Asta Cepaite, Elisabeth Stúr

Abstract
New forms of media have produced opportunities for a new kind of journalism. The technological changes have transformed the content, how it is created, the methods of news work, how news companies are organized, and the ways in which individuals use and interact with content.

The objective of this paper is to discuss the phenomena of super local news in perspective of the recent changes in local media organisations in a context of a transformed media environment. This is exemplified by the development on the Swedish local media market with focus on the role of local news in media organisations. In this paper three research questions are selected from the research field: First, what kind of changes in the organization structure and the news production has the local media organization to face? Secondly, how has the form and content of local news changed? Last, what will be the future role of the local news?

The study is based on qualitative methods. The majority of the material for the study is collected from selected Swedish local papers.

Some results of the study concerns changing procedures in content production and distribution, which require restructuring of journalists’ working methods. Production of the news becomes more rapid which can have an effect on the quality of the content. Reduction of local news offices at the same time as production of the local content is preferred influence likely who is producing the content and controlling its quality.

Keywords: Super local news, Media organization strategy. Local newspapers
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Kirsti Arjas-Kauranen, Anu Seisto

Abstract
The public discourse often promotes the idea that new forms of media will eventually replace older forms of media. What clearly appears to be happening today is that people are becoming more conscious of what is special in different forms of media. It is clear that various media are an essential part of everyday life. They belong to the routines that give the rhythm to the days but they are also used to counter-balance the work and the free time as well as the time the family spends together. According to the interviews those media that dominate time-wise were not the necessarily emotionally the most important ones. The interviews clearly showed the importance of emotional attachment especially to books but in some extent also to other print material. It is possible that the digital natives do not have an equally positive attitude towards the print media as the interviewees in this study. However it is very interesting to see the future influence of observational learning, media education and the home-based appreciation of different media on how today’s children use media as adults.

Keywords: Media use, Print media
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Sasan Gooran, Mahziar Namedanian, Henrik Hedman

Abstract
Printed dots appear bigger than their reference size in the original bitmap. This is because of the physical and optical dot gain. In order to overcome the problem original images are compensated for dot gain. The compensation is usually done by using a dot gain curve for each colour separation. In this paper we firstly show that using only one dot gain curve works well for black, but not for any of the other three colours, i.e. cyan, magenta or yellow. We also present a new approach to calculate colour values where three different curves are used for each colour separation. In order to evaluate the proposed approach we compare the results of our method with the results when only one dot gain curve is used for each colour, both for Murray-Davies and Yule-Nielsen models. In the case of only one dot gain curve for each separation we use the curve that gives a minimized ∆ELab using least squares method. The experiments and calculations show that our approach gives a better approximation of the resulting colour coordinates.

Keywords: Dot Gain, Colour Calculation, Halftone Print
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