<p>Purpose/Aim: The purpose of this essay is to examine the ways two Swedish tabloid newspapers portray and describe the non-Socialist parties during the Swedish election of 2006.</p><p>Material/Method: We have been studying 388 articles about the non-Socialist parties, derived from the two largest tabloid newspapers in Sweden, Aftonbladet and Expressen, during the month before the election. The method for the study is quantitative content analysis.</p><p>Main results: The main conclusions drawn from this study are that Aftonbladet had twice as much written material about the non-Socialist parties, despite the fact that the paper is traditionally Socialist, while Expressen had consistently larger headlines. Both tabloids function to a higher degree as political actors than arenas for politics. The results are in accordance with earlier research, which shows that the degree of attention the non-Socialist parties acquired as a whole in the 2006 election, is remarkable. More than half of the articles in both tabloids portrayed the non-Socialist parties as a single political actor. The results indicate that both tabloids were in accordance with their respective traditional political “colours”.</p>

<p>I oktober 2004 gick Sveriges största morgontidning Dagens Nyheter över från broadsheet till tabloidformat. Syftet med denna uppsats är att kartlägga vilka förändringar som skett genom att komparera en tidsperiod innan formatbytet med en motsvarande tidsperiod efter. Jag har kombinerat två kvantitativa undersökningar med en kvalitativ. I den första kvantitativa undersökningen granskas utrymmet för bilder, annonser samt redaktionell text och om placeringen av annonserna har ändrats. I den andra kvantitativa undersökningen granskas omfattningen av utrikesmaterialet. I den kvalitativa undersökningen försöker jag komma åt eventuella förändringar av nyhetsvärderingen genom att jämföra förstasidesnyheterna innan och efter formatbytet. Mina teoretiska utgångspunkter har bland andra varit Frank Essers definitioner av tabloidisering.</p><p>Studiens resultat visar att bildmaterialet och det redaktionella materialet har ökat sedan tabloidformatets införande. Annonsmaterialet har minskat, men har samtidigt blivit mer integrerat med den redaktionella texten. Utrikesmaterialet har minskat, både vad gäller bilder och textmaterial. Det har skett en ökning av ”mjuka” nyheter, en minskning av relevanta nyheter och en ökning av triviala och sensationsbetonade nyheter i och med skiftet till tabloidformat. Slutsatsen i arbetet är att det finns tendenser till att Dagens Nyheter går mot en mer marknadsdriven journalistik och mot en kommersialisering och tabloidisering.</p>

AbstractTitle: “Heat without passion and caution without fear”: celebrity journalism and press ethics in Aftonbladet – a text analysisNumber of pages: 48Author: Moa ThorssellTutor: Martin FredrikssonCourse: Media and Communication Studies CPeriod: Fall 2009University: Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala UniversityPurppose/Aim: Analyzing how the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet writes about celebrities on a daily basis; the quality of the journalism and how they follow the press etics.Material/Method: Qualitative textual analysis of seven newsarticles about celebrities published in Aftonbladet, November 9th to November 15th 2009.Main results: Of the seven analyzed articles six could be considered as less good journalism. In the other cases, considering the journalistic ideal to have several sources, were rarely the case. Most of the articles were poorly based on facts and quotations. Sometimes the reporter had not even spoken to the person in question. The lack of information in the articles was compensated with dramatic titles and preambles. Even in the rest of the text the journalists used dramatical words to make the story bigger than it was.The articles also revealed the personal life. Around fifty percent of the articles were based on people who were difficult to define as public or private figures. Though they had participated in a reality show on tv, Aftonbladet decided to define them as celebrities. With defining them as celebrities the paper had less restrictions press ethically for what it could write. However, in reality the articles involved people who were not used to the media’s attention, but who most likely would do a lot to stay in the spotlight. Something that the media, with not following the press ethics, could easily take advantage of. But also with the person who were more easily defined as celebrities, the articles went far into the personal life.My analysis states that when it comes to news about celebrities the press ethics is less important, even though it concerns the private life of others. One also felt like it was less requirements for journalistic quality in these cases. Moreover all the articles could be classified as articles with a high news value. In conclusion a high news value did not automatically mean high quality journalism. Rather the high news value had to do with that it was articles about celebrities opening up their private life.Keywords: Celebrity journalism, public/private figure, press ethics, tabloid.

