OBJECTIVES The mass media play a crucial role in risk communication regarding climate change. The aim of this study was to investigate the trend in journalistic reports on climate change in the daily newspapers of Korea. METHODS We selected 9 daily newspapers in Korea, which according to the ABC Association, represented 77% of newspaper circulation, out of a total of 44 Korean daily newspaper...

The article is aimed at contributing to the discussion of role mass media system in political transformation. For this purpose, reporting on a issue relevant transformation was selected for tracing theoretical assumption along empirical results: hitherto taboo topic Hungarian uprising 1956. I studied how 1956 reported Hungary’s main print media, Népszabadság and Magyar Nemzet, from June 1988 19...

©AsiaPacific MediaEducator Issue No.11 July Dec. 2001 T essay examines the debate surrounding the potential impact of new technologies on traditional newspapers in the 21st Century. Using the Internet as an example, the essay compares the situation in developing African countries with the western world. Specifically the essay examines the various ways the Internet technology has impacted news c...

This research study investigates how selected mainstream Pakistani print media, Dawn and Ummat, represented the image of Afghanistan Taliban in its news coverage. The aim is to understand whether two newspapers portrayed positively or negatively. considered leftist newspaper that holds liberal views about issues Pakistan. On other hand, Ummat a right-wing with conservative views. content both w...

EFL learners who loved to read newspapers but have difficulty in comprehending. Present paper is a study on the significance of special styles of newspapers’ writing that may contribute in decreasing reading and comprehension skills for EFL learners and also is primarily concerned with the language and style of newspaper reportage. Skilled readers don’t just read, they interact with the text. T...

BACKGROUND Despite the long history, wide reach and unique influence of Black newspapers in many African American communities, no national studies have examined how these newspapers cover health and cancer issues, or reader perceptions of their coverage. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS A two-year national sample of Black newspapers (n=24) and community-matched general audience newspapers (n=12) was r...

Background: This media content analysis explored the Canadian newspapers reporting on men's health, and their contribution to public understanding of the social determinants of men's health and lifestyles. Methods: A media content analysis of 44 news articles on boys', youth's and men's health,published from 2010 to 2014 by three national newspapers (The Globe and Mail, National Post,and Metro ...

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in the UK receives intense media attention. The nature of coverage, political responses and solutions offered has been questioned and the relationship between health professionals, the media and government policy needs greater understanding. We identified 2880 articles on MRSA published in 12 UK newspapers between 1994 and 2005, compar...

Coastal resources play a vital role in Maine’s cultural and economic wellbeing, contributing an estimated 168 billion dollars to the Maine economy. There are numerous risks to the sustainability of Maine’s shellfishing industry and working waterfront, including pathogenic bacterial pollution. In this study, we ask a broad fundamental question central to science and environmental journalism: how...