Syftet med den här uppsatsen har varit att undersöka hur journalisterna mår psykiskt på sin arbetsplats på Sörmlands media, närmare bestämt Eskilstuna Kuriren (EK), Katrineholms Kuriren (KK) och Södermanlands Nyheter (SN). Att valet föll på Sörmlands media, beror på att vi båda hade vikariat på EK och KK sommaren 2018 och bedömer att dessa redaktioner bedriver lokaljournalistik framgångsrikt trots nedskärningar på redaktionerna. Till vår uppsats har vi valt att göra en kvantitativ enkätundersökning som vi sedan följde upp med kvalitativa intervjuer med chefredaktörerna på EK, KK och SN. Syftet med enkätundersökningen var att ta reda på om journalisterna upplever stress i sin vardag på redaktionen och i så fall varför. 23 frågor skickades ut till 71 journalister, varav 32 svarade. Där framgick att över hälften av de anställda funderade på att byta jobb. Den främsta orsaken till det uppgavs vara arbetsvillkoren. Stress fanns också över tekniken som arbetsredskap, personalbrist, samt osäkerhet inför framtiden med tanke på nedskärningar. Efter sammanställningen av enkäten gjordes kvalitativa intervjuer med chefredaktörerna på de tre redaktionerna. Eva Burman (EK), Marie Hillblom (KK) och Anna Falk (SN) intervjuades och fick ta del av resultatet från enkätundersökningen och ge sin syn på arbetsvillkoren, digitalisering, nedskärningar och framtiden. Resultatet från intervjuerna visade att chefredaktörerna har förståelse för den stress som journalisterna känner men gav också sin bild av hur de önskar att journalisterna själva kunde bidra till att minska den. Som teoretisk ram för vår studie har vi valt teorier om kommersialiseringen och managerialism enligt Ulrika Andersson och kombinerat med Karasek och Theorells krav-kontroll och stödmodell, som är en av de ledande teorierna inom psykosocial arbetsmiljöforskning.

<p>BACKGROUND </p><p>When a customer delivers a colour proof to a printer, they expect the final print to look similar to that proof. Today it is impossible to control if a match between proof and print is technically possible to reach at all. This is mainly due to the fact that no information regarding the production circumstances of the proof is provided, for instance the printer does not know which proofer, RIP or ICC-profile that was used. Situations where similarity between proof and print cannot be reached and the press has to be stopped are both costly and time consuming and are therefore wished to be avoided.</p><p>PURPOSE </p><p>The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the possibility to form a method with the ability control if a proof is of such good quality that it is likely to produce a print that is similar to it.</p><p>METHOD </p><p>The basic assumption was that the quality of a proof could be decided by spectrally measuring known colour patches and compare those values to reference values representing the same patches printed at optimal press conditions. To decide which and how many patches that are required, literature and reports were studied, then a test printing and a comparison between proofing systems were performed. To be able to analyse the measurement data in an effective way a tool that analyses the difference between reference and measurement data was developed using MATLAB. </p><p>RESULT </p><p>The result was a suggestion for a colour proof quality verification method that consists two parts that are supposed to complement each other.The first one was called Colour proofing system evaluation and is supposed to evaluate entire proofing systems. It consists of a test page containing colour patches, grey balance fields, gradations and photographs. The second part is called Colour proof control and consists of a smaller set of colour patches that is supposed to be attached to each proof. </p><p>CONCLUSIONS </p><p>The method is not complete since more research regarding the difference between measurement results and visual impression is needed. To be able to obtain realistic tolerance levels for differences between measurement- and reference data, the method must be tested in every-day production. If this is done the method is thought to provide a good way of controlling the quality of colour proofs.</p>

BACKGROUND When a customer delivers a colour proof to a printer, they expect the final print to look similar to that proof. Today it is impossible to control if a match between proof and print is technically possible to reach at all. This is mainly due to the fact that no information regarding the production circumstances of the proof is provided, for instance the printer does not know which proofer, RIP or ICC-profile that was used. Situations where similarity between proof and print cannot be reached and the press has to be stopped are both costly and time consuming and are therefore wished to be avoided. PURPOSE The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the possibility to form a method with the ability control if a proof is of such good quality that it is likely to produce a print that is similar to it. METHOD The basic assumption was that the quality of a proof could be decided by spectrally measuring known colour patches and compare those values to reference values representing the same patches printed at optimal press conditions. To decide which and how many patches that are required, literature and reports were studied, then a test printing and a comparison between proofing systems were performed. To be able to analyse the measurement data in an effective way a tool that analyses the difference between reference and measurement data was developed using MATLAB. RESULT The result was a suggestion for a colour proof quality verification method that consists two parts that are supposed to complement each other.The first one was called Colour proofing system evaluation and is supposed to evaluate entire proofing systems. It consists of a test page containing colour patches, grey balance fields, gradations and photographs. The second part is called Colour proof control and consists of a smaller set of colour patches that is supposed to be attached to each proof. CONCLUSIONS The method is not complete since more research regarding the difference between measurement results and visual impression is needed. To be able to obtain realistic tolerance levels for differences between measurement- and reference data, the method must be tested in every-day production. If this is done the method is thought to provide a good way of controlling the quality of colour proofs.