Contemporary news coverage of Radio Impuls and Radiožurnál (Comparative study)

This bachelor thesis compares news coverage of two of the most significant radio stations in the Czech Republic. The first one is Radiožurnál, the main radio station of public radio Czech radio. Radiožurnál combines spoken word and music. The second one is Rádio Impuls, the most listened radio station in the Czech Republic. Rádio Impuls combines spoken word and music as well. In the first part of the thesis, the author describes the development of both stations in the Czech radio market, their financial options and their current news coverage from theoretic point of view. The author also made interviews with editors in chief of both stations. The second, practical part is the analysis of news coverage from three different angles - thematic, genre and language during one week in September 2015 and one week in January 2016. The main analysis is the thematic one and comparison of news coverage in the same topics. Results of individual analysis are completed by statistics and graphs and are processed in the end of every chapter. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org