“…Researchers identified the varying societal roles of journalists beginning in the 1960s (Cohen, 1963). Investigation into journalistic roles has mostly been accomplished through quantitative surveys (e.g., Cassidy, 2005; Fjaestad & Holmöv, 1976; Johnson & Kelly, 2003; Nah & Chung, 2011), followed by interviews (e.g., Agarwal & Barthel, 2015; Köcher, 1986) and the q-method (e.g., Abel et al, 1998; Giannoulis, Botezagias, & Skanavis, 2010), although the manifestation of those roles in news content has been investigated to a much lesser degree. This empirical gap has led roles scholars to stress the need for systematic content analyses verifying that journalistic role conceptions correlate with corresponding communication behaviors (Wilnat, Weaver, & Choi, 2013).…”