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- Our goal: Comparing news performancePublication . Vreese, Claes de; Esser, Frank; Hopmann, David Nicolas; Aalberg, Toril; Aelst, Peter Van; Berganza, Rosa; Hubé, Nicolas; Legnante, Guido; Matthes, Jörg; Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos; Reinemann, Carsten; Salgado, Susana; Sheafer, Tamir; Stanyer, James; Strömbäck, Jesper
- Conclusion: assessing news performancePublication . Vreese, Claes de; Reinemann, Carsten; Esser, Frank; Hopmann, David Nicolas; Aalberg, Toril; Aelst, Peter Van; Berganza, Rosa; Hubé, Nicolas; Legnante, Guido; Matthes, Jörg; Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos; Salgado, Susana; Sheafer, Tamir; Stanyer, James; Strömbäck, JesperAt the outset, we asked if there is any good news about the news and, if so, where the good news is. In academic research and public discussions about news and democracy, one finds different interpretations of the state of current news provision. A tendency towards pessimism about current news performance is commonplace. Although there is an overall proliferation of both traditional and newer forms of online news availability and supply (Esser, de Vreese et al. 2012), many suggest that the performance of news providers is getting worse. In more or less explicit terms, the decreasing quality of news is seen as having a negative impact on the quality of political life and democracy. Set against the pessimism and caution in the public debate and literature on news quality and the performance of political journalism, we were not optimistic that we would find good-quality news or that we would be able to offer some good news as a positive antidote, so to speak, to the pervasive pessimism in the literature.
- Cross-conceptual architecture of newsPublication . Reinemann, Carsten; Scherr, Sebastian; Stanyer, James; Aalberg, Toril; Aelst, Peter Van; Berganza, Rosa; Esser, Frank; Hopmann, David Nicolas; Hubé, Nicolas; Legnante, Guido; Matthes, Jörg; Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos; Salgado, Susana; Sheafer, Tamir; Strömbäck, Jesper; Vreese, Claes deWhile the other chapters in this volume have treated each of the six key concepts in depth, it is important to consider the relationships between them and the extent to which they are interconnected. Indeed, some scholars have made connections, at least theoretically, between a number of different developments (e.g., Patterson 1993). Several advantages flow from such a cross-conceptual approach. Specific concepts can be related to each other, which gives readers some idea of how they may interact. For example, the degree of personalization and negativity in the news may be related but may also operate independently. understanding these cross-concept relationships further can improve our insights into journalists' processes of news construction, It is highly likely that decisions about the selection and construction of news are based on a combination of content features rather than on individual features of events or topics. This line of reasoning was already a key idea in the early studies on news factors, which hypothesized that different content features would add up to the specific news value of an event (e.g., Galtung and Ruge 1965).