Crisis Reporting and Journalistic Sourcing in Malaysian News

This study analyses types of source selection adopted by two online newspapers in regard to the COVID-19 reporting in Malaysia.

La desinformación en el actual contexto informativo. El caso de la pandemia del COVID-19

La presente investigación desarrolla la desinformación desde la comunicación social a partir de la actual situación de pandemia a nivel mundial, para lo cual hace referencia al trabajo desarrollado por el International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) como parte del ICFJ Global Health Crisis Reporting Forum, llevado a cabo en los primeros meses de 2020. La desinformación es abordada desde los siguientes aspectos teóricos: la comunicación política y la construcción de la noticia. Desde la comunicación política se tiene en cuenta a los actores y su constante conflicto por la imposición de la agenda política en el espacio público mediatizado.

Trends in media framing of industrial crises reporting: implication for media research in Nigeria

There has been a scholarly argument among media researchers on how best media analysts should study media perspectives on industrial crisis reporting with reference to research methods, theoretical perspectives and methods of data analysis. Content analysis and meta-analytical approach were employed to gather data from published scholarly articles and theses accessed online. One hundred and fifteen (115) studies were content analyzed, collated and identified based on those that focused their issues on media framing of labour crisis. Evidence from the studies analysed shows that the content analysis and in-depth interviews were predominantly adopted for media representations of industrial crisis, the mixed method research were adopted for data collection while media framing, agenda setting and the priming theories were mostly adopted by most of the studies. It is recommended that studies should employ critical discourse analysis to compliment researchers’ effort to examine how different ideological stances are mediated in the media to reflect social-political dominance, inequality and class struggle that characterize industrial crisis. Keywords: Industrial crisis reporting, Media framing, Research trends, Discourse analysis, Nigeria

Cynicism ex machina: The emotionality of reporting the ‘refugee crisis’ and Paris terrorist attacks in Czech Television

The article seeks to explore crisis reporters’ emotional culture. Their emotional practices are believed to lie at the core of the paradox of the traditional commitment to objectivity/detachment and witnessing other people’s suffering, and thus to be vital for understanding crisis reporting. The article, focusing on reporting the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ and the 13 November Paris terrorist attacks by Czech Television, addresses the question on how crisis reporters’ emotions are articulated by the processes of crisis reporting. The findings, based on (non-)participant observation in newsrooms and semi-structured interviews with journalists, suggest that repetitive reporting of the emotionally disturbing events and witnessing close or distant suffering may result in declared cynicism. The cynicism is understood as a prerequisite for successful performance of the job; at the same time, it is perceived as an emotional posture that threatens professional ideology.