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American Print Press About Ukrainian President’s Inauguration: in-depth Analysis of Story Coverage Sufficiency

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2020;
Volume 4
: 108-116
https://doi.org/10.23939/sjs2020.01.108
Authors:
  1. Yuriy Zaliznyak
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Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

The article is targeted at the examination of quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the articles in the US print media — dedicated to the inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky as Ukraine’s new President in May 2019. In this paper the author is describing particular traces of analytical reporting and prognosis performed by American print press authors covering international political issues. The matter of interest here is obvious after the appearance of Ukraine and country’s new president as a disturbing factor for the US political life — taking into consideration Donald Trump’s unsuccessful impeachment process. There are five print versions of well known in the US and worldwide newspapers in the focus of the research — The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and USA Today. All of them are in top-10 popular print media in the country but at the same time have different editorial concepts from the point of view of their audiences’ key news interests.

American print press; international political journalism; Ukrainian presidential elections; inauguration; Russian aggression; democracy; oligarchy
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