Tracing Corporate Influences on Press Content: a summary of recent NewsWatch Canada Research

Hackett, Robert A.; Uzelman, Scott

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“…Perhaps this may be understood in terms of journalistic tendencies often associated with for-profit media-including those involving print journalism. Apparently, particularly in the last few decades, media companies have increasingly been orienting their journalistic practices to align with professional market research findings about the preferences of their readership (e.g., Attaway-Fink, 2004;Beam, 1995;Hackett & Uzelman, 2003;Picard, 2004). This is intended to enable a media firm to maximize its readership, thus maintaining or augmenting its profit.…”

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Print Media Representations of Science Fairs

Bowen

Bencze

2009

Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Educati

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Science fairs are an almost unavoidable experience for students at some stage in public school. This paper examines how student projects and science fairs-and, by extension, professional science-are portrayed in newspaper media coverage of national and local science fairs. Despite a high student participation rate and a high number of science fairs (100+ regional fairs/year), media coverage is infrequent. Of the newspaper coverage that does occur, much of it reflects four ideological themes: i) Science is competitive, ii) Science is instrumentalist, iii) Commodification of science, and (iv) Corporatism. Notably, we found that detailed descriptions of student involvement in science investigations were infrequent. We conclude by posing questions for possible future action, both in regards to the media discussing the ideologies identified earlier, and for shifting focus to more about the student projects themselves and the student participation in those projects. Résumé:Pour lesélèves desécoles publiques, les expo-sciences sont une expérience pratiquement inévitable au cours de leursétudes. Cet article analyse la façon dont les projetsétudiants et les expo-sciences-et donc, par extension, les sciences professionnelles-sont traités dans la pressé ecrite nationale et locale. Malgré le nombreélevé d'expo-sciences réalisés (plus de 100 d'exposciences régionaux par année au Canada), et malgré un très bon taux de participation de la part desétudiants, il est peu fréquent que cesévénements soient couverts par les médias. La couverture existante reflète principalement quatre thèmes idéologiques : 1) la compétitivité des sciences, 2) l'instrumentalisme des sciences, 3) la commercialisation des sciences, et (4) le corporatisme des sciences. Notre analyse montreégalement que les comptes-rendus détaillés de la participatioń etudiante aux recherches scientifiques sont plutôt rares, et que la plupart du temps ces comptes-rendus sont centrés sur les projets qui se sont vu attribuer des prix. Nous concluons en posant des questions qui ouvrent certaines avenues d'action, notamment pour faire en sorte que les articles soient plus centrés sur les projets eux-mêmes et sur la participationétudianteà ces projets, au lieu d'un traitement limité aux idéologies mentionnées plus haut.

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Print Media Representations of Science Fairs

Bowen

Bencze

2009

Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Educati

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“…Because the sample is small, the results must be considered indicative rather than definitive; our aim here is to encourage further development and testing of hypotheses in a relatively under-researched area. Nevertheless, particularly when read in the context of conclusions emerging cumulatively from the NewsWatch project and other research (Hackett & Gruneau, 2000;Hackett & Uzelman, 2003), they are suggestive.…”

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Covering Democracy's Forum: Canadian Press Treatment of Public and Private Broadcasting

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Hacket²,

Stewart³

2005

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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“…From the responses it can be observed that commercial media have become increasingly profit oriented: their goal is to maximize audience numbers, especially of those audiences in whom advertisers are most interested, namely, those who have the money to spend (see Boyd-Barrett 2004), instead of focusing on public interest. Advertiser influence on journalists' decisions can therefore be considered corporate influence in two ways: the internal profit imperative of commercial news outlets to attract revenues and the external expectations of advertisers and advertising firms, which tend to be large corporations themselves (see Hackett and Uzelman 2003).…”

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A clash between journalistic and capitalist values? How advertisers meddle in journalists’ decisions at the Nation Media Group in Kenya

Maweu

2014

Journal of African Media Studies

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This article seeks to examine how advertisers meddle in journalists' ethical decisions at the Nation Media Group (NMG) inKenya. Grounded in the critical political economy of the media tradition, it is argued in the article that, in the highly commercialized media environment in Kenya today, market forces pose the greatest threat to media freedom and responsibility. Through in-depth qualitative interviews of twenty journalists from the NMG, the article shows how the expectation of private media to be purveyors of public interest while trying to maximize profits for shareholders leads to a clash of journalistic and capitalist values. The article answers the following questions: how do advertisers meddle in journalists' ethical decisions at the Nation Media? How do journalists respond to advertisers' influence? How does their response compromise their professional ethics? The findings show that there is a clash of journalistic values and capitalist values as journalists strive to meet shareholders' expectations and maximize profits for owners.

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Tracing Corporate Influences on Press Content: a summary of recent NewsWatch Canada Research

Cited by 29 publications

References 9 publications

Print Media Representations of Science Fairs

Print Media Representations of Science Fairs

Covering Democracy's Forum: Canadian Press Treatment of Public and Private Broadcasting

A clash between journalistic and capitalist values? How advertisers meddle in journalists’ decisions at the Nation Media Group in Kenya

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