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Foreign correspondents in Cyprus: Universal roles and contextualized practices
This study on foreign correspondence in Cyprus explores the profiles and professional values of the correspondents working on the island taking into consideration the interplay of forces operative at the level of the foreign correspondents’ professional culture the international media environment and the specific context of the country the correspondents report from and for. The study shows that the foreign correspondents working in Cyprus largely align with their colleagues in other countries as it concerns the self-perception of their main professional roles values and selection criteria. At the same time these roles values and tasks take on certain special traits accommodated both in the specificities of the foreign correspondent’s job and the Cypriot environment. This contextualized examination points to the complexity not only of studying but also of defining foreign correspondence in ever-changing environments and sheds some light on the ways in which news is built as a product of its time and its professional cultural and social milieu.
Mapping community media organisations in Cyprus: A methodological reflection
Identifying grassroots or ‘below-the-radar’ organisations such as community media organisations is a challenging task that is not always supported sufficiently by methodological literature. The objective of this article is to address this challenge by proposing a structured approach to mapping analysis: (1) driven by an (operational) definition of the social entity; (2) that allows for a population-based mapping process; (3) that uses a particular registration instrument (labelled a Mapping Index Card or MIC); (4) to process data from multiple sources; and (5) to analyse the information registered in these MICs. By zooming in on the only divided country of Europe – the island of Cyprus – this article then illustrates how to design and conduct a mapping research of community media organisations on a national scale. Other than giving an overview of the community media operating in Cyprus this mapping exercise aims to provide a methodological guide for mapping civil society and ‘below-the-radar’ organisations in general.