Journalism and Media

The phenomenon of daily news podcasts, which has emerged due to the success of The Daily, launched by The New York Times in 2017, has spread to major newspapers around the world in just a few years. This research aims to explore this phenomenon and contribute new knowledge regarding the digital transformation of the written press. To analyze the objectives, characteristics, and production routines of daily news podcasts, several in-depth interviews were conducted, along with a content analysis of a sample of episodes produced by the Spanish newspapers ABC, El Mundo, and El País, which were selected due to their prominence. The results show that these podcasts have emerged in Spain to reinforce brand awareness and increase audience share, and, due to their impressive audience figures, they have become well-established news products. In newsrooms, specialized teams seek the cooperation of executives, correspondents, and special correspondents, who have taken a leading role in production routines.

This paper examines how the Malka Leifer child sexual abuse crisis, mediatised across Australian mainstream, local and social media, impacted the Australian Jewish community. Guided by framing theory, this study uses mixed methods: a news framing analysis of ABC, The Age, the Herald Sun and the Australian Jewish News across four critical discourse moments, and “peer conversation” focus groups across Jewish denominations. Findings reveal that, despite news media’s intentions, coverage consistently adopted an “otherness” frame when reporting Jewish community issues. Such simplified and limited approaches to news framing contrast with the multi-faceted nature of the ethnoreligious Jewish identity, exacerbating vulnerability in a community already navigating the legacies of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and triggering responses ranging from engagement to unjustified notions of shame. The article argues that more reflexive reporting practices are needed to recognise the community’s multidimensional identities and mitigate harm in future public crises.

Since the development of the scientific field of gender studies starting in the late 1960s, both as an unexplored scientific area of interest and as a social, cultural, and political request, a lot of “ink” (and web content) has flowed [...]