International Affairs Coverage On Network Television News: a Study of News Flow

Foreign and domestic news content of Chinese television

“…The resulting 20 newscasts contained 559 stories. The unit of analysis was the individual story as defined by Larson and Hardy (1977). Each unit was coded by length of time (in seconds), topic category, position in the newscast, and geographic origin.…”

The world of U.S. network television news: Eighteen years of international and foreign news coverage

“…He found that TV news is a domestic news medium and covered international (21 percent of total stories) and foreign affairs (16 percent of total stories) only when they reach the 'crisis' point. Larson and Hardy's (1977) content analysis of 1972-1975 network newscasts utilized the Television News Index and Abstracts, which beginning in 1972 has provided short abstracts of evening news broadcasts of the three major networks. The researchers listed the mentions of nations in the newscasts and found that international stories (those with mention of foreign nations) made up 35 percent of the stories at NBC, 37 percent at CBS and 39 percent at ABC.…”

Effects of Israeli press restrictions on coverage of the Palestinian uprising and on U.S. public opinion

“…The content analysis was carried out utilizing the newscast summaries contained in the Vanderbilt Television News Archive's News Index and Absti-acts.1 A number of news flow studies have used the abstracts, rather than the audio or video tapes, because of financial and time restraints. Larson and Hardy (1977) established the reliability of the abstracts in a comparison between items coded from the abstracts and those same items coded from audio tapes, obtaining a Pearson correlation coefficient of r < .99.…”