Hispanic America, as a region comprising some 20 Spanish-speaking countries in the Western Hemisphere, is very diverse, but at the same time has a common history (including colonial past) and contemporary problems. The foundations of creating media systems in the countries of the region were similar, although there were also some differences, ranging from the scope of freedom of speech and media (from democratic Costa Rica to communist Cuba) and ending with the percentage of citizens with access to the Internet. One of the main characteristics of the entire region – with the exception of Cuba – is the dominance of commercial media in the press, radio and television markets and a high degree of capital concentration. The presence of international media groups, both from North America and Europe, especially from Spain (eg PRISA) is also evident. On the other hand, the concept of public media is a subject of discussion among intellectuals, politicians and practitioners in this region of the world, and the solutions adopted in individual countries show a great diversity. The significant role of university media (especially in Chile) and community media is also noteworthy. There are also regional initiatives of a political nature, such as teleSUR television based in Caracas, and economic ones, such as consortia of daily newspapers (Grupo de Diarios América, Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos). The aim of this article is therefore both to indicate common features and connecting elements, as well as the basic differences between the media systems of the Hispanic American countries.

This paper aims to examine the extreme political polarization of the United States news media through the lens of the reporting on the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Through a close reading of news articles reporting on this event from both liberal and conservative news sources, this paper argues that the insurrection was both the product of this media polarization, as well as an event which precipitated further polarization of these media sources. The results of this research demonstrate that there is indeed a major discrepancy in media coverage of this event between the two disparate sources of news. Overall, this paper demonstrates that the January 6, 2021 events provide a cognitive means by which one can best ascertain the long-standing ideological polarization of the American news media sources.

This paper discusses the conflict between Grupo Clarín, the largest media conglomerate in Argentina, and the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007–2015). In the course of the dispute, both sides have invoked arguments of free speech and democracy. In fact, the conflict between the Kirchner’s government and Grupo Clarín should be seen in a broader context. The paper formulates a hypothesis that the actual Kirchner – Clarín dispute boiled down to the struggle for maintaining political and business-political influence within the country. The article uses qualitative methods, with multiple primary and secondary sources.

The article is a comparative analysis of contemporary Native American fiction (Louise Erdrich’s novels Love Medicine and The Bingo Palace, Sherman Alexie’s short story collec­tion The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven), and the series Reservation Dogs by Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo. The aim of the article is to indicate similarities in the construction of young protagonists of the selected literary texts and the series, with an emphasis on Indian stereotype deconstruction, survival humour and the genres. This last category encompasses bildungsroman, road novel/story, homing novel/story and magical realism. The methodology used in the article includes cultural studies, postcolonialism and postmodernism. The author of the article wants to argue that many stylistic devices used in the character construction in Reservation Dogs have appeared much earlier in the canonical works of Native American fiction and Waititi and Harjo seem to enter into an intelligent dialogue with the literary tradition because similarly to it, they affirm contemporary indigenous culture, stress its connection with popular culture and very often introduce the black humour which turns Native Americans into subjects of their narratives and gives them back control over their own stories.

The article points out how the mentioned productions create the image of working as a jour­nalist in women’s magazines in pop culture texts. The aim was to show the differences and similarities between these two movies, with a particular focus on the characteristics of work specific to Generation Y. Through content analysis, it was possible to prove that despite the different characters and approaches to professional duties of the main characters – Andrea Sachs and Jane Sloan – the specifics of work in these editorial offices look similar, and the biggest difference between the two of them is the way editors-in-chief manage their teams. It was also pointed out that the media not only continue to comment on the aforementioned titles but also use them to create critical analyses related to the social paradigm shift. In addi­tion, the potential of both popular culture texts as an important part of creating an image of working in the editorial department of a women’s magazine in young people who are just thinking about choosing a career path is described.

This article examines the influence of American fashion journalism on the Polish market of fashion magazines in the interwar period. The main objective is to identify the strat­egies of fashion description in interwar Polish fashion magazines or fashion columns in women’s magazines and to map their variance according to two categories: elitist and democratising. Such tools of textual as well as visual description such as ‘magical writing,’ advice manuals, ironic writing and fashion non-fiction will be discussed. The article is the first attempt in the literature on interwar journalism in Poland to argue that fashion discourse in the domestic press mimicked the way fashion was covered in American fashion magazines.