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The Work and Life of Journalist Elaine Sciolino - biographical study
Chodil, Jakub ; Osvaldová, Barbora (advisor) ; Maňák, Vratislav (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the work and life of American journalist and writer Elaine Sciolino. In the form of a biographical study, it presents her childhood, family life, beginnings in newspapers, decades of journalistic work in the American media, various awards, and her transformation into a writer. The work also uses specific examples to describe the journalistic genres she pursued and discusses the themes and form of the books she wrote in her later years, as well as how they were received. The thesis utilizes the opinion journalism articles and news writing that Sciolino contributed to such publications as Newsweek and the New York Times, as well as her literary works.
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One hundred years of Švejk: tranformation of the critical reception of Jaroslav Hašek's novel
Mašek, Filip ; Malý, Radek (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This thesis deals with one century of Czech critical reflection on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk, i.e. the period from the publication of the first volume in 1921 to 2021. Using reviews in the press, literary critical polemics, selected literary and scientific studies and relevant articles we follow the transformation of the critical discourse about the mentioned novel. The mutual coherence of the viewed sources is ensured by the emphasis on intratextuality, the overview character of the work is complemented by references to other works. This work then not only collects individual texts in the form of bibliographic records and recapitulations of key theses, but also places them in a cultural, historical or social context using interpretive blocks. Using interpretations, we create a narrative culminating in the conclusion when we report on the evolution of the work's critical reception. After its publication, the book is accepted by a wide readership, but literary criticism ignores it with only few exceptions. The work saw rehabilitation in the second half of the 20s of the 20th century thanks to the critical polemics of the time. Since then, the novel has undergone several revisions - in the 1930s it was interpreted as a proletarian novel, during the Second World War it was banned...
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Ukraine War Through the Eyes of Czech Reporters
Levíčková, Žaneta ; Osvaldová, Barbora (advisor) ; Just, Petr (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with war reporting from the war in Ukraine and its specifics through the eyes of Czech reporters who were present in the country themselves. The objective is to look at the work of journalists in this armed conflict from their viewpoint because they are the most knowledgeable on the topic and they deal with war reporting long-term and comprehensively. Based on the data obtained, the work aims to clarify what obstacles the reporters encountered during reporting and what caused them. The research - semi-structured in-depth interviews - was analyzed using the grounded theory method. In the form of interviews, the insights of six reporters who reported on the war in the period of February- August 2022 are put into context. At the end of the work, the main obstacles that journalists encountered while reporting on this war are stated, as well as the proposal of possible solutions of how they can be eliminated in the future.
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The media image of Václav Havel in broadsheet and tabloid press
Marková, Tanja ; Klimeš, David (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
The thesis titled "Media image of Václav Havel in the Quality and Tabloid Press" analyzes and interprets selected texts about the first Czech President Václav Havel in quality (Mladá fronta DNES) and tabloid (Blesk) press during a selected period. The aim of this thesis is to answer research questions as how the selected press informed about V. Havel during the selected periods, what image of V. Havel was created in the selected press during the selected period, and whether quality press experienced tabloidization. The thesis is divided into a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part describes the characteristics of quality and tabloid press and the process of tabloidization. It also introduces theoretical concepts that this thesis is based on, such as agenda-setting, gatekeeping, and social construction of reality. To provide a more comprehensive picture of Vaclav Havel's life, there is one chapter dedicated to him in the theoretical part. The practical part introduces the analysis method, followed by its procedure and results. Quantitative content analysis showed that more information about V. Havel was reported in the selected serious daily newspaper Mladá fronta DNES than in the selected tabloid daily newspaper Blesk. The explanation for this phenomenon may be that quality press...
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Ethics of Using Anonymous Sources in Czech Journalism
Borská, Pavlína Štěpánka ; Osvaldová, Barbora (advisor) ; Klimeš, David (referee)
The topic of the presented bachelor thesis is the use of anonymous sources in czech journalism. The thesis deals with the dichotomy of anonymous sources, summarizes the advantages, disadvantages, risks and possible consequences of using unnamed sources from the point of view of journalists and the sources themselves. It also covers the legal framework of this problems and its involvement in local codes of ethics. It focuses on the impact of anonymous sources on media credibility. The analysis of three different local media provides concrete examples of quotations from anonymous sources, following their frequency and nature. The paper is concluded with three interviews with domestic journalists on the studied issue.
