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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).
- The Euro Crisis’ Actors and their Roles: Politicization and Personalization of the Press CoveragePublication . Hubé, Nicolas; Salgado, Susana; Puustinen, LinaThis study investigates the depiction and complexity of actors in the print news coverage of the Euro Crisis between 2010 and 2012. Based on an empirical study of 40 newspapers from ten European countries, we examined the role and visibility of different types of actors. We also looked at two important assumptions from the political communication and the European studies’ literature: the trend towards the personalization of political news; and the relapse in Europeanization, which suggests that the Euro Crisis has contributed to further empower both the national governments over the European institutions and some countries over the others. Our main conclusions point to a personalized news coverage, mostly dominated by the views of national political leaders and economic actors. Finally, we discuss some of the reasons behind these features of the news coverage and their implications for the development of European integration and for the actual existence of a European public sphere.
- How we did it: approach and methodsPublication . Hopmann, David; Esser, Frank; Vreese, Claes de; Aalberg, Tori; Aelst, Peter Van; Berganza, Rosa; Hubé, Nicolas; Legnante, Guido; Matthes, Jörg; Papathanasssopoulos, Stylianos; Reinemann, Carsten; Salgado, Susana; Sheafer, Tamir; Stayner, James; Strömbäck, Jesper
- Interpretive JournalismPublication . Salgado, Susana; Strömbäck, Jesper; Aalberg, Toril; Esser, FrankIn summary one-third of the political coverage analyzed in the 16 countries was found to contain interpretive journalism, with some countries - including France and the United States - making use of it much more than the rest. Indeed, the story genres and the interpretive journalism used in the various countries differ substantially, indicating distinct motives and news cultures. A multivariate analysis conducted to identify the most powerful predictors of interpretive journalism finds that, first, upmarket newspapers and mass-market newspapers are more likely to be interpretive than online news; second, commercial television news is more likely to be interpretive than public service television news; and third, interpretive journalism is further boosted by high competition among television channels. The chapter concludes with a cautionary note warning against overhasty conclusions about the international prevalence of interpretive journalism and the linkage between it and media types or outlets without first examining specific contexts.
- Political BalancePublication . Hopmann, David Nicolas; Aelst, Peter Van; Salgado, Susana; Legnante, GuidoThe current chapter is divided into two parts. In the first part, we follow the preceding chapters and provide an overview of political balance in news coverage in 14 European democracies and the United States and focus more closely on the differences across media types. These analyses show that balance in terms of visibility and tone is a structural feature of political news coverage across countries and outlets. In the second part, we try to explain why some parties get more attention than others across countries and why some parties receive more favorable coverage and others less. We will contrast the regulative approach with the journalistic approach. In this way, this chapter contributes to the scholarly debate on which factors drive the general production of news coverage. Note that unlike the previous chapters in this book, we did not include the Netherlands in this chapter's analyses - hence the l5 countries. The data gathered on the Netherlands covered postelection coalition negotiations and a replacement of government, rendering it difficult to define some of the independent variables used in the analyses. The chapter will end with a discussion highlighting the implications of our findings and sketching directions for future research.