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Journalistic autonomy as a part of the professional identity of journalists
Kloučková, Andrea ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Groman, Martin (referee)
The master's thesis deals with journalistic autonomy as one of the principles of free press and as a key component of the professional identity of journalists. On an ideological level, the journalistic autonomy should ensure the free publication of information without political, economic, owner or any other kind of pressure. The main goal of the thesis is to verify how journalists themselves perceive their autonomy. In addition to developing basic theoretical concepts, the work builds on already implemented Czech and international empirical studies investigating journalistic autonomy. At the same time, it relies on some statements of media experts who criticize the current state of journalism and talk about the gradual weakening of journalistic autonomy in liberal-democratic systems, which results in fragmentation of the journalistic field, the profession declain and the growth of distrust in democratic media. The thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with journalists working at the Economia publishing house showed how they currently perceive their professional autonomy and what factors most influence them in the performance of their profession. The interviews revealed that it is not so much about visible political influences or obvious pressures from the owner or external organizations....
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The impact of paywall introduction for the IHNED.cz news website
Janíková, Simona ; Hájek, Roman (advisor) ; Němeček, Tomáš (referee)
This diploma thesis summarises the development of paid content of ihned.cz, on-line news server of the Czech economic daily Hospodářské noviny. It observes the influence of paywall from August 2014 until April 2015. The aim of the implementation of paywall was to show that the content created on the server was valuable. The theoretical part deals with new challenges media face, including economic and technological changes; it describes the rise of commercialization and media reaction, and solution for these changes in the form of convergence and digital-first concept. The diploma thesis is viewed through the political economy of media approach. It focuses on monetization of content, the willingness of readers to pay for on-line news, traditional and alternative revenues of media, and it describes the examples of implemented paywall in other media. In the practical part, the thesis describes how paywall influenced economic revenues, specifically the digital subscription, advertising and financial results of the publisher Economia, which is providing the server ihned.cz. In this part, the thesis describes the influence of paywall on visits, page views, real and unique users, readership, and work of journalists. The practical part of the thesis includes statistical data and reports as well as...
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Selected german publishing groups in the czech press market in 1990's with a focus on development trends of czech periodical press
Zavadilová, Anna ; Köppl, Daniel (advisor) ; Lysoněk, Tomáš (referee)
The submitted Master's thesis conducts a survey of activities of selected German publishing groups on the Czech public press market. The thesis focuses on activities of the companies: Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft, the former owner of the company MAFRA which publishes the daily newspaper Mladá fronta DNES, Verlagsgruppe Passau, the owner of the company VLTAVA-LABE-PRESS which publishes the regional Deník and also the company Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt which has a share in the company Economia which publishes the newspaper Hospodářské noviny. The topic of this thesis is their arrival to the Czech press market, implementation of new press standards, and changes in structure and functioning of selected newspapers and especially new trends in development of Czech newspapers in 1990s and at the beginning of the 21st century. Apart from examination of origins of the success of German publishing groups on the Czech press market and characteristics of the given period of time, the thesis presents information arising from interviews with executives of selected German publishing groups. The interviews were conducted while using methods of oral history and qualitative research. The main topics of the interviews were: reasons why the companies decided to enter the Czech press market,...
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Candidate endorsement in media under Economia, Ltd. before the Czech presidential election 2013 and 2018
Martinovský, Marek ; Moravec, Václav (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
Author: Marek Martinovský Thesis name: Candidate endorsement in media under Economia, Ltd. before the Czech presidential election 2013 and 2018 Abstract The subject matter of this thesis is to analyse the phenomenon of media endorsement during the Czech presidential elections of 2013 and 2018 in the Czech media landscape. The sample consists of media outputs of two select media under the Economia publishing house, namely Hospodářské noviny and the Aktuálně.cz news website, 14 days prior to the second round of both elections. The paper discusses various theoretical aspects of newspaper endorsement in - mostly US - media and briefly presents examples in the Czech ones as well. The core of the thesis is a quantitative content analysis via which we can attain the volume of explicit and implicit candidate support in select media, as well as find any correlation with the concrete examples of endorsement in both outlets. The secondary goal of the thesis is to provide data about the previously unmapped terrain of endorsement during the 2018 Czech presidential election
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Komentář za minutu by publicists of Hospodářské noviny
Rizikyová, Markéta ; Lokšík, Martin (advisor) ; Géla, František (referee)
The thesis aims to examine the 'Komentář za minutu' format, published by the online offshoot of 'Hospodářské noviny' daily from November 2014 to January 2017. The theoretical part brings forward the Economia publishing house in context of corporate convergence, as well as attributes of comment genres, online videos, and particularities of audio-visual instruments. The practical part qualitatively analyses data acquired by interviews with journalists of 'Hospodářské noviny' daily who featured in Komentář za minutu. All interviews are included.
