Competing Actors and the Construction of Political News: The Contest Over Waves in Israel

Wolfsfeld, Gadi; Sheafer, Tamir

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“…Based on Bennetts indexing theory, that regards official voices as more newsworthy and also as main constructors of news frames, there exist a considerable amount of research on which stories and voices receive most news coverage. According to this research, official political actors are the most prevalent voices in the news and political actors trigger most political coverage (Bennett et al, 2007;Entman, 2004;Lawrence, 2010;Shehata, 2010;Wolfsfeld and Sheafer, 2006). It is also argued by Dimitrova & Strömbäck (2012, p 609) that "the impact of sources would be especially important during election campaigns when political actors compete even more intensely than usual for control over media messages".…”

Section: Indicators Of Mediatized Political Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Presumably there are a number of additional factors that shape the process and the degree of mediatization in a particular media and political setting. Notably, a growing body of literature argues that specific news-reporting contexts can entail different news dynamics (Lawrence, 2010;Shehata, 2010;Wolfsfeld and Sheafer, 2006). Implicitly this literature suggests that different independence norms are a function of the conditions of the news context.…”

Section: Mediatization and Media Interventionismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These patterns in election news coverage indicate increased mediatization of political journalism where media logic rather than political logic governs news media coverage. However, political news research outside of the election campaign indicates that news media is less independent from political actors and tend to rely heavily on official sources and perspectives (Althaus, 2003;Bennett et al, 