One of the major campaign promises of the former US president Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign was to bar Muslims from entering the United States. Donald Trump kept his promise by ...issuing an executive order on assumption of office. The executive order banned Muslims from seven countries from entering the United States until a judge in Washington halted the executive order. The story received wide coverage in the media. This article will study the news coverage of the executive order in three leading international media organizations, AlJazeera English (AJE), the
New York Times
and the
Wall Street Journal
. These three media organizations were selected because they provide different perspectives to news and have global audiences that consume the news on daily basis. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), the article seeks to compare how the three media organizations pitched the story. CDA is interested in identifying the relationship between power, ideology and social inequality. The article explores the issues related to power, ideology and social inequality in relation to the Trump’s executive order as reported in the three news media organizations. What are the ethnic, political and cultural issues that dominated the discourse of Trump’s ban on Muslims in the three newspapers? The results from the study found ideological differences in the coverage, with AlJazeera and the
New York Times
being slightly more critical of Donald Trump and his policies in their approach, while the
Wall Street Journal
was supportive of the executive order. Nevertheless, all three news organizations were similar in promoting discourse, which promotes the interest of power elites. This approach in news discourse further contributes to creating a divided society that is unequal in nature. The article concludes by recommending the practice of a more contextual journalism that promotes a peaceful and harmonious society.
This paper examines the role and scope of eyewitness images in open-source investigation, which is becoming a prominent genre of conflict reporting in its own right. Based on interviews with ...journalists at the Visual Investigations Unit at The New York Times and a textual analysis of their video reports, the paper sheds light on the paradoxical working of the genre, which simultaneously opens up and limits opportunities for eyewitness images as a platform for voice. The paper thus argues that despite the journalists’ commitment to innovation, the logics of institutions, the corporate ethos of social media platforms, and the pervasive power of geopolitics continue to shape the articulation, recognition, and agency of voice.
Bu makalenin amacı gazetecilik meslek etiğinin güven üzerine etkisini New York Times gazetesi üzerinden açıklamaya çalışmaktır. Nitel araştırma yöntemiyle oluşturulan araştırmada örnek olay çalışması ...olarak New York Times incelenmiştir. Veri toplama aracı olarak yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme metodu benimsenmiş ve her biri farklı ülkeden olan 19 gazeteci ile uzaktan bire bir görüşmeler gerçekleştirilmiştir. Görüşmeler, betimsel ve içerik analizi yöntemine göre ele alınmıştır. Araştırma kapsamında: Haber sitelerinin gelir modellerine daha fazla odaklandığı, kamuoyunda güven konusundaki farkındalığın yükseldiği, gazetecilerin etik sorunlara karşı bilincinin arttığı ve haber merkezlerinin dijitalleşmeye yönelik dönüştürülmeye başlandığı saptanmıştır. Bu faktörlerden dolayı internet haberciliğinin geleceğinin son 10 yılda olduğu kadar problematik geçmemesi beklenmektedir. Katılımcıların “tarafsız yayıncılıktan” çok “güvenilir içeriğin” önemine vurgu yaptıkları belirlenmiştir. New York Times’ın internet ile geleneksel yayıncılığı başarılı şekilde koordine ettiği, internet ortamında okuyucuya ulaşmak için tüm araçları etkin şekilde kullandığı ve aldatıcı başlıklara başvurmadığı sonucuna varılmıştır. Bu araştırmanın geleneksel basından dijitale geçiş sürecinde yaşanan etik sorunlara karşı izlenebilecek yolların bulunmasına katkı sağlaması da hedeflenmektedir.
This article aims to analyse the role of translation in the tabloidization of the New York Times in Spanish. Drawing on the findings of a previous study that compared the English, Chinese and Spanish ...versions of the online newspaper, I hypothesise that the Spanish version focuses on human-interest news items translated from English originals and, therefore, translation may be used in a tabloidization process of the source texts in order to cater for the needs of the target audiences, that is, Spanish speakers of Spanish-speaking origin living in the United States or in Latin America. To study the process, I gathered two constructed weeks, a methodology widely used in communication studies, to analyse the differences between the two versions both in terms of content and format. The analysis, shows a tendency towards the 'diminution of seriousness', which can be explained as the result of the attempts to attract a readership belonging to different news traditions.
•Five dimensions are extracted from a novel multidimensional analysis of editorials.•The editorials in China Daily appear more informational and impersonal.•The editorials in The New York Times are ...more involved, narrative and argumentative.•The editorials in China Daily appear more formal than those in The New York Times.•Differences in styles of editorial writing in English reflect cultural differences.