I oktober 2004 gick Sveriges största morgontidning Dagens Nyheter över från broadsheet till tabloidformat. Syftet med denna uppsats är att kartlägga vilka förändringar som skett genom att komparera en tidsperiod innan formatbytet med en motsvarande tidsperiod efter. Jag har kombinerat två kvantitativa undersökningar med en kvalitativ. I den första kvantitativa undersökningen granskas utrymmet för bilder, annonser samt redaktionell text och om placeringen av annonserna har ändrats. I den andra kvantitativa undersökningen granskas omfattningen av utrikesmaterialet. I den kvalitativa undersökningen försöker jag komma åt eventuella förändringar av nyhetsvärderingen genom att jämföra förstasidesnyheterna innan och efter formatbytet. Mina teoretiska utgångspunkter har bland andra varit Frank Essers definitioner av tabloidisering. Studiens resultat visar att bildmaterialet och det redaktionella materialet har ökat sedan tabloidformatets införande. Annonsmaterialet har minskat, men har samtidigt blivit mer integrerat med den redaktionella texten. Utrikesmaterialet har minskat, både vad gäller bilder och textmaterial. Det har skett en ökning av ”mjuka” nyheter, en minskning av relevanta nyheter och en ökning av triviala och sensationsbetonade nyheter i och med skiftet till tabloidformat. Slutsatsen i arbetet är att det finns tendenser till att Dagens Nyheter går mot en mer marknadsdriven journalistik och mot en kommersialisering och tabloidisering.

Purpose/Aim: The purpose of this essay is to examine the ways two Swedish tabloid newspapers portray and describe the non-Socialist parties during the Swedish election of 2006. Material/Method: We have been studying 388 articles about the non-Socialist parties, derived from the two largest tabloid newspapers in Sweden, Aftonbladet and Expressen, during the month before the election. The method for the study is quantitative content analysis. Main results: The main conclusions drawn from this study are that Aftonbladet had twice as much written material about the non-Socialist parties, despite the fact that the paper is traditionally Socialist, while Expressen had consistently larger headlines. Both tabloids function to a higher degree as political actors than arenas for politics. The results are in accordance with earlier research, which shows that the degree of attention the non-Socialist parties acquired as a whole in the 2006 election, is remarkable. More than half of the articles in both tabloids portrayed the non-Socialist parties as a single political actor. The results indicate that both tabloids were in accordance with their respective traditional political “colours”.

Fotbollspelaren Zlatan Ibrahimovic var 2010 och 2011 den mest omskrivna sportprofilen i svensk press och Aftonbladet och Expressen har varsin reporter på plats i Milano för att bevaka honom och hans lag AC Milan. Syftet med denna C-uppsats är att ta reda på vad sportjournalister på Aftonbladet och Expressen tror är anledningarna till att det skrivs så mycket om Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Vidare vill vi ta reda på hur de skriver om honom, varför de skriver som de gör, vilka egenskaper Zlatan Ibrahimovic har som gör att det skrivs så mycket om honom samt vad det stora fokuset på honom får för konsekvenser. I vår analys kommer vi koppla resultatet till teorier som maskulinitet inom sportjournalistiken, virvelvindseffekt och tabloidisering. Vi har gjort en kvalitativ undersökning med hjälp av halstrukturerade djupintervjuer. Totalt har vi genomfört fem intervjuer med reportrar, krönikörer och nyhetschefer på de två kvällstidningarna i Sverige. Resultatet visar att det framförallt är läsarnas engagemang i Zlatan Ibrahimovic som person och fotbollspelare som gör att tidningarna skriver om honom, inte som läsarna själva verkar tro – att hans namn på löpsedeln säljer lösnummer. En annan slutsats är att det finns en risk att tidningarna missar andra bra nyheter på grund av det stora fokuset på Zlatan Ibrahimovic. / The Swedish soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic was the most well-publicized sports profile in Swedish newspapers during 2010 and 2011. The tabloid newspapers Expressen and Aftonbladet have one reporter each stationed in Milan, Italy, whose sole purpose is to report the events of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and his team AC Milan. The aim of this bachelor thesis is to establish the reasons to why he is so well-publicized through the eyes of Swedish journalists at Expressen and Aftonbladet. Further, we intend to investigate how they write about him, why they do so, what characteristics make him well-publicized and what the consequences from this are. The analysis will be connected to theories such as masculinity, the vortex-effect and tabloidization. The information is gathered through quantitative analysis, namely through half structured interviews with five reporters, columnist and news directors at each of the two newspapers. The results show that it is the involvement of the reader in Zlatan Ibrahimovic that makes the newspapers write so much about him, not as the readers themselves might think – because his name at the front of the newspapers boosts the sales of single copies. Another conclusion is that the focus on Zlatan Ibrahimovic within Swedish media creates a risk of missing other major news.

