The Influence of News Exposure, Attitude Extremity, and News Value Assessment : On the Perception of the Amount of News Coverage

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-84
Author(s):  
Jong Hyuk Lee
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Value Assessment ◽  
News Value ◽  
Attitude Extremity

Looking over the channel: The balance of media coverage about the “refugee crisis” in Germany and the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Maurer ◽  
Jörg Haßler ◽  
Simon Kruschinski ◽  
Pablo Jost
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
British Government ◽  
News Value ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This study compares the balance of newspaper and television news coverage about migration in two countries that were differently affected by the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015 in terms of the geopolitical involvement and numbers of migrants being admitted. Based on a broad consensus among political elites, Germany left its borders open and received about one million migrants mainly from Syria during 2015. In contrast, the conservative British government was heavily attacked by oppositional parties for closing Britain’s borders and, thus, restricting immigration. These different initial situations led to remarkable differences between the news coverage in both countries. In line with news value theory, German media outlets reported much more on migration than did their British counterparts. In line with indexing theory, German news coverage consonantly reflected the consensual view of German political elites, while British news media reported along their general editorial lines.

scholarly journals News values on social media: Exploring what drives peaks in user activity about organizations on Twitter

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 633-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theo Araujo ◽  
Toni GLA van der Meer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
News Values ◽  
News Value ◽  
Twitter Users ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Twitter Activity

Since news circulation increasingly takes place online, the public has gained the capacity to influence the salience of topics on the agenda, especially when it comes to social media. Considering increased scrutiny about organizations, this study aims to understand what causes heightened activity to organization-related topics among Twitter users. We explore the extent to which news value theory, news coverage, and influential actors can explain peaks in Twitter activity about organizations. Based on a dataset of 1.8 million tweets about 18 organizations, the findings show that the news values social impact, geographical closeness, facticity, as well as certain influential actors, can explain the intensity of online activities. Moreover, the results advocate for a more nuanced understanding of the relation between news media and social media users, as indications of reversed agenda-setting patterns were observed.

Discursive Construction of News Values in the Headline

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Pingyan Li ◽  
Mengxiao Chen ◽  
Jianxin Yang
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
News Values ◽  
Middle Stage ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
News Value ◽  
News Headlines

The paper makes a discursive analysis of the news value construction in the headlines of new media news. The data chosen is 59 news headlines on coverage of Zimbabwe Crisis released in the apps of BBC from November 6th to November 18th 2017. The data indicates a chronological variance of the news values in the headlines. Specifically, eliteness and negativity are values constantly occurring in the headlines throughout the crisis report. The value of positivity appears only at the final stage of the news coverage. The value of timeliness emerges at the final four days of the news coverage. The value of suspense appears at the middle stage of the event. The value of proximity is employed when the detention just occurred. In terms of the linguistic realization of those news values, the study finds that the frequent use of some words contributed to the realization of news values. This study is important in that it reveals how language resources are used by newsmakers to construct news value in the headlines and how news values are realized in the context of communication.

scholarly journals News about newspaper advertisers: To what extent can corporate advertising budgets predict editorial uptake and coverage of corporate press releases?

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1397-1414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane A Lischka ◽  
Julian Stressig ◽  
Fabienne Bünzli
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Church And State ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Press Release ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
News Values ◽  
Corporate Advertising ◽  
News Source ◽  
News Value

News value theory aims to predict a story’s chance of being selected for publication based on news factors and ascribed news values. News values can also predict the coverage of corporate press releases. For news decisions, a newspaper’s revenue model may force editors to consider whether the source of a press release is an advertising client, despite the ‘separation of church and state’. In addition, for business journalism, corporate press releases have become an increasingly important news source. This study combines news values and advertiser weight to predict news coverage of press releases of banks in the news of partly and fully advertising-funded newspapers in Switzerland. Results show that advertiser importance can explain press release coverage concerning article length and tone in few cases, but has no universal news value. Public relations material is also not used as editorial subsidy for news. Larger companies are more successful in terms of press release uptake. However, their articles consist of a greater share of non-public relations material. Thus, our findings confirm editorial independence instead of copy-paste or obsequious journalism.

The Sky Is Falling: Predictors of News Coverage of Natural Disasters Worldwide

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 862-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Yan ◽  
Kim Bissell
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Geographic Distance ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Predicting Model ◽  
News Value ◽  
Per Se

General journalistic principles guide the ways that gatekeepers evaluate the newsworthiness of events. These principles are adapted in the field of international communication and indicate some unique features, in particular, of international disasters reporting. The current research examined the presence, amount, and length of news coverage from 3 major U.S. newspapers on 292 global natural disasters from 2004 to 2014. Results showed that U.S. newspapers had a reasonable neglect of international disasters compared with domestic ones and a disproportional favor toward huge versus smaller size disasters. A systematic predicting model was evident: Severity was the most significant and the only consistent determinant of disasters reports, followed by the intensity of deviance. Geographic distance and degree of relevance between countries failed to predict any variance of news coverage. This finding might demonstrate a return to the news value that the newsworthiness of an event should be based on the attributes of the event per se.

scholarly journals A VIOLÊNCIA COMO VALOR-NOTÍCIA NA TELEVISÃO GOIANIENSE: Informação X Audiência

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 485
Author(s):  
Fernanda Ribeiro De Lima ◽  
Ana Carolina Pessôa Rocha Temer
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
News Value ◽  
The Military

As emissoras de TV pioneiras no Brasil na década de cinquenta viram o número de concorrentes aumentar consideravelmente durante o governo militar, que distribuiu concessões em troca de apoio político. Quatro décadas depois a guerra pela audiência ficou ainda mais acirrada com o surgimento e consolidação da internet. O novo meio e a popularização dos canais fechados, roubaram os segmentos A e B da TV aberta e fizeram com que as emissoras televisivas mudassem profundamente seu conteúdo. Uma dessas mudanças foi a supervalorização da violência como valor-notícia. Considerando os gêneros jornalísticos como gêneros discursivos, quais as implicações dessa forma de exposição da violência na qualidade da cobertura jornalística e consequentemente na imparcialidade editorial?   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Violência; Jornalismo; Televisão; Objetividade.     ABSTRACT The pioneers TV stations in Brazil in the fifties saw the number of competitors increase considerably during the military government, which distributed awards in exchange for political support. Four decades after the war by the audience became even tougher with the rise and consolidation of the internet. The new way and the popularity of closed channels, stole the segments A and B of broadcast television and made the TV stations profoundly changed its content. One of these changes was the overvaluation of violence as news value. Considering the journalistic genres as discursive genres, what are the implications of this form of exposure of the violence in the quality of news coverage and consequently the editorial impartiality?   KEYWORDS: Violence; Journalism; Television; Objectivity.     RESUMEN Las estaciones de televisión pioneras en Brasil en los años cincuenta vieron el número de competidores incrementar considerablemente durante el gobierno militar, que distribuye concesiones a cambio de apoyo político. Cuatro décadas después de la guerra por la audiencia se hizo aún más dura con el surgimiento y consolidación de la Internet. El nuevo medio y la popularidad de los canales cerrados, robaron los segmentos A y B, de la televisión abierta y hicieron las cadenas de televisión cambiarse profundamente su contenido. Uno de esos cambios fue la sobrevaluación de la violencia como valor noticioso.  Teniendo en cuenta los géneros periodísticos como géneros, ¿cuáles son las implicaciones de esta forma de exposición a la violencia en la calidad de la cobertura de noticias y por lo tanto la imparcialidad editorial?   PALABRAS CLAVE: Violencia; Periodismo; Televisión; Objetividad.

scholarly journals Study of Orientation and News Coverage about Daesh Crisis in Websites of IRNA, BBC and Voice of America

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Hamidreza Yarmohammadi ◽  
Hajimohammad Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Complementary Information ◽  
Voice Of America ◽  
Soft News ◽  
News Websites ◽  
News Value ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Group Resistance ◽  
The Voice

This paper, entitled “Study of orientation and news coverage about Daesh crisis by websites of IRNA, BBC Persian and Voice of America”, comparatively explores structure and how to cover news in websites of IRNA, BBC Persian and the voice of America. The paper is conducted in descriptive-analytical method and by the way of content analysis. Data has been studied in library method. Survey and examination of existing documents as well as analysis of the content of news websites are presented in descriptive tables. The type of organization and how to cover news differ in three websites of BBC and IRNA, Voice of America. Every three websites have specifically emphasized on the element “who’’, “news value’’ and “fame’’, indicating their person-oriented and talk orientation. Finally, it was concluded that most published news are “non-productive’’ in three websites, however IRNA’s portion is more than others. Conceptually, the issue of Daesh group resistance, the employment of Jihadi groups, the effort to manifest Daesh an Islamic group, introducing Daesh governmental philosophy as an Islamic government and not mentionning to its terrorist nature has been under survey and attention of these three websites. The focus of IRNA and Voice of America is mostly on “hard news’’ but BBC concentrates on “soft news’’ or reflection of events along with complementary information. Publication of “photo’’ has been used as interactive and multi-media facilities by news websites. Unlike IRNA, websites of BBC and Voice of America have highly made use of Email and links to topics and relevant websites.

Proactive crisis communication? News coverage of international conflicts in German print and broadcasting media

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arne F Zillich ◽  
Roland Göbbel ◽  
Karin Stengel ◽  
Michaela Maier ◽  
Georg Ruhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Communication ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
International Conflicts ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
News Value ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Peace Journalism

This study examines the ambitions of proactive crisis communication in the realm of international conflicts. Based on the concept of peace journalism, the authors analyse whether German media coverage on international conflicts complies with normative demands. So far, most studies have investigated the media’s role during the climactic stages of conflicts and have neglected the pre- and post-escalation phases. Therefore, the study distinguishes four specific phases of a conflict. With regard to news value theory, it shows that international conflicts exhibit different news factors in their particular phases; in addition, it illustrates that the propositions of peace journalism, although considered relevant by journalists, are hardly being fulfilled in their day-to-day conflict reporting. Combining content analytical research with semi-structured interviews proves to be fruitful for critically reflecting the demands of proactive crisis communication.

scholarly journals Assessing the leeway of state-led strategic communication abroad: a comparison of news coverage on Austria, Germany, and Switzerland in Arabic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Häuptli ◽  
Daniel Vogler
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Strategic Communication ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Small States ◽  
High Status ◽  
International Media ◽  
News Value ◽  
German Speaking

AbstractPublic diplomacy programmes with the goal to enhance a country’s reputation and image abroad have become wide-spread practice, also among small states with little geopolitical relevance. News media offer one of the most important platforms of their implementation. But do small states have the leeway to successfully implement their communication strategies on a global scale? Are media-based public diplomacy strategies even an option for those cases? This study assesses these questions based on international media resonance of states. Relating to the theoretical approach of country news value literature, a comparative research design is implemented. It analyses news coverage on the three German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, performing a multi-level automated text analysis of 11,513 news media articles in Arabic. In accordance with existing empirical and theoretical contributions, it is shown that high-status states have more resonance-based leeway. Nevertheless, media resonance-based leeway of smaller states with lower status is caused differently, i.e. by their political, rather than their economic or military power.

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