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Reporting on Interreligious and Interethnic Tensions: The Meaning Behind the Headlines, 2013

Skopje: School of Journalism and Public Relations;Institute for Communication Studies (2013), 161 pp.
"The quantitative content analysis identified the amount and the patterns of media reporting on delicate interethnic and interfaith issues, focusing on respect of different aspects of professional and ethical standards. The method of Critical Discourse Analysis is applied for the qualitative analysis of the media coverage of three events that shacked the fragile interethnic relations in the first half of 2012: the European Championship in handball in 2012, the Carnival of Vevchani, and the Smilkovsko Lake Murders. The synthesized findings clearly “detect” the extent to which basic standards of impartial, accurate and balanced reporting are being observed and the practice of using violent and emotional language through the prism of 'one’s own' ethnic group." (http://mediaobservatory.net)
Reporting diversity: basic concepts / Marina Tuneva, 11
I. CONTENT ANALYSING COVERAGE ON INTERETHNIC AND INTERRELIGIOUS ISSUES
Interethnic tensions: news of the day / Vesna Sopar, Snezana Trpevska and Zaneta Trajkoska, 19
II. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THREE CASE STUDIES
Notes on Methodology, 63
1 Media and the European handball championship 2012: between sports and ethnopolitics / Vesna Sopar and Igor Micevski, 67
2 Media and the religious narratives: the case of carnival of Vevcani coverage / Igor Micevski and Misha Popovik, 91
3 Media and the narratives of threat: the case of the coverage of the Smilkovsko lake murders / Misha Popovik and Igor Micevski, 117