The development of the news media in western societies coincided with the formation of a fully democratic polity based on universal suffrage, and from the outset the press and later broadcasting were assigned a central role in providing the information and argumentative resources for citizenship and in checking for abuses of power. But the commercial news media were also industries, increasingly financed by the sale of advertising, and commentators saw the search for audience maximisation moving news towards sensation. While these developments gathered momentum over many decades in the West, in Taiwan they have been compressed into two, as the country has experienced a rapid triple transformation: from authoritarian, single-party rule, to democratic politics based on multi party competition; from a state managed economy to a market-driven economy; and from a restricted media system to an open one marked by fierce competition. Many observers see this highly compressed process of change, coupled with the relative weakness of civil society, generating a particularly aggressive form of tabloidisation, a withdrawal from social responsibility and ethics, and news system ill adapted to serving the needs of a still consolidating democracy. This argument empirically through three detailed case studies of key stories places them in the context of the general changes reshaping Taiwanese news media and the original arguments over tabloidisation in the West, and concludes by exploring the possibilities for reform in the future.

Thesis (M. Tech. degree in Journalism) -- Tshwane University of Technology 2009. / Provides a better understanding of the factors contributing to the overall success of the newspaper. A revised version of Machado's marketing mix model was used. The results showed how the elements of the marketing mix model had been successfully implemented.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iii, 23 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 21-23).

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study takes an analytical approach to discourse in its focus on the discursive realisation and (re)production of ideology in terms of the (re)construction of a singular female identity as portrayed by the media – specifically content generated by the online news and entertainment website, BuzzFeed. Data was collected electronically over a period of fifteen months (January 2014 to May 2015) and subjected to a keyword search, which then determined the most relevant articles. These articles were entered into two separate corpora for analysis in order to identify the most significant ideologies related to body shaming, and broken down linguistically through the use of Wordsmith Tools. The analysis of the data mainly drew upon the theories of Bakhtin’s conceptualisation of dialogic (2004), Gee’s building tasks of language (2014), van Dijk’s analytical toolkit (1984), (1990) and Kress’ notion of the formation of ideology (1989). The aim of this thesis was to investigate the (re)production of ideology surrounding traditional beauty ideals as being a singular concept in order to reveal the more complex identities of women as unique individuals. The study’s findings indicate that there is a significant correlation between female empowerment in terms of associating with feminist ideals and female misogyny as one of the main sources of body shaming, with female misogyny outranking feminism with only 4,94%. Furthermore, the study revealed that overall appearance was the most commonly discussed topic throughout the corpus, being mentioned in a total of 93,83% of articles, with the face and hair of women being most frequently discussed in 23,46% of articles. Overall appearance was also the topic most commonly shamed in the corpus, closely followed by fashion, body shape and fitness. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie maak gebruik van ‘n analitiese benadering tot diskoers gerig op aspekte van taalwetenskap wat ‘n rol speel in die realisasie van idees in terme van die rekonstruksie van ‘n singulêre vroulike identiteit soos voorgeskryf deur die media – veral in die geval van inhoud gegenereer deur die aanlyn nuus en vermaakwebblad, BuzzFeed. Data was elektronies ingesamel oor ‘n periode van vyftien maande (vanaf Januarie 2014 tot Mei 2015) en onderwerp aan ‘n sleutelwoord soektog, wat dan die mees relevante artikels kon identifiseer. Hierdie artikels was toe in twee aparte corpora ingeskryf vir analise, ten einde van die identifikasie van ideologieë mees relevant tot die konsep van liggaambeskaming. Die data was ook taalkundig afgebreek deur die gebruik van Wordsmith Tools. Die analise van die data is hoofsaaklik gegrond op die teorieë van Bakhtin se konseptualisasie van dialogie (2004), Gee se boutake van taal (2014), van Dijk se metodologiese analise (1984), (1990) en Kress se teorie oor hoe ideologiese raamwerke gevorm word (1989). Die doel van hierdie tesis was die ondersoek in terme van die reproduksie van sekere ideologieë rondom tradisionele ideale van skoonheid as ‘n enkelvoudige konsep om meer te openbaar oor die komplekse identiteite van vroue as unieke individue. Die navorsing dui op ‘n beduidende korrelasie tussen die bemagtiging van vroue in terme van die assosiasie met feministiese ideale en vroue haat deur ander vroue as een van die hoofbronne van liggaambeskaaming, met vroue haat deur ander vroue geidentifiseer as die ideologie wat die meeste voorkom in die korpus, net 4,94% meer as feminisme. Verder onthul die studie dat algehele voorkoms die mees algemeen bespreekte onderwerp was, genoem in ‘n totaal van 93,83% van artikels, met die gesig en hare van vroue mees algemeen bespreek in 23,46% van artikels. Algehele voorkoms was ook die onderwerp wat mees algemeen verneder was, gevolg deur mode, liggaamsvorm en fiksheid.