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Insights gained depend on the questions asked. This chapter describes the why
and the how of our study's approach. After outlining some principal research
interests of comparative news analyses, we introduce a theoretical hierarchy of
influences that needs to be observed in order to understand the construction of
media content. In fitting this model to the specific requirements of our study, we
emphasize, in particular, the importance of integrating event-centered and mediacentered
considerations, of incorporating an explicit comparative perspective, and
of applying appropriate strategies of data analysis. The main part of the chapter
introduces the explanatory factors that are used in this study to elucidate crossnational
and cross-organizational differences in joumalists' use of the six core
concepts of political news. The explanatory factors are systematized according
to their level of analysis, and we provide a great many examples to illustrate
their use in this study, together with concrete operationalizations. We conclude
by situating our own approach in the recent development of explanation-oriented
comparative news research.
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Political news Poltical journalism
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Esser, F., De Vreese, C., Hopmann, N., Aaberg, T., Van Aelst, P., Berganza ...Strömbäck, J. (2017). The explanatory logic: factors that shape political news. In C. de Vreese, F. Esser & D. Hopmann (Eds.), Comparing Political Journalism, 22-32. London & New York: Routledge