Comparing Political Journalism
- Submitting institution
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Loughborough University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 2790
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Collection of chapters from edited book
- Open access status
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- Month
- July
- Year
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The submitting author, Stanyer, co-authored two and contributed to four chapters in this edited collection. The collection offers one of the first systematic comparative examinations of news media performance across 16 democracies. Due to the nature of the collaboration that gave rise to this collection, Stanyer’s contribution is only evident if one reads all parts of the collection included in this submission. Specifically, Stanyer contributed to the development of the theoretical framework, methodology, as well as data collection and analysis for the collection as a whole.
Theoretical framework (Chapter 3): The book focusses on six concepts widely used in content analyses: the framing of politics as a strategic game, the interpretive journalistic style, media negativity, balance, media personalization, and soft news and hard news.
Methodological framework (Chapter 2): The book is based on content analysis of more than 7,500 news stories from 16 countries, conducted by the contributors, including Stanyer. The analysis examined three newspapers, two television news bulletins, and five news websites from each country.
Of the seven analytical chapters, six focus on one of the six concepts. The chapter examining soft and hard news is co-authored by Stanyer. The findings show significant differences between public service and commercial television, and between broadsheets and tabloids, and highlight the country’s political and economic situation and the state of the media market as significantly predictors of the hard vs. soft character of news.
The final analytical chapter, also co-authored by Stanyer, explores how the six key concepts interconnect. It shows that game or strategy framed news tends to be more interpretive and negative and rather unbalanced and softer, that negativity and balance are negatively correlated, and that personalization is negatively correlated to hard news.
The closing chapter (Chapter 11) discusses the relevance of findings for regulatory interventions.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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