HOW NEWSWORTHY WERE THE PROTESTS IN ROMANIA FOR THE GERMAN QUALITY PRESS? CASE STUDY: SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG

Authors

  • Julia SZAMBOLICS Assistant Professor PhD, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: szambolics@fspac.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0066-9292
  • Meda MUCUNDORFEANU Lecturer PhD, Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: mucundorfeanu@fspac.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8842-9551

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeph.2017.1.03

Keywords:

newsworthy, protests, Galtung & Ruge, positive, negative

Abstract

In January 2017, the former Romanian Minister of Justice, Florin Iordache, proposed a decree to decriminalize corruption involving sums of less than 200,000 lei, as well as granting prison pardons and decriminalizing certain offences. On January the 18th, the first 5000 protesters shouted their disapproval regarding the published bills on the streets of Romania. Their number increased daily. On February the 5th, the largest protest in Romania’s history with over 500.000 people on the streets was registered. The international press covered the story of the protests in Romania, but how newsworthy was this subject for the most widely read German quality newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung? How are the Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu, the PSD-party-chief Liviu Dragnea and the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis portrayed in the articles?

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STUDIA UBB EPHEMERIDES, Volume 62 (LXII), No. 1, June 2017

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2017-06-20

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SZAMBOLICS, J., & MUCUNDORFEANU, M. (2017). HOW NEWSWORTHY WERE THE PROTESTS IN ROMANIA FOR THE GERMAN QUALITY PRESS? CASE STUDY: SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Ephemerides, 62(1), 37–48. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeph.2017.1.03

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