As elsewhere in the world (Frölich & Holtz-Bacha, 2003; Murray & Moore, 2003), journalism in South Africa is still, after decades, trying to find its niche within the university scholarly environment. Since the turn to democracy in 2004, journalism and journalism education have experienced profound changes. Technologically, reporting has moved from a position where conventional printed media, r...

The main purpose of this article is to present the key features New Journalism outlined in Hunter S. Thompson’s reportages. research focused on such texts as Hell’s Angels, Fear and Loathing Las Vegas Kentucky Derby Is Decadent Depraved. In these reportages reader can find reflections related journalist’s profession. American reporter repeatedly confronts ‘the old press’ with ways working typic...

This article examines how and why Israeli journalists use their military service as a shield in response to online violence digital hate. practice, termed here the military-as-alibi strategy, is highly consequential. First, it excludes citizens who are exempt from (mostly Palestinian of Israel ultra-orthodox Jews). Second, affirms presumption that “good journalists” not be measured by reporting...

Historically, the role of journalism in society is bound to prevailing conceptualization freedom press, specific societal, institutional, and material conditions news production. This study explores self-perceptions journalists working period socialist Yugoslavia synthetizes their recollections journalistic orientations performances with respect journalism’s place society. The based on oral his...

Links between commerce and journalism have existed since William Caxton introduced the printing press to England. What is different today is the massive scale of these connections, and the corresponding intensity of the pressures on journalism’s greatest traditions and most noble aspirations. These pressures are especially acute in the current global economic climate, which, in conjunction with...

1196 an embarrassing corrective lesson. The wrong-doings of the media are not as common as is often claimed. Scientific research is also an overwhelmingly honest profession. But both the media and scientists have misled the public on some important matters. And when it comes to uncovering fraud, freedom of the press and an editor who backs an investigative reporter can be superior to the mechan...

During the First World War, the horror of facial mutilation was evoked in journalism, poems, memoirs and fiction; but in Britain it was almost never represented visually outside the professional contexts of clinical medicine and medical history. This article asks why, and offers an account of British visual culture in which visual anxiety and aversion are of central importance. By comparing the...

Newspapers are evolving and this causes great changes in how newspapers reach their consumers, but also in how newspapers work internally. Advanced computerised support is needed in order to cope with the new needs, which require that machines are aware of a greater part of the underlying semantics. Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies are clear candidates for web-wide semantics. However, n...

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This paper investigates the opposing definitions of legitimate journalism between female and male sports reporters in Swiss daily press, observable through tensions division work, task hierarchies, contradictory what is perceived as distasteful or undesirable. It aims to adopt an inclusive approach that avoids being judgemental towards perspectives adopting a cynical view journalists, better un...