Frekventnost portreta kao novinarskoga žanra fokusirana na čovjeka u bosanskohercegovačkim i hrvatskim dnevnim novinama
The frequency of portrait as a journalistic genre focused on an individual in bosnian-herzegovinian and croatian daily newspapers

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to investigate the frequency of the journalistic genre portrait in Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Croatian daily newspapers. It is about a form based on the life and work of an individual, and it belongs to the group of narrative genres. The focus is placed on presenting the individual, their childhood, schooling, studying, business career, hobbies and family life, but it is important to which extent are the details form the life of the individual that is written about revealed. Portraits are written about people which stand out and which draw certain attention in the public. Although portraying is possible through other genres such as interviews, features or essays, such a procedure is dominant in portrait and therefore it was chosen here. The first part of the paper brings the theoretical framework of personalization elements, theories and journalistic genres classification and portrait genre structure. The second part relates to the discussion about the research results of absolute and relative representation of portrait in newspapers totally, individually through analyzed newspapers and in news sections. The research is based on four newspapers in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia: Večernji list BiH – Mostar, Dnevni avaz – Sarajevo, Jutarnji list – Zagreb, 24sata – Zagreb. Seven issues a week over one-month period have been analyzed. The sample is based on 2669 texts. The results show an extremely low frequency of portrait genre in the analyzed daily newspaper.

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