Geography of news in the print media, according to the geographic level!

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is the observation and analysis of the geography of news in the print media in Albania. Six daily newspapers, which represent four different types of print media, have been studied for 30 days on news geography, based on five geographic levels. First, the continental news (European); second, Balkan news; third, national news; forth, regional news (county), and finally, local news. The analysis has been carried out in several areas simultaneously; first, for each geographic area the Information topics have been monitored based on the common structure of the Albanian print media; political, economic, social, cultural, art, daily news, etc. Secondly, the genre through which the information is conveyed (news, analysis / commentary, reportage (feature), interview) has been highlighted and also it has been studied if the genre is defined depending on the country of the origin of information. Finally, there has been monitored the news authorship for each geographical level, and from where the news is reported.

This article ascertains the interrelation of the information, based on the geographical concept, the reasons for reporting, and specifics of this reporting.

The methodology used is that of the measurement and analysis of the product / information in the press, of course, based on the theoretical literature. There have been chosen some daily newspapers published in Tirana; daily newspapers that are the official papers of the main political parties, respectively “Zëri i Popullit” and “Rilindja Demokratike”; two self-declared independent media, respectively “55” and “Dita”; a daily newspaper of the centre “Panorama” and a daily newspaper which is an ‘extension’ of some other business activities, “Mapo”.

This is a quantitative and qualitative analysis.