskt till Komintern och Ny Dag i dessa frågor. Ämnen som tidningarna kom att vara oense om var Sovjetunionens roll i Abessinienkrisen, Nationernas Förbunds roll samt Sveriges roll och hur antikrigsrörelsen i Sverige skulle mobiliseras.