Comparing Political Journalism

Editors
Publication date 2017
ISBN
  • 9781138655850
  • 9781138655867
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781315622286
  • 9781317222552
Series Communication and Society
Number of pages 200
Publisher London: Routledge
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
Abstract
Comparing Political Journalism is a systematic, in-depth study of the factors that shape and influence political news coverage today.

Using techniques drawn from the growing field of comparative political communication, an international group of contributors analyse political news content drawn from newspapers, television news, and news websites from 16 countries, to assess what kinds of media systems are most conducive to producing quality journalism.

Underpinned by key conceptual themes, such as the role that the media are expected to play in democracies and quality of coverage, this analysis highlights the fragile balance of news performance in relation to economic forces.

A multitude of causal factors are explored to explain key features of contemporary political news coverage, such as Strategy and Game Framing, Negativity, Political Balance, Personalization, Hard and Soft News

Comparing Political Journalism offers an unparalleled scope in assessing the implications for the ongoing transformation of Western media systems, and addresses core concepts of central importance to students and scholars of political communication world-wide.
Document type Book (Editorship)
Note Available in university library UvA.
Language English
Related publication Our goal: Comparing news performance How we did it: approach and methods The explanatory logic: factors that shape political news Cross-conceptual architecture of news Conclusion: Assessing news performance Strategy and game framing
Published at https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622286
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