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Ladislav Smoljak, editor of the Mladý svět magazine
Hrdlička, Jan ; Slomek, Jaromír (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This thesis deals with a not very well-known topic - it analyses the journalistic and publicist work of Ladislav Smoljak in the print media, especially in the magazine Mladý svět. It aims to reveal how Smoljak approached his work as a journalist, what were the specific features of his work, with what topics he dealt, and to what extent he contributed to the image of the magazine. I also include an article bibliography of Ladislav Smoljak during his time at the editorial office of Mladý svět. In the theoretical part, I present Smoljak's biography together with an outline of the historical context and a description of the Czechoslovak media scene of the time. The practical part then analyses Smoljak's texts and assesses his role in the magazine.
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The degree of respect for the ideal of objectivity in the news of Czech Television and CNN Prima News: the example of media coverage of the functioning of the president's office
Šafránková, Tereza ; Jirků, Jan (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This thesis aims to explain the concept of information bias and to demonstrate its concrete manifestations in the main evening newscasts of ČT24 and CNN Prima News. The background material will deal with the profiling of the media image of the functioning of the presidential office of Miloš Zeman. The material will be drawn from the period from May 3, 2020, when the news station CNN Prima News began its broadcast, to the first quarter of 2022. The initial theoretical framework serves as the conceptual part of the thesis, outlining the issues of the phenomenon under investigation, i.e. media bias. This chapter defines the basic concepts, defines the methodological framework, provides a characterization of the media under study, and makes assumptions about the types of bias that the selected media might eventually commit, in the context of knowledge about how the media profiles itself. On the basis of this knowledge, a qualitative semiotic analysis is carried out, focusing on the content, language and visuals of the broadcast reports. As part of the analysis, the thesis also takes into account the profiling of the media image of the presidential office of Miloš Zeman. The aim of the thesis is to highlight the ways in which the selected programmes violate the concept of information quality and...
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Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for membership in journalists'organisations in Denmark
Hodina, Stanislav ; Moravec, Václav (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
Tato bakalářská práce se pomocích hloubkových rozhovorů a následné analýzy snaží nalézt odpověď na to jaké jsou vnitřní a vnější motivace pro členství v novinářských organizacích v Dánsku. V teoretických kapitolách práce je nejprve stručně představena historie dánské žurnalistiky. Následuje podkapitola porovnávající západního a dánského novináře. Poslední podkapitola se věnuje novinářským svazům, především tomu dánskému. Třetí kapitola popisuje metodologii hloubkových rozhovorů - od přípravy po analýzu. Praktická část bakalářské práce je složena ze samotné analýzy. Hloubkové rozhovory byly provedeny na vybraném vzorku novinářů v Dánsku. Abstract This bachelor's thesis seeks to find an answer to what are the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations for membership in journalism organizations in Denmark through in-depth interviews and subsequent analysis. The theoretical chapters of the thesis first briefly introduce the history of Danish journalism. This is followed by a subchapter comparing Western and Danish journalists. The last subchapter focuses on journalists' associations, especially the Danish one. The third chapter describes the methodology of in-depth interviews - from preparation to analysis. The practical part of the bachelor thesis consists of the actual analysis. In-depth interviews were...
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The specifics of a Czech radio foreign correspondent's job - a comparative case study
Linhart, Tomáš ; Maršík, Josef (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
Specifika práce zahraničního zpravodaje Českého rozhlasu - komparativní případová studie Tomáš Linhart Abstract The thesis examines aspects of the job of foreign correspondents for Czech Radio. Apart from identification, description and analysis of those aspects, the thesis also includes secondary research aims: how is gatekeeping used in correspondents' practice, what influence social networks have on the transformation of their job and what are their views on the coverage of Austria in the Czech media landscape, which is the only neighbouring country without a permanent Czech foreign correspondent. The theoretical chapter describes the methodological approach, reviews related literature and summarizes information about gatekeeping, the influence of social networks, specific aspects of radio broadcasting with an emphasis on foreign correspondents, and the position of Austria in the world news by Czech media. The theory is followed by an analysis of eleven interviews (six current Czech Radio foreign correspondents, three past correspondents and two reporters with a personal experience from Austria) divided into nine sections. The analytical part is concluded with a brief reflection of obtained answers in relation to theoretical foundations. The original interviews and a considerably high validity of the...
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