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The article presents the discussion on Andie Tucher. Topics include papers going to use as primary sources from over three hundred years of journalism history; newspapers and magazines becoming closely associated with identifying as fake journalism; and checking the veracity of journalistic reporting or countering dominant media narratives prior to the age of social media.

The current context and changes in the communicational paradigm in the last ten years lead to think we are experiencing a moment of transition that entails the end of mass media, like different studies have concluded. Among them, the most vulnerable product is the printed newspaper, which disappearance generates few doubts. However, immersed in this moment of change, we cannot yet evaluate what means to lose a journalistic model that has prevailed for over two centuries and a half as informational reference. From this perspective, the province of Cuenca, in Castile-La Mancha, one of the two in Spain which today no longer has a printed newspaper, offers us a unique scenario to approach what kind of medium positions as leader in its place. Using a mixed methodology, based on the review of documentary sources and contents analysis, we analyse a case study that aims to collect tendencies regarding proximity media. In this case, the switching from one platform to another has devaluated very relevant journalistic genres, such as the photo news or the editorial, but also some core practices in the journalism, like the editing task on the material that arriving to the editorial offices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the August 2012 special issue of the journal "IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science." It mentions that the issue features selected papers from the 2011 Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS) Conference held in Seville, Spain on September 19-23, 2011. It adds that the journal also relies on its editorial board who reviews the articles submitted for publication.