In October 2015, a masked man armed with a sword and a knife entered the school Kronan in the Swedish town Trollhättan. Four people, including the perpetrator, were killed and another two severely injured. The aim of this study is to examine the frames in medias description of the event and of the perpetrator from the view of the journalistic responsibilities. The event in Trollhättan can be seen as an act of terror and during such events the journalistic responsibilities sometimes changes. There is a conflict in the aspect of telling the truth on one hand and protecting the citizens from harm on the other, in order not to reproduce the terrorist’s message in the press. This study is a qualitative framing analysis of 11 articles from the local newspaper TTELA. We found that the most salient frame of the event was grief rather than drama and that the media acted on the responsibility of protecting the citizens from details. The perpetrator was described as a lone wolf with connections to racist groups on the Internet. There was a shallow frame regarding the danger with the groups on the Internet but the main problem was described as gone with the death of the lonely perpetrator.

The aim of the study was to examine how crime journalism relates to gender by exploring how a female perpetrator is constructed in Swedish news media. We examined a specific case where a female perpetrator murdered and dismembered her victim in Askersund, Örebro. The questions examined were; How are the female perpetrator represented in the tabloid Aftonbladet and the local newspaper Nerikes Allehanda and what are the differences and similarities between Aftonbladet’s and Nerikes Allehanda’s representation of her? We made a discourse analysis of eighteen news articles. The result shows that the female perpetrator is represented as a non-ideal female perpetrator, a heartbroken and weak victim and an ordinary woman who suddenly transforms. Aftonbladet and Nerikes Allehanda also represent the female perpetrator as an evil and insensitive murderer and like a jealous madman. Both Aftonbladet and Nerikes Allehanda describe that the female perpetrator saw her victim as a rival. At the beginning, mainly Nerikes Allehanda, represent the female perperator as a part of the community by representing her as a kind and innocent girl who loves horses. Then the representation is changing and the female perpetrator is represented as an intruder in the community. This representation also appears in Aftonbladet. However the tabloid mostly represents the female perpetrator with attributes like vicious, callous, jealous and mad. Our study also shows that the distance between the newspapers and the place where the crime occurred, influences the representation of the female perpetrator.

In the autumn of 2015 a huge amount of refugees were on the run to Sweden. The news media described the situation as a refugee crisis and border controls were initiated. The aim of this study was to examine how two Swedish newspapers, one national and one local, portrayed refugees at the time when the border controls were initiated in Sweden. The questions examined were: How are the refugees portrayed, what are the similarities and differences between Dagens Nyheter and Sydsvenskan’s portrayal of the refugees? To approach this we made two different analysis of reports from each newspaper, three from Dagens Nyheter and two from Sydsvenskan. We did a framing analysis on the text and a semiotic analysis on the pictures. Findings show that the portrayal of refugees are very similar in both newspapers. The refugees are described as inferior, but at the same time brave, well-educated and hopeful. We also found that refugees often are portrayed as “the others” and the citizens of Sweden are portrayed as “we”. Although the similarities outweighs, we found some interesting differences in the newspapers portrayal of the refugees. For example, in Dagens Nyheter the hopefulness is combined with a positive and joyful approach, while Sydsvenskan describes the hope with an uncertainty and concern about the future.

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

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

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The aim of the study was to examine how two newspapers covered the murder of Lisa Holm. The questions examined were: How are Lisa Holm, the perpetrator and the local community represented and what are the differences and similarities between the local news paper, Skaraborgs Allehanda, and the tabloid, Aftonbladet?  We made a discourse analysis of 13 news articles from six different time periodes. The result shows that the victim is represented as an innocent, young girl who is described as good, happy and perfect. The local news paper represents her as a part of the local community and the tabloid is highlighting attributes that people can identify with. The perpetrator is represented as an evil and callous foreign in both newspapers, but Aftonbladet also represents him as a usual person. Skaraborgs Allehanda focus on his guilt of the murder. The local community is represented as a certain group with common emotions who is also the light in the darkness. They share the grief and help each other to process it. The tabloid focus on highlighting the geografic closeness between the people in the articles and the murder. In Aftonbladet, the local community is also described as a dangerous place. Our study shows that the distance between the newspaper and the crime scene affect the representations of the people involved.

The purpose of this study was to examine how the Swedish sports journalism, tabloids and local newspapers, portrayed the Swedish national football team during the 2018 Russia World Cup and Malmö FF in the 2015/2016 Champions League competition. The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between sports journalism and nationality. The question formulations to this study were: how does the sports journalism portray the Swedish national team and Malmö FF, and what are the similarities and differences between Aftonbladets and Sydsvenskans portrayal of the teams?   I made a discourse analysis out of twelve chronicles, six from Aftonbladet and six from Sydsvenkan. For each of the three group stage games Sweden played in the World Cup, I analyzed one chronicle from both Aftonbladet and Sydsvenskan. Further, I analyzed one chronicle from Aftonbladet and one from Sydsvenskan for each of the three home games Malmö FF played in the Champions League. It turned out that Aftonbladet portrayed Sweden with a lot of metaphors and wrote about the Swedish national team as if the readers were a part of the team. Aftonbladet had more distance and caution when portraying Malmö FF. With Sydsvenskan it was the contrary. Sydsvenskan portrayed Malmö FF as if they were a part of the team and occasionally seemed to be biased. Sydsvenskan portrayed the Swedish national with more caution, distance and did not portray Sweden with the same empathy as Malmö FF.

On the 22nd October 2015 Anton Lundin Pettersson attacked students with a sword at Kronan elementary school, in the Swedish city of Trollhättan. The school is locally known to have many students with different immigrant backgrounds. When the police arrived at the school they shot the perpetrator and after an investigation the police claimed that the perpetrator had racist motives with the attack. Four persons died in the attack, including the perpetrator. The aim of this study was to compare how a local newspaper and a national newspaper covered and framed the school attack in Trollhättan. Our research questions were: How was the attack framed in the articles? How were the victims and the perpetrator framed in the articles? And are there any differences and/or similarities in the newspaper's coverage of the event? In this study we made a qualitative text analysis to examine the comparison between newspapers TTELA (local) and Aftonbladet (national). The timeframe we analysed for the news coverage was from the day of the attack (October 22nd) and one month forward (November 23rd). Totally 29 articles were examined where 17 was from Aftonbladet and 12 was from TTELA. The results showed that both newspapers framed the attack as something that no one saw coming and they both used the words “attack” or “deed” to describe the incident. The newspapers framed some victims as heroes and others as helpless people. Both newspapers framed the perpetrator as a racist, but only the national newspaper (Aftonbladet) framed him as a “lone wolf”. The results showed that the newspapers reported from different forms of othering.

We live in a world where technology and especially digital communications are rapidly evolving, but we rarely think about how or what this development affects. The aim of this bachelor study was to examine whether any differences in news value could be found between the digital and printed versions of a local newspaper, Kristianstadsbladet, as well as the causes for such differences. Using the quantitative method, we coded all 1,230 local news articles (585 printed and 645 digital) from Kristianstadsbladet’s printed paper and website versions, from 2019-11-11 to 2019-11-29, with excluding days of Saturday’s and Sunday’s. Our results showed that our main hypothesis did not quite agree with our results since news value was largely the same on both platforms. Kristianstadsbladet published the same amount of subject categorys in percentage terms, except the subject “Lifestyle” which got more space on their website than in their printed paper. We also concluded that digitalization of mass media is one of the biggest reasons for Kristianstadsbladet to publish the same local news on both their platforms due to modern technology.