A bespoke multidimensional (MD) analysis was performed to compare the writing styles of editorials in China Daily (CD) and The New York Times (NYT) and a formula was proposed to compute a total score for each corpus. Five dimensions were extracted and labeled as: Involved vs. Informational Production, Narrative vs. Non-Narrative Concerns, Expression of Institutional Stance, Overt Expression of Argumentation and Abstract Style. The results showed that the CD editorials appeared more informational, impersonal and showed more institutional voice than the NYT editorials, whereas the NYT editorials were more involved, narrative, overtly argumentative and displayed more personal stance than the CD editorials. All the dimensions taken together, the CD editorials appeared more formal and less readable than the NYT ones. The disparity between both corpora of editorials was discussed in terms of cross-cultural differences. This study provides novel insights into peculiar and unique writing styles in both American and Chinese English persuasive writing.
A content analysis (N = 520) of Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage in The New York Times (NYT) examined the use of frames and exemplars to understand how the ACA was covered from passage through ...repeal attempts in 2017. Results show an increase in episodic frames as the law took effect and citizens faced health coverage decisions. There was also a change in NYT use of exemplars over the years. In the earlier stage of the ACA, the exemplars featured elites such as politicians, but later focusing more on citizen experiences and the benefits of the ACA. Findings suggest the change in how the NYT framed the ACA increasingly involved personal stories about the law's benefits as well as the public's experiences.
Shares, Pins, and Tweets Bastos, Marco Toledo
Journalism studies (London, England),
05/2015, Volume:
16, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This paper compares the volume of news articles per section in newspapers and social media platforms. To this end, two weeks of news articles were retrieved by querying the public Application ...Programming Interfaces (APIs) of The New York Times and The Guardian and the diffusion of each article on social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Delicious, Pinterest, and StumbleUpon, was tracked. The results show significant differences in the topics emphasized by newspaper editors and social media users. While users of social media platforms favor opinion pieces, along with national, local, and world news, in sharp contrast the decision of news editors emphasized sports and the economy, but also entertainment and celebrity news. Common to social networking sites is the prevalence of items about arts, technology, and opinion pieces. Niche social networks like StumbleUpon and Delicious presented a greater volume of articles about science and technology, while Pinterest is mostly dedicated to fashion, arts, lifestyle, and entertainment. Twitter is the only social network to have presented a statistically significant correlation with the distribution of news items per section by The Guardian and The New York Times. The results of this study provide a bridge between journalism and audience research and present evidence of the differences between readership in social and legacy media.
This study compared 50 years of the New York Times' international news (N = 20,765) with U.S. foreign aid allocations and country rankings in Freedom House's Freedom in the World report to understand ...how the amount of foreign aid relates to the amount and content of coverage of nations as well as whether/how political similarity impacts coverage and aid. Nations receiving the highest level of aid received the most news coverage and topics of coverage focused significantly more on politics, conflict and diplomacy. Coverage of nations that receive a high level of aid was largely split between free, partly free and not free, pointing to media attention not necessarily being linked to freedom status.
The Olympic Games are often framed by the U.S. media as political events, with the media’s preference for democratic political systems, while global health crises are often framed in a similar way, ...demonstrating shared concerns about human interests. When the Olympics occur during a global health crisis, a tension emerges between the ideological framing of the Olympics and the shared concern for human interests in media coverage. By analyzing New York Times coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, this study aims to show how ideological preferences in Olympic coverage interact with shared concerns about health crises. Furthermore, the analysis of this interaction leads to a rethinking of traditional journalistic norms that view journalists as detached observers.
This study reviewed The New York Times' (NYT) coverage of lockdowns in Wuhan and Italy in early 2020 to investigate how it constructed the anti-coronavirus tactics used in the initial stages of the ...COVID-19 pandemic and to assess whether it politicized the issue, as earlier research indicated. Using a framing analysis that employed mixed research methods, the study found that among the seven established frames identified in both contexts, the two politically-charged frames in the texts-attribution of responsibility and action-were more salient than science and risk magnitude frames, particularly in the coverage of the Wuhan lockdown. It further emerged that the outlet's political messages were embedded in texts dominantly framed by other themes, such as human interest and conflict. The findings indicate that the NYT represented the lockdowns from a robustly political perspective while marginalizing the issue's health and scientific dimensions. This offers timely empirical evidence that politics superseded science in news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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