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The crisis, mergers, changes in ownership and cosolidation - the economical development of czech media companies in years 2009-2013 and cosequent change of the ownership
Beránek, Jan ; Moravec, Václav (advisor) ; Benda, Josef (referee)
This thesis is dedicated to the significant change in media ownership in the Czech Republic which occured during the Global crisis in 2008 - 2013. In this period almost all foreign owners sold their media to the local enterpreneurs, who took over almost all media houses. This shift happened under generally less comfortable matket conditions, which have hit mostly the printed media. The local enterpreneurs are naturally much more interested in local politics. This text describes these changes and uncovers the economic reasons that led to it, including the extensive research into publicly available, yet not analysed annual reports of media companies. The conclusion is that the foreign owners generally earned well in the Czech market and that they have decided to use the crisis as a good moment to sell. The arrival of new domestic owners caused worries about their possible interference with kontent and by 2017 there are some hints suggesting that they may use the media against the opponents. But there is a fact that may prevent them: the thesis proves how worth the position on the market is. And this should at least limit these efforts.
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Transformation of journalistic practices relating to advent of data journalism
Ďuríčková, Monika ; Dvořák, Tomáš (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
The diploma thesis titled Transformation of Journalistic Practices Relating to Advent of Data Journalism concerns the current situation in Czech data journalism and its devel- opment. It examines how the newsroom, the journalists and the readers cope with new technology, big data and the related advent of data journalism. The theoretical part of the text explains the relationship between classical journalism and data-driven journal- ism and compares the so-called "narrative" and "interactive" approaches as forms of data-driven journalism. Further it gives a deeper understanding of the relation between data journalism and the new concept of objectivity and it deals with the cultural, social and technical preconditions of data journalism. The thesis also describes the historical aspects of the topic comparing computer-assisted reporting to current practice. Sub- sequent chapters deal with the visualizations, infographics, amateur data journalism and open data which all play a key role in data-driven journalism. The practical part intro- duces the Czech data team. It was originally established within the publishing house Economia and then moved to the office of Czech Radio (Český rozhlas). The final parts discuss the cooperation model of the Czech data team, the use of visualization in their projects,...
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The introduction of video content in Economia
Chňoupková, Denisa ; Čermák, Miloš (advisor) ; Trunečka, Ondřej (referee)
The bachelor thesis The introduction of video content in Economia deals with one of the essential media trends today, namely growing emphasis of online publishers on the development and production of video content. The author illustrates this phenomenon on the example from the Czech environment, concretely on the example of the publishing house Economia, which in the last two years focused on video production and its range of audio-visual content is constantly expanding. Theoretical part of the thesis describes the phenomena that greatly contributed to the expansion of videos. Primarily, it is the media digitization and also the convergence; furthermore the development of the internet and the emergence and development of new digital media. The author also describes the characteristics of internet video and its various types and finally summarizes the aspects that motivate publishing houses to invest in video content. The practical part is focused on video production of the Economia. The author describes the gradual introduction of video content, the birth of the channel DVTV and last but not least the birth of the Aktuálně.TV - a platform that unites all of the Economia video production. In addition, the author characterizes the look and user interface of the platform and analyses its programs. In...
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Selected german publishing groups in the czech press market in 1990's with a focus on development trends of czech periodical press
Zavadilová, Anna ; Köppl, Daniel (advisor) ; Lysoněk, Tomáš (referee)
The submitted Master's thesis conducts a survey of activities of selected German publishing groups on the Czech public press market. The thesis focuses on activities of the companies: Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft, the former owner of the company MAFRA which publishes the daily newspaper Mladá fronta DNES, Verlagsgruppe Passau, the owner of the company VLTAVA-LABE-PRESS which publishes the regional Deník and also the company Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt which has a share in the company Economia which publishes the newspaper Hospodářské noviny. The topic of this thesis is their arrival to the Czech press market, implementation of new press standards, and changes in structure and functioning of selected newspapers and especially new trends in development of Czech newspapers in 1990s and at the beginning of the 21st century. Apart from examination of origins of the success of German publishing groups on the Czech press market and characteristics of the given period of time, the thesis presents information arising from interviews with executives of selected German publishing groups. The interviews were conducted while using methods of oral history and qualitative research. The main topics of the interviews were: reasons why the companies decided to enter the Czech press market,...
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The transformation of publishing house Economia into multimedia organization
Štefánková, Aneta ; Čermák, Miloš (advisor) ; Lysoněk, Tomáš (referee)
The diploma thesis summaries the transformation of publishing house Economia during the period July 2013 and December 2014. The aim of the transformation was to change Economia as a traditional publishing house focused on the print newspapers into multimedia organization. The thesis describes main changes in within the publishing house - foundation of integrated newsroom, acquisition and integration of Centrum Holdings company, integration of separated newsrooms, creating the digital versions of traditional newspapers, launching of new media types, changing the business models, innovation of traditional titles, developing of new job positions and new projects using more of the different departments of the publishing house. The thesis focuses mainly on changes on the editorial level; the chapters on integration of Centrum Holdings are being considered also from the aspect of management and human resources level. Interviews with the managers of Economia publishing house are the valuable part of the case study. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis sorts the trends and challenges that are faced by traditional publishing houses. Terms like information society, media convergence, digitalization are edefined. The changes related to launch of Web 2.0, social networks and portable electronic devices...
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