Denna uppsats berör den populära podcasten Serial och den kritik som har riktats mot serien av flertalet journalister både i Sverige och utomlands. Uppsatsen ställer sig frågan vad det är med Serials berättargrepp som har utlöst denna upprördhet inom delar av journalistkåren, bland annat gällande reportern Sarah Koenigs framträdande roll i serien, och undersöker hur serien förhåller sig till den traditionella nyhetsjournalistikens grundprinciper. Uppsatsen drar även paralleller till den litterära journalistiken eftersom delar av kritiken mot Serial påminner om den kritik som riktades mot genren då den slog igenom på 60-talet. Studien av Serial, som bygger på en narrativ analys av materialet, har fokuserats kring hur reportern Sarah Koenigs berättande är utformat. Detta eftersom syftet med uppsatsen är att identifiera huruvida det finns belägg för kritiken som serien tagit emot, och som främst är riktad mot Sarah Koenigs berättargrepp. Utifrån de fynd som görs i analysen dras slutsatsen att det går att identifiera problematiska inslag i serien, framförallt gällande bristen på motiv, men att Serial inte nödvändigtvis behöver dömas ut som ett journalistiskt misslyckande. Istället argumenterar uppsatsen för att Serial snarare bör betraktas som en stapplande stilbildare inom det ännu unga och oreglerade podcast-formatet.

The purpose of this essay is to study the two cases ”The hijacking of a bus in Årdal” & ”The double murder in Ljungsbro” from media ethics aspects.  The aim for this study is to clear up if the the Swedish newspapers have reported according to the mediaethic rules and to see if there is any  differences between the newspapers reporting. The following theories has been used to reach the objective: the journalism task, news values, the liberty of press and speach, media ethical rules and discursive discrimination. The study has used a critical discourse method formed by Teun a. van Dijk to analyse the material, mainly through macro- and microstructures. The material that has been analyzed are articles from Expressen, Aftonbladet, Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter. From each happening, two articles per newspaper has been selected by a toss, which ended up with sixteen articles for the whole study. The result and analysis are introduced in packedges, contaning two articles per newspaper and are devided into the two different cases the study examines.  The result indicate that Expressen and Aftonbladet has breached the media ethic rules in both cases when focusing on the one of the swedish victims in Årdal and also when reporting about the suspect murderer in Ljungsbro. The basic journalistic ideals and values has been ignored, for the interest of producing sensational news.

This thesis explores how three socialist newspapers tie in to the Swedish media system and – presumably – is influenced by it. The newspapers have each strong connection to three political parties, so the precise aim of thesis is therefore to examine the independence between the party and its media; and how strongly it can bee defined as Swedish party press in a more traditional sense. The analysed material consists of six qualitative interviews with two co – workers from each paper: including the editors in chief.The basis is partly Kai Kronvalls et al theories surrounding Swedish party press; because the thesis explores how the papers supposedly has changed. And partly theories based on the assumption that media is always reflected by the social and political structure to which it operates. The latter theories have in turned outlined ’press theories’ (Four Theories of the Press) for which it is said that the media is a base of and, more recently, models of how the media works in western countries as a whole (Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini).The thesis showed some difference between how each newspaper can be defined as party press, but in general the independence was weak. This can be explained with how the Swedish media culture in particular has conserved press affiliated with separate (political) groups.