"Die Tageszeitungen stecken in der Krise. Neben dem Rückgang der Verkaufsauflagen und den Einbrüchen bei den Werbeerlösen prägen auch der Besitzerwechsel bei Verlagen und Zeitungstiteln sowie der kräftige Abbau an journalistischem Personal den aktuellen Trend in der Zeitunsgbranche. Viele Medie
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nmacher erklären die Zeitung für tot, andere haben griffige Lösungsstrategien parat. Doch beide Seiten vernachlässigen die gründliche Trendanalyse des Medienwandels. Gewiss tragen das Internet und die sich wandelnden Lebensstile der jungen Bevölkerung zur Misere bei. Übersehen wird dabei, dass auch die Zeitungsmacher selbst dazu beitragen, die Krise zu verschärfen. Viele verweigern sich der Anstrengung, das Publikum und seine Erwartungen an die Zeitung zu verstehen und auf das veränderte Nutzungsverhalten der jungen Erwachsenen nachhaltig einzugehen. Sie sehen nicht, dass der größte Teil der Leserschaft – dies sind die berufstätigen Erwachsenen ab 35 Jahren – weiterhin eine aktuelle, gehaltvolle Tageszeitung mit hoher Informationsleistung wünschen. Diese Leserschaft erwartet, dass ihre Tageszeitung eine Orientierungshilfe in der täglichen Informationsflut bietet – und reagieren enttäuscht, weil ihre Zeitung Informationsleistungen abbaut und nach und nach zum Geschichtenerzähler zu werden scheint. Auf der Grundlage langfristig angelegter Erhebungen und empirischer Studien zeigt der Autor, wann und warum die Zeitungen ihre Leser verloren haben. So ist ihr Reichweitenverlust, der auf eine Kluft zwischen Medienrealität und Lesererwartungen zurückzuführen ist, kein Naturgesetz. Michael Hallers Befunden zufolge gibt es Wege, den Graben zwischen den jungen Onlinern und den älteren Offlinern zu schließen. Der Autor formuliert Vorschläge, wie die Zeitung ihre Stimme im cross- und multimedialen Konzert wiederfinden und so auch neue Leserschaften erschließen könnte." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"In summary, the findings show that more than half of the analysed newspapers do in fact seek to expose potential wrong doings of government and business and as such are important actors in promoting local accountability. Yet, the findings also show that a lot of the reporting is not as extensive, a
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ccurate and thorough as it could be. Some of the reasons for this are given below alongside recommendations as to how independent publishers could in future be supported to fulfil their mandate better." (Introduction)
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"[...] this book provides a concise and thorough overview of the field, looking back at newspapers’ history, and forward to their future – and insisting there will be one. The authors, former journalists who now teach the subject, review the practices of the profession – from defining news to
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examining who owns newspapers, from newspaper readership to the new media environment. Written in an accessible style, this comprehensive text is well suited for a range of courses on newspapers." (Publisher description)
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"Chapter 1 argues that, nevertheless, for most people, most of the time, their immediate locality is very important. Here social change and political decisions become real; it is in actual localities that people function as citizens. A local public sphere is therefore vital to democracy, however far
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short of the conditions for Habermas’s ‘ideal speech’ it falls. From this follows the thread that runs through the rest of the book: to what extent can the local media in the contemporary UK contribute to this ‘space’? Chapter 2 explains the organizational and financial architecture of the regional press. Still profitable, still popular, how is the industry dealing with the proliferation of competing media platforms and convergence of technologies? The editorial strategies developed to accommodate these pressures in the context of wider social and economic change is considered in Chapter 3, which concludes with a case study of Birmingham and its newspapers. Faced with an increasing diversity, what techniques are used to ‘imagine’ the community? Does attempting to address everyone push human interest topics into the foreground at the expense of information and debate? Chapter 4 reviews the rapidly changing regulatory framework for regional broadcasting. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is being cast as the main player, but it is questionable whether it can devote extensive additional resources to news-gathering, given that its status and funding is legitimated by its nationwide responsibilities. Regional news on television is very popular with audiences, but they are not wholly satisfied with it. Chapter 5 argues that current analogue television regions and a ‘family audience’ together produce an interpretive frame in which the affective and subjective is bound to edge out content useful to the public as citizens. Only the BBC provides an adequate local radio news service, but its potential is limited by the target audience. The nations of the UK, the subject of Chapter 6, vividly demonstrate that every aspect of media, ownership, regulation and content is highly politicized. A case study of S4C illustrates both the importance of, and difficulties in sustaining, public service broadcasting. Chapter 7 opens with a review of the vital place that local media still occupy in journalism’s mythology. Many regional journalists take special pride in their work, despite deteriorated conditions, inadequate pay levels, and increasing concerns about whether the work-force, whether in print or broadcast, is properly diverse in all its meanings. Finally, Chapter 8 considers the future of both publicly funded and commercial regional media as new communications technologies drive potentially dramatic changes in audience behaviour and sources of revenue. It concludes that, if inclusive citizenship is to be sustained, blogs, citizen journalism and community media are, as yet, no substitute for conventional media forms." (introduction, page 2-3)
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"A collection of 22 papers on the indigenous language press (and other media) in Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, primarily devoted to the activities of African language newspapers and periodicals. Some papers examine the significant and pioneering role religious publications
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– both Christian and Islamic – have played in the development of indigenous languages presses in Africa, while others examine some of the socio-political and economic changes that have greatly affected indigenous language media over the years, and have lead to its demise to some extent. Also included as an Appendix is a paper in Dutch by Honoré Vinck, “Het belang van de periodieke koloniale pers in Afrikaanse talen”, which examines the role of the African language press during colonial days in the Belgian Congo." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2135)
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"Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit besteht aus zwei Teilen: Der erste Teil besteht aus einer theoretischen Einführung in die politische und gesellschaftliche Situation Kambodschas, einer Darstellung des Pressewesens und technischen Entwicklung des asiatischen Königreiches. Er soll dem besseren Verstän
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dnis des zweiten, des empirischen Teils dienen. Dieser besteht aus der Erarbeitung eines Konzepts einer lokalen Zeitung. Ziel des Konzepts ist es, kambodschanische Verleger und Journalisten dabei zu unterstützen, in eigener Verantwortung eine lokale Zeitung aufzubauen; es soll Ideen und Anregungen geben, wie unter der gegenwärtigen politischen und sozialen Lage eine lokale Zeitung bestehen kann." (Einleitung)
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"Analysis of 4 editions (December 1961) of 9 national newspapers and 6 provincial newspapers." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 887, topic code 110.5)