Diseases in the Tabloids: Mapping Newspaper Narratives on Lassa Fever Epidemic in Nigeria

Lassa fever is a recurrent endemic disease in Nigeria with increasing seroprevalence in many parts of the country. In the absence of effective preventive vaccines, the mass media are being deployed as independent and complementary interventions to sensitise the public on appropriate measures for mitigating the spread of the disease. This study evaluates the different coverage patterns and frames that dominate newspaper narratives on Lassa fever epidemic in Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 420 editions of six leading Nigerian newspapers published between January 2015 and December 2019. Findings showed that although the epidemic was frequently mentioned in newspaper articles, its coverage was mainly episodic with little media prominence, and its framing was too inadequate to compel the desired public health response. Hence, the study recommends that journalists and newspaper editors must dutifully engage in the publication of Lassa fever outbreak preparedness articles to significantly curb the spread of the disease in Nigeria.

Kod Etika Kewartawanan Malaysia dan Kepentingannya kepada Profesionalisme Wartawan Akhbar Berbahasa Melayu di Malaysia

Malaysian Journalism Code of Ethics was introduced in 1989 by Malaysian Press Institute (now known as MPI) and the Newspaper Editors’ Association (ONE) has paves the way for the rising of professionalism in national journalism. According to Djohn E. Drewry, there is a need to form an ethic to elevate a career into a professional. Furthermore, with the advancement of media technology and communication, it threatens the careers of journalists and requires into the debates or re-evaluation done on this topic, more so now when journalism work are easily regulated by the public. Do journalists use the existing code of ethics and what is its importance to the professionalism of a journalist’s career? This question needs to be answered by journalists as the use of this code of ethics is still less even though the importance is recognized by many scholars. This study utilises the quantitative approach, whereby 272 journalists from five Malay language newspaper were asked to answer a questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed randomly and analyzed descriptively. This study found that the majority of journalists knew about the Code of Ethics (EKM) and its importance in elevating the professionalism of journalism in Malaysia. Findings from the study also found that journalists possess a high level of ethics according on the practice of the eight EKM.

A critical discourse analysis of the Pakistani newspaper headlines on the federal budget for FY 2021-2022

This research study is based on the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of news headlines of different Urdu and English newspapers on the federal Pakistani budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022. This research is descriptive qualitative in its nature. Fairclough (1995a) model of three dimensions (text, discourse and social practice) was used to analyse text. 21 different headlines from renowned Pakistani national Urdu and English newspapers on June 12, 2021, were collected through purposive sampling techniques of data collection. The study highlights the concealed ideology of newspaper editors who aims to arouse masses by using stirring vocabulary. The significance of this study lies in the vocabulary of news items of newspapers headlines which serve as an important medium of presenting ideologies. Thematic and the linguistic analysis of newspaper headlines highlight those newspapers are concealed with important orientations for readers. The study draws the conclusion that news headlines represent editors’ ideologies on their political inclinations and alignment in spite of their claim to be impartial. The newspaper editors exploit headlines to form a way of thinking on issues of national concern to achieve their political interests.

The role of archival documents in the study of the life and work of ancestors

Statya v podrobnostyax, so ssylkoy na arxivnыe materialy raskrыvaet praktiches- ki ves period deyatelnosti vidnogo prosvetitelya Maxmudkhodji Bexbudi, odnogo iz yarkix predstaviteley djadidskogo dvijeniya nachala XX v. Not in manuscript but not in izvestnym avtobiograficheskim dannym, a po istoricheskim dokumentam, v chastnosti, «Knige resheniy» i «Knige aktov» kaziyskix sudey Samarkandskoy oblasti, xranyashchimsya v Natsionalnom archive respubliki, author issleduet nauchnuyu deyatelnost Maxmud- xodji Bexbudi, obrashchaet vnimanie na svedeniya, raskrыvayushchie geografiyu puteshest- viy prosvetitelya. Cherez kommentarii dokumentov my uznaem o M.Bexbudi kak izda- tele and newspaper editors and magazines. Kak podcherkivaet author stati, archive doku- menty predstavlyayut ogromnыy interes v izuchenii jizni i tvorchestva Maxmudxod- ji Bexbudi.

Help wanted: A qualitative study of what newspaper editors consider when hiring journalism school graduates

This research examines what skills are needed by legacy newspaper hiring editors of their new employees hired after journalism school, including writing and reporting skills for print and online, coding, data scrubbing and analysis, and design skills. Moreover, this article highlights, for the first time, that the perceived disconnect between legacy newspaper editors and journalism academic administrators is, in fact, real.

Fenomena Berkurangnya Misleading Advertising pada Iklan Baris di Surat Kabar (Penegakan Etika Periklanan untuk Perlindungan Konsumen)

Classified ads in newspapers are a form of advertisement widely used by small businesses or individuals who offer goods and services. This study aims to describe and explain the phenomenon of classified advertisements that often occur in newspapers, especially local newspapers, and to identify how far classified advertisements in newspapers follow advertising ethics and legislation so that readers as advertising objects are not misled by the information contained in the advertisements. This type of research is normative-empirical, which uses a qualitative approach. The research examines legislation, regulations that discuss advertising and consumer protection and empirically dig up information in the field about classified ad impressions in newspapers that are considered misleading advertising, and makes observations and digs up information to competent parties with the problem under study. The results showed that some classified advertisements in local newspapers with limited information made the advertisements misleading advertising. Still, there was the fact that there was a significant decrease in the number of classified ads in local newspapers as well as a reduction in the number of misleading advertising that was caused. This phenomenon is caused by 1) the number of classified advertisements as a whole has decreased drastically 2) The awareness of newspaper editors regarding consumer protection for advertisement readers in newspapers has begun to be implemented by accommodating Indonesian Pariwara Ethics, Law No: 8/1999 on Consumer Protection, Law No: 40/1999 concerning PRESS, Law No: 7 1996 concerning Food, and PP No.69 concerning Food Label and Advertising. 3) Much online advertising space, both paid and free, is also the cause of the reduction in misleading advertisements in newspapers today.

The Political Weaponization of Gun Owners

This chapter analyzes the editorials (1930–2008) from the National Rifle Association's (NRA) American Rifleman magazine, along with gun-related letters to the editor of four major newspapers covering that same period, to document how the NRA created a distinct social identity built around gun ownership, charting the NRA's assiduous, long-term efforts — through not just its membership communications but also its popular firearms programs — to cultivate such an identity and to connect it to politics. The chapter uses the American Rifleman as a measure of the organization's views and priorities and treat pro-gun letters to newspaper editors as a measure of the attitudes and views of NRA supporters. It also utilizes the letters from gun owners to measure their feelings about guns over time. The chapter demonstrates how the NRA has used this identity to mobilize its supporters into politics by portraying gun owners' ways of life as under threat from gun control proposals and imploring its members to take action in defense of it.