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Mapping Cultural Journalism: Trends, Quirks, and Writing Styles in Local and Regional Print and Online Romanian Media

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Neamțu C.
Media Literacy and Academic Research
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2025
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vol. 8
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issue 1
48-74
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This work serves as a theoretical and practical guide for journalists interested in cultural journalism’s sophisticated genres. With culture pages in daily newspapers and online platforms dwindling, often replaced by basic PR news from publishers or authors, mastering these complex texts can diversify media content. Such diversity not only informs but also educates readers, expanding their cultural horizons. The decline of cultural articles in Romanian local and regional journalism is due to journalists’ unfamiliarity with these texts and a reluctance to engage with complex, less financially rewarding subjects. The financial crisis in Romanian media reduced newsroom staff, making cultural journalism the first to suffer from space limitations and fewer writers. Consequently, the focus shifted to general local and political news. This study explores the challenges faced by Romanian local and regional press in producing intricate cultural journalism, often authored by individuals with non-literary backgrounds – such as engineers and teachers who write as a hobby. It examines the structure and genres of these texts, providing guidance for their creation. Focusing on local publications in Arad, the study highlights issues like limited funding, small editorial teams, and a preference for simpler news over in-depth cultural coverage. This paper explores the treatment of cultural journalism genres in the local and regional press in Romania, a trend observable across several European countries. These insights provide valuable guidance for aspiring journalists interested in pursuing cultural journalism. The research primarily employed content analysis, focusing on three selected local and regional publications: Jurnal arădean (the sole print publication in Arad), Special Arad, and Critic Arad, all of which are available online. To ensure comprehensive findings, over 3,000 cultural articles published between September 2017 and July 2024 were examined. Each article was analyzed to identify key journalistic characteristics and to assess the presence of cultural journalism elements through discursive analysis. A comparative approach was applied to determine how these genres are represented in both print and digital formats. The findings revealed a preference for shorter cultural texts, such as brief news pieces, articles with quotes, reports, interviews, portraits, book and theatre reviews, with more in-depth content being less frequently featured. We believe that examining the local and regional press in Arad, a prominent city in western Romania, sheds light on the overall condition of the Romanian local press.
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News in Mobile Air Raid Alert Apps and Media Literacy in Ukraine During the War Time

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Kosheliuk O., Blahovirna N.
Media Literacy and Academic Research
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2025
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vol. 8
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issue 1
178-193
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the Ukrainian mobile air raid alert apps and news they haveproduced and delivered to the Ukrainians since 2022. The authors analysed changes in the criticalperception of news information in the target audiences, including vulnerable groups of society, asthey receive information from military news integrated into two mobile applications. The first oneis Air Alert, verified by the Ukrainian government, known as “Official map of air alerts of Ukraine”.The second one is the volunteer media channel, best socially oriented IT initiative in Ukraine in2024, a mobile application Air raid alert map of Ukraine. These two applications are widely usedby Ukrainians staying at home during the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war since February 24,2022 till now. The transformation of access to information and level of critical thinking in Ukrainein accordance with the way news is disseminated in air raid alert apps is noted. We determinedthat the level of media literacy depended on alarm numbers and durations and numbers of medianews about missiles and explosions, announced alerts, artillery shells or risks of urban warfare.Our investigations are based on data analysis of 118 interviewed users of Air Alert and Air raidalert map of Ukraine apps, aged 18-85 years old, including internally displaced young people aged18-22 replaced from their birth places mostly from Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson or Zaporizhzhyaregions of Ukraine to Volyn as a safer region in the west of the country, and older persons aged50-85 years living here. In this first part of research, we found out that 37% of persons, also fromamong the vulnerable groups, followed the notifications of air raid alert applications and newsabout military actions with reference to their places of birth, residence at the time of the startof the war and residence as of 2023 and showed a greater tendency to a higher level of criticalthinking. About 63% said they couldn’t think critically after the three years of full invasion andfull-scale hybrid information and psychological operations. Critical thinking is significantly reducedin conditions of stress, negative news about death or captivity, unstable work of mobile networksand Internet providers, and often due to the impossibility of quickly verifying information. In thesecond part of the research, the news consumption models for relocated persons accordingto the way of interacting with the news content of mobile air raid alerts applications and otherchannels of receiving news were examined. In this part, the interviews with 43 respondents wereanalysed. The AI generated fake news in usual communication channels of vulnerable groups areinvestigated and factors influencing media literacy in crisis conditions are discussed.
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