AbstractPurpose/Aim: The aim of this essay is to paint a picture of science News reporting in the Swedish Public Service science programme, vetenskaps-radion. Key issues to be adressed are: What areas in science are prioritised? How much of the total broadcast time are devoted to each area? Are there any differences in reporting between weeks? How well does the swedish science radio match common interets? Are the News in the form of short ?soundbites? or are they more lengthy in-depth?Material/Method: Quantitative analysis of radio programmes. The variables used are based on the different major areas in natural sciences.Main results: This study shows that most broadcast time is devoted to News regarding biology and medicine and that the News rather are in the form of short snippets of News than more lengty in-depth stories. This is put in light of how journalistes tend to present News and that the subjects involved has to relate to peoples everyday lives.

Today most people are in agreement that the media industry is in crisis. Many Newsrooms cut down on staff. At the same time the PR industry is growing. We wanted to research if this could affect the unbiased and independent News in our News media today. Today's Newsrooms receive a lot of press releases every day.

This is a qualitative study of how some journalists on the Swedish national media are using social media in News work. The study, carried out by using interviews, also covers how these journalists' work is influenced by social media. For the journalists in the study social media has become a tool to do research, get News ideas and find interviewees. At the same time social media affects the work of the journalists, as the social media increases the speed of News and flow of information. Even though they involve some challenges, social media facilitates News work and the journalists in this study have a positive attitude towards the phenomenon.Keywords: Social media, News journalism, the national media..

Our digital society encompasses nowadays different channels, which includes social media where many users consider it as a platform where they can fetch News or exchange News and information. This leads to a large spread of News exchange in a very fast speed, which involves the global users within social media to be a part of this social interaction. This study is focused on how Twitter affects the usage of the user?s News consumption. By reaching out to our specific target audience, which includes Twitter users in Sweden, we made a web based survey with a content of relevant questions.

In this paper we have studied how young adults read News on the internet. The purpose was to seehow the consumers of News were irritated by the adverts on News sites depending on whichplatform they used, a computer or an portable reading device of the brand Apple iPad. Observationsand surveys were conducted on ten people. The News sites we used for this study were www.SvD.seand www.expressen.se. The result show that a majority experienced that their News consumptionwere irritated by advertising, mostly on Expressen's News site because it wasn't perceived asforeseeable..

This qualitative study examines News values in local journalism. The study is based on the results of five personal interviews with journalists and editors at the Newspaper Nerikes Allehanda. The purpose of this paper is to examine how News values is made in the editorial process. The essay also intends to compare possible differences and similarities between News for web and printed News, the focus will consistently be locally.This will be explored through qualitative interviews with local journalists and editors. All working for the Newspaper Nerikes Allehanda in Örebro..

The purpose of this study is to show which content that is most common in the Swedish News Agency TT Nyhetsbyrån?s sports coverage. It also shows if the coverage is concentrated to for example any special sports, clubs, people or topics.This study uses a quantitative content analysis and the result is based on texts from 28 systematically selected days during one year. In total, the study includes 906 texts.The result of this study shows that the sports content of TT Nyhetsbyrån?s News feed is mainly concentrated to two sports, football/soccer and ice hockey.

Less diversity and more homogenization in the media`s News range is the subject for our bachelor thesis. By analyzing and comparing three separate weeks in two of Sweden's largest evening Newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen we wanted to discoverhow the diversity between the two Newspapers had changed over the years, more precisely from 1993 until now. Had there been a homogenization or not? We wanted to study this because it is a long going debate about the News stories becoming more and more the same. An important debate because less diversity in News events and News presentation may lead to less diversity in public opinions and knowledge.

In this study, we looked at how balanced the various christian denominations in Sweden were raised in the News, on the basis of the requirement for balanced reporting. To measure the balance, we utilized Harcup and O'Neill?s News values and studied to what degree these values occurs in association with News articles that address the various denominations. The following denominations were selected for this study; Word of Life, the Pentecostal Church, Jehovah's witnesses, the Catholic Church, the Salvation Army and the Swedish Church. These denominations were then studied on the basis of News values in four of Sweden?s largest News organisations, in terms of audience numbers.

User comments:Availability and Utilization in Online News Affiliated with Local Daily PressAuthor: Susanne AlmgrenSupervisor: Mats EkströmConstituent: Dagspresskollegiet (Annika Bergström/Ingela Wadbring)Course: Term Paper in Media and Communication StudiesTerm: Spring Term 2012Pages/word count: 91 pages / 38 334 wordsObjective: To examine the users availability to the user comment feature and how theusers utilizes the user comment feature in the context of an online News site affiliatedwith local daily press.Method: Mixed methods approach, content analysis and discourse analysisMain result: In this context, three out of four News stories (76.5 percent) has beenallocated with the user comments feature. The highest availability to the user comment feature was found in News themes covering sports and entertainment, followed by financial News. News stories lacking the user comment feature weremainly found in News themes concerning crimes and accidents. The user comment frequencies are not normally distributed along News stories. On the contrary, 62 percent of the News stories did not get any user comments at all.

This paper is based on a quantitative survey. The study aims to answer the questionwhich media young people rather use to take part of the News. The results showthat young people today in Kalmar preferably and often read Newspapers on theInternet and mobile phone.The questions asked was about which media they usually use, the level ofconfidence they had in various media, how interest was in different Newscategories, willingness to pay for online News and background issues relatedsubjects. The survey was aimed at high school students in Kalmar and weredistributed and collected on-site at the schools. What was remarkable among theresponses was that young people largely had access to a morning Newspaper athome and said that they would consider subscribing to one in the future.

The purpose of this study was to investigate if female and male reporters and interviewees get the same amount of time in the News feature in the Swedish News programs TV4-Nyheterna and SVT 1 Rapport. The aim of this study was also to investigate if there is a breakdown of the reporting lines between male and female reporters, that is, if they are reporting on various topics. In our study we also determined if the two television channels in any way are different when it comes to gender.Our main theory was that men are overrepresented both among reporters and interviewees and that they are dominant in both hard and soft News. We thought that SVT 1Rapport would have a better gender balance than TV4-Nyheterna because SVT 1 has been working on gender issues for a long time.We were using a quantitative content analysis to examine the 19:30 News on SVT 1 Rapport and 22:00 News on TV4-Nyheterna for two weeks in November 2010. We examined domestic and foreign News and determined how much time each sex got.

This paper is based on a quantitative survey. The study aims to answer the questionwhich media young people rather use to take part of the News. The results showthat young people today in Kalmar preferably and often read Newspapers on theInternet and mobile phone.The questions asked was about which media they usually use, the level ofconfidence they had in various media, how interest was in different Newscategories, willingness to pay for online News and background issues relatedsubjects. The survey was aimed at high school students in Kalmar and weredistributed and collected on-site at the schools. What was remarkable among theresponses was that young people largely had access to a morning Newspaper athome and said that they would consider subscribing to one in the future.

The aim of this study is to examine how the public responds to the journalists? use of subjectivity in the reporting of broadcasting News. The investigation is a qualitative study based on nine interviews with respondents in ages of 21 to 25 from different parts of Sweden. After showing five examples of News reporting with a subjective approach, the respondents gave their look on the use of subjectivity. The theoretical frame of the investigation is founded on the theory of framing (de Vreese, 2005; Entman, 1993) and the discussion concerning the terms objectivity and subjectivity (e.g.

This paper is based on a quantitative survey. The study aims to answer the questionwhich media young people rather use to take part of the News. The results showthat young people today in Kalmar preferably and often read Newspapers on theInternet and mobile phone.The questions asked was about which media they usually use, the level ofconfidence they had in various media, how interest was in different Newscategories, willingness to pay for online News and background issues relatedsubjects. The survey was aimed at high school students in Kalmar and weredistributed and collected on-site at the schools. What was remarkable among theresponses was that young people largely had access to a morning Newspaper athome and said that they would consider subscribing to one in the future.