Keyword – crisis

Zakinszky Toma, Viktória:

“According to press information.”

Migration from the Middle East, North Africa and Asia and the migration crisis got into the focus of media reporting in Central and South-East Europe after the spring of 2015 when the largest wave of migrants arrived into the region, and the topic of migration has remained a major issue in the media all around Europe until to date. It has been more or less intense, politicised, biased, over-simplified or overtly full of disinformation. In most cases, this is explained by pure ignorance, but a deliberate use of lies can also be detected. Sometimes journalists/reporters were unfamiliar with the correct terms and phrases, while sometimes there were no appropriate definitions. Using a comparative method, this paper offers a discourse analysis of Hungarian and Serbian national and regional media. These two countries are both on the ‘West-Balkan route,’ both are transit countries, not destination for migrants. However, they are in different political positions: Hungary being an EU member state, and Serbia wishing to become one. The focus of this research is on the comparative analysis of media discourses between 2016 and 2019 in Hungary and Serbia.

Keywords: asylum seekers, content analysis, crisis, discourse, Hungary, media, migrants, refugees, Serbia, Vojvodina

Tófalvy, Tamás:

Is journalism in a permanent crisis?

If one happened to be immersed in the professional and academic discourses on the nature of journalism, they would find that the debate on the assumed crisis of the profession is permanent. In the narratives discussing the potential causes of crisis there are, among other ones, economic, business, political and technological factors. This paper, focusing on the technology-centered narratives, attempts to reconstruct overarching rhetorical themes and framing patterns in crisis narratives, and tries to answer the question of whether it is possible that journalism is in a permanent crisis.

Keywords: crisis, journalism, narratives, professional norms, technology