On the surface, it may look like there are no news deserts in Czech Republic, but that does not mean all audiences able to get relevant local news. Apart from independent outlets, which diminishing, districts served by information provided either a delocalised publishing chain or municipality press promotes government. I will focus on emergence of perspective newspapers, especially structural c...

Government information system failures are filling not only newspapers but also parliamentary and administrative reports. This article deals with a case in which information and communication technologies (ICT)–related failure claimed by the media influenced the parliamentary agenda, and intra-governmental relations. Drawing on a narrative analysis of a Dutch parliamentary commission’s hearings...

This thesis compares media portrayals of political corruption in the United States of America versus the People’s Republic of China. Political corruption is considerably understudied and poses a serious threat to the social, political, and economic wellbeing of all nations. By studying each country’s corresponding media portrayals, this thesis was able to identify how seemingly opposing styles ...

This study addresses the following questions in the context of a developing country. Do crimes increase following natural disasters? Does an upcoming election or the presence of a strong local media, which potentially increases the incentive of the government to provide disaster relief, mitigate the effect of disasters on crime rates? I find that crime rates tend to increase following moderate ...

Recently, popular magazines and newspapers broadcast skeptical headlines, such as, “Desperately Seeking Cures”1; “A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few Cures”2; “Faltering Cancer Trials”3; and “Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe.”4 Some patients, physicians, advocacy groups, journalists, scholars, and policymakers openly wonder about the value of billions of dollars in gover...

An unusual number of featured articles in our newspapers have included discussions about ethics or ethical behavior, most often, the stories concern ethical violations or unethical behavior. Think of all those corporate CEOs and financial advisors, not to mention our government officials, for instance, Anthony Williams, mayor of the District of Columbia, and Senator Robert G. Torricelli. Unfort...

Local newspapers are an important source of health news, especially in small communities. We describe the amount and type of cancer information in Ontario daily newspapers dichotomized by circulation size (> 400,000 or < 40,000) and community size (> 250,000 or < 25,000 people) for 1991. All cancer articles (n = 1027) in five newspapers with large circulations, serving large communities, and fi...

This paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine discursive representations of older people in Taiwanese newspapers. A total of 926 references to older people were sampled from 62 articles published in four Taiwanese newspapers from January to August 2013. The findings suggest that, older people were frequently allocated roles suggestive of dependency. Those portrayed in line with the pos...

Abstract This study tried to examine the relationship between language strategies/sources and ideologies, and how ideologies are constructed and expressed through language strategies in different English newspapers with different political contexts. The focus of the study was on the style of representation of Syrian civil war in Tehran-Times and Asharq Al-Awsat newspapers. The data from these n...

Media portrayals of older people, such as those in newspapers, both inform and reflect public attitudes. By becoming aware of culturally influenced attitudes about older people, and how these attitudes are reflected in the ways older people are viewed, treated, and cared for in society, the healthcare profession can better understand how to provide high-quality care. By applying an ethnographic...