Changes in Political News Coverage: Personalization, Conflict and Negativity in British and Dutch Newspapers

Vliegenthart, Rens; Boomgaarden, Hajo G.; Boumans, Jelle W.

doi:10.1057/9780230294783_6

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“…Surprisingly, most content analyses towards conflict frames fail to take into account different types of conflict frames and look at the more general definition of conflict framing (Semetko and Valkenburg 2000) or conflict and co-operation (Vliegenthart, Boomgaarden, and Boumans 2011). To summarize, the wide array of conceptualizations and thus operationalizations of conflict frames makes it hard to generalize results and compare studies on this subject.…”

Section: Understanding Conflict Frames In the Newsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…This importance of conflict also translates into news-framing research, and "conflict frames" are one of the most frequently used frames in political communication research today (Vliegenthart, Boomgaarden, and Boumans 2011). Conflict frames are particular in that they "emphasize conflict between individuals, groups, or institutions as a means of capturing audience interest" (Semetko and Valkenburg 2000, 95).…”

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Towards A Typology of Conflict Frames

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Conflict-framing literature has suffered from a lack of consistent conceptualization and consequently the aim of this paper is to unravel the dimensionality of conflict frames. We conducted a content analysis (N = 1536) to develop a typology of conflict news coverage. Using factor analysis, different aspects of conflict news are distinguished with level of substantiveness and interventionism as the main dimensions. Furthermore, the study focuses on the occurrence of these different types of conflict frames in the news and the role of contextual factors. For example, results indicate that articles with conflict frames contain more interventionism and less strategic framing online, more journalistic intervention in quality newspapers and less substantive news in election times when compared to routine periods. The study contributes to the literature by offering a more nuanced view of the presence of different types of conflict news in the media.

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Section: Understanding Conflict Frames In the Newsmentioning

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2017

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“…We follow previous research in identifying five news factors that are particularly important for coverage of political actors (see Helfer & Van Aelst, 2016;Hopmann et al, 2012;Tresch, 2009): political power, negativity, surprise, relevance, and continuity. First, we expect messages by powerful politicians to have higher chances to make the news than those sent by actors without a powerful position (Balmas, Rahat, Sheafer, & Shenhav, 2014;Entman, 2007;Galtung & Ruge, 1965;Gans, 1979;Helfer & Van Aelst, 2016;Tresch, 2009;Van Aelst, Maddens, Noppe, & Fiers, 2008;Vliegenthart, Boomgaarden, & Boumans, 2011). Second, the media is particularly attentive to stories that include negativity and conflict (e.g., Ansolabehere & Iyengar, 1995), so campaign messages that satisfy the media's demand for conflict and aggression should carry a higher news value (Gans, 1979).…”

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Partisan Bias in Message Selection: Media Gatekeeping of Party Press Releases

Haselmayer¹,

Wagner²,

Meyer³

2017

Political Communication

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Parties try to shape media coverage in ways that are favorable to them, but what determines whether media outlets pick up and report on party messages? Based on content analyses of 1,496 party press releases and 6,512 media reports from the 2013 Austrian parliamentary election campaign, we show that media coverage of individual party messages is influenced not just by news factors, but also by partisan bias. The media are therefore more likely to report on messages from parties their readers favor. Importantly, this effect is greater rather than weaker when these messages have high news value. These findings have important implications for understanding the media's role in elections and representative democracies in general.

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“…While popular newspapers would be characterized by a more personalized perspective, quality newspapers have been shown to feature controversy relatively prominently (Gonzalo et al, 2015;Vliegenthart et al, 2011).…”

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A general pattern in the construction of economic newsworthiness? Analyzing news factors in popular, quality, regional, and financial newspapers

Boukes

Vliegenthart

2017

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Journalists use news factors to construct newsworthy stories. This study investigates whether different types of news outlets emphasize different news factors. Using a large-scale manual content analysis (n = 6489), we examine the presence of seven news factors in economic news across four different outlets types (i.e. popular, quality, regional, and financial newspapers). Results suggest that popular and regional newspapers particularly rely on the news factors of personification, negativity, and geographical proximity. Quality newspapers, instead, employ a rather general pattern of news factors, whereas the financial newspaper consistently relies on less news factors in its reporting. Findings urge scholars to move toward a more detailed understanding of how newsworthiness is constructed in different types of news outlets.

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Changes in Political News Coverage: Personalization, Conflict and Negativity in British and Dutch Newspapers

Cited by 93 publications

References 23 publications

Towards A Typology of Conflict Frames

Towards A Typology of Conflict Frames

Partisan Bias in Message Selection: Media Gatekeeping of Party Press Releases

A general pattern in the construction of economic newsworthiness? Analyzing news factors in popular, quality, regional, and financial newspapers

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