No news isn't good news for intergroup attitudes: Exposure to outgroup members through news media predicts improved intergroup attitudes

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Sharples ◽  
Elizabeth Page-Gould
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Good News ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes

scholarly journals Media and Presidential Nomination Campaigns: When Bad News Becomes Good News (or at least a little better)

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 343-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Haynes
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Good News ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Political Learning ◽  
Presidential Nomination ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Manipulation

This paper examines the research in media and presidential nomination campaigns as it has emerged during the post-reform era and moved into the new millennia. While there has been ample progress in the field, most notable has been the change in tone in the research from “bad” news to “good” news. Interpretations from the most recent research in the area suggest that the news media do not perform as poorly as judged in the earlier decades, at least in terms of providing information to voters. Moreover, voters are now portrayed not as naïve citizens who are easily manipulated by the media, but rather more resilient to media manipulation, and active consumers of information for political learning purposes.

scholarly journals Good news media book in regional bad news year

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-212
Author(s):  
Patrick Craddock
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
News Media ◽  
National Development ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Good News ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
The Media

Media, Information and Development in Papua New Guinea is one of the most interesting books I have on Pacific media. It is a collection of different writers, some of whom are current or former journalists. Several of the authors have direct media links as staff working with the Divine Word University in Madang, a private Christian institution. For the uninitiated, the opening chapter gives an outline of the media landscape in PNG. Other chapters explore media ownership, journalism education and the role of media national development. 

News Media Organisations and Oil Spill Coverage

2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (1) ◽  
pp. 353-356
Author(s):  
Alison G. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Good News ◽  
News Story ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Scientific Training ◽  
The Impact ◽  
News Groups

ABSTRACT The news media play a key role in framing the media coverage of oil spills. It is imperative that scientists, industry and policymakers are fully tuned into the ways in which current news organisations operate. Over recent years, a growing environmental promotion industry has emerged, alongside an increasing emphasis on environmental advocacy within the commercial sector. A number of information crises (notably, the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989) have forced sections of industry to take a more proactive approach to environmental communications as potent media imagery has directly contradicted assurances that environmental protection is not compromised by their activities. Particular issues or events that capture attention tend to be highly visually appealing and resonate with deeply held beliefs and values that operate at a symbolic level. This paper examines the preliminary findings of an international online survey of environmental reporting distributed to key environmental journalist news groups and generalist journalist news groups during June and July 2002. In particular, it focuses upon the following: journalists’ views about what makes a newsworthy story; their degree of scientific training; the constraints under which they work; their main sources of information; their relationships with news sources; and the impact of editorial policy. Interviews with environment correspondents reveal that relatively few possess scientific training and they tend to rely heavily upon official sources of information. The news agendas of broadcasters closely mirror that of print journalists and there is remarkable consensus concerning ‘news values’ – the taken for granted notions about what constitutes a ‘good’ news story. Having presented the main findings of the survey, the paper concludes by arguing that what is needed is greater communication between scientists, industry and journalists leading to an increased mutual recognition of the specific constraints under which they operate.

scholarly journals Media And Cultural Heritage

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Hutagalung
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
News Media ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Good News ◽  
Media Report ◽  
Amplifying Effect ◽  
The Media ◽  
Setting Theory

In general, media coverage can have a strong influence on the reputation of a cultural heritage. Media coverage often has an effect on a cultural heritage’s reputation when ‘good’ or ‘bad’ news is reported.This amplifying effect has often been studied through the lens of agenda setting theory. The hypothesis behind the theory is that the frequency with the media report on an issue determines that issues’ salience in the minds of the general public. In other words, the media may not be successful often time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about. The news media ‘set’ the public agenda.Since people cannot possibly attend no to every little detail about the cultural heritage around them, setting in communication is important because it helps shape the perspectives through which people see all cultural heritage in the world.In generating good news coverage about a cultural heritage, communicating with the media is one of important activities that should be maintained between communication professionals (in cultural heritage) with journalists. Keywords: media coverage, agenda setting, framing news

Is More News Good News? Media Coverage of CEOs, Firm Value, and Rent Extraction

2015 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bang Dang Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Good News ◽  
Rent Extraction ◽  
Tobin's Q ◽  
Econometric Methods ◽  
Abnormal Stock Returns

This paper provides empirical evidence that media coverage of CEOs, a channel of investor recognition, significantly increases firm value, measured by Tobin’s q. The result is robust to alternative econometric methods and checks of causality. Firms with the highest level of CEO media coverage and positive coverage outperform those with the lowest levels by 8% and 7% per year, respectively, in abnormal stock returns. Media coverage also impacts CEO rent extraction through compensation. Subsequent total pay rise is 4.1% above and beyond what CEOs obtain from the increase in firm value that arises due to media coverage.

scholarly journals Paradise exposed: Is the region's Fourth Estate up to it?

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
Mary-Louise O'Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Good News ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
Fourth Estate ◽  
Political Turmoil

Should the local press bear some of the responsibility for the political turmoil that has engulfed the South Pacific, asks this article in the first of a series of regional perspectives on crises and how the news media have handled them. Great news is rarely good news for the countries involved.

Good News!

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Trepte ◽  
Josephine B. Schmitt ◽  
Tobias Dienlin
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
News Media ◽  
Good News ◽  
International News ◽  
Total N ◽  
The Us ◽  
Group A ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Better Than

Abstract. International news articles often compare different countries, favoring one country over another. On the basis of this notion, we hypothesized that when people read international news articles favoring their own country over another, they would afterwards evaluate their country (in-group) better than the other country (out-group) – a tendency referred to as positive distinctiveness in social identity theory (SIT). We further hypothesized that when people read international news articles favoring their own country, they would afterwards have better knowledge of the news articles they read. An experiment with two groups (positive vs. negative articles in terms of participants’ own national identity) was conducted in Germany and the US (total N = 364). We found that when participants read positively valenced news articles, they afterwards showed more positive distinctiveness (e.g., U.S. students believed that the US had a better national educational system than Germany). We also found that when German participants read positively valenced news articles, they demonstrated better knowledge of the articles. This effect was not found in the U.S. sample. Overall, we found support for the notion that social identity mechanisms are relevant when it comes to analyzing the effects of news media.

Issue ownership as a determinant of political parties’ media coverage

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Van Camp
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Good News ◽  
Issue Ownership ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Source Of Information

Abstract For many citizens, news media are the most important source of information about relevant political topics and actors. As a consequence, it is crucial to investigate who gains media coverage and why. Leaning on two classic news sourcing criteria, suitability and availability, we claim that issue owners can be seen as good news sources. By combining a content analysis of television news with data collected through a journalist survey, we investigate whether issue ownership is a determinant of political parties’ news coverage. Results confirm that issue ownership is a predictor of parties’ news coverage, even when controlling for ministerial competences.

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