REFUGEES IN EUROPE: ROMANIAN ONLINE MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE REFUGEE'S CRISIS.

The article discusses the way in which Romanian online media had covered the refugees which had entered in Europe between June 2015 and October 2016. The content analysis of the articles enclosed in the sample allowed us to identify the main perspectives (economic, geopolitical, delinquency, security, religious, ethnic, humanitarian, human rights) associated with refugees in Romanian media. The authors have attempted to identify the ways in which online media journalists in Romania have used these perspectives. The main focus of analysis was on the types of articles (opinion articles, reports, interviews), the sources used in reporting, the use of images, the type of media (newspaper, aggregate sites, TV sites). The analysis had pointed out the fact that journalists represented refugees using mainly the geopolitical, humanitarian and human rights perspectives. Also, in the case of this topic media used more photographs with refugees and less videos, drawings, graphics or maps related to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]