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Anonymous Private Party Funding in Denmark: How do journalists cover this issue?
Merved, August Kaae ; Shavit, Anna (advisor) ; Turková, Kateřina (referee)
This thesis intends to examine the amount- and reasons for the news coverage related to the controversial party funding system in Denmark. This is achieved through comparisons of other political cases during the Danish 2022 and 2019 elections in a quantitative media analysis. The results are then analyzed and discussed using the data from eight interviewed Danish journalists working on some of the seven most prominent Danish media outlets. These qualitative interview data provide insights into reasons, motives, and causes for the fluctuation and difference in the coverage between the other observed and analyzed political cases in the past two elections. The findings show that the journalists deem party funding a complex and technical subject, but still, a subject deemed important to cover by journalists. However, in a fast-paced news agenda, the non-transparent party funding is covered less in comparison with news topics or cases during elections that are more emotionally charged and personalized, or topics that can provide a more direct influence on society, according to the qualitative data - as opposed to the more complex cases of political funding.
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Mob lynching: Analysis of framing and sourcing patterns in news media coverage in India
Rodrigues, Ronald ; Dimitrov, Michal (advisor) ; Silverio, Robert (referee)
Mob lynching, an act where a group of people brutally beat an individual/s to the extend of mercilessly killing them publicly is being committed in India. These acts have mushroomed since the election of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in May 2014. This paper examined frames and sources used by three mainstream national newspapers the Times of India, the Indian Express and The Hindu in the coverage of mob lynching during the first term of Modi from May 2014 to May 2019. Further, the paper studied factors that influence journalists during their coverage and conducted interviews with 6 journalists from the newspapers. The paper aimed to analyse whether the media questions the existing impunity and attributes responsibility for acts of mob lynching. The study found results indicating that mob lynching is portrayed as a 'Conflict' by the news media with a comparatively lower use of the responsibility frame and a heavy reliance on 'police' as sources. The study also pointed out that mob lynching is not an isolated incident but a larger systemic issue in India where the media has an important role in questioning the failure of systems. Keywords Mob lynching, cow protection, Hindu, Muslim, Dalit, news media coverage, Narendra Modi, framing, source, journalist
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The Environmental Issues in the Czech Daily Press: News Coverage of Water Issues
Hanušová, Anna ; Nečas, Vlastimil (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis investigates the evolution of news coverage of water-related issues in the Czech daily press from 2014 to 2019. Its theoretical part describes the relationship between mass media and the environment. The characteristics of environmental news are explained more in detail and in the context of environmental topics' features, journalistic routines, news normative demands and economic pressure in the media industry. The topic of the thesis is linked to the media theories about news values, gatekeeping, agenda-setting and framing as well. There is also a review of the studies examining news coverage of the environment and a brief description of the water management situation in the Czech Republic. The methodical part introduces the research goal and previous studies which were used as a base for the method in this paper. The results of the content analysis enabled to describe the news about water issues quantitatively and to explain its features and development according to the theoretical framework and previous findings. This thesis concluded that Czech dailies do not treat the topic of water issues as very important, they are event-oriented, dependent on the official sources and focused on risk-related topics. This can limit public awareness of the problem with decreasing water...
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Media Coverage of Terrorist Attacks in Europe and in the World in Example of ČT 24 News
Musil, Jakub ; Štoll, Martin (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
Terrorist incidents have been on the rise in Europe recently and are therefore a greatful media theme. An interesting fact, however, is the apperently larger media space in the Czech republic which recieves attacks in European countries as opposed to terrorist attack elswhere in the world. Even if the number of victims of such attacks is often many times larger than in Europe. This work focuses on the media coverage of terrorist attacks on CT24 news television. In the first part of the thesis the author first focuses on the theoretical basis of terrorism, on its characteristics and definitions. In the next part, he is devoted to TV news with respect to CT24 news. Author describes CT24 as a national news station and describes its current and breaking broadcasting scheme. In the analytical part, the author deals with the coverage of selected terrorist attacks in Pakistan, Spain, the USA and Egypt and tries to find out how CT24 devoted to these attacks. Emphasis is placed on the quantitative content analysis of media coverage and on the quantification of types of news reports used to cover CT24's terrorist attacks coverage.
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Aircraft and Railway Accidents of Czechoslovak operators in 1948-1989 in daily press
Šírová, Tereza ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Knapík, Jiří (referee)
Rigorous thesis Aircraft and Railway Accidents of Czechoslovak operators in 1948- 1989 deals with the description, historical context and above all, with media coverage of twenty serious traffic accidents that happened in Communistic Czechoslovakia. The thesis describes and compares the media coverage of these accidents in the sample of daily press (newspaper Rude pravo and Mlada fronta). It shows how the quantity and quality of media coverage has changed and also compares the approach of both newspapers. It aims towards finding factors that might have influenced the media coverage. The aim is, to show the changes of media contents and set the findings into historical, social, political and media- theoretical context.
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Aircraft and railway accidents in Czechoslovakia and in the Czech Republic in 1960 - 2008 in daily press
Šírová, Tereza ; Bednařík, Petr (advisor) ; Jirků, Jan (referee)
Diploma thesis Aircraft and railway accidents in the Czechoslovakia and in the Czech Republic in 1960 - 2008 in the daily press describes ten serious traffic accidents (five airplane and five train accidents), the context and especially the media coverage of these accidents. The thesis describes and compares the media coverage of these accidents in the analysed daily press - in daily newspaper Rude pravo, Pravo, Mlada fronta and Mlada fronta DNES. It shows the changes in the way of media coverage. It also looks for the factors which influenced the way of media coverage. The aim is to show the changes in the methods and results of a work of a journalist and to set them into the historical, political, social and media context. Furthermore, the thesis consists some theoretical parts about aircraft and railway accidents and prevention. The media analysis is contextualised by some relevant media theories and a brief history of media in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in the analysed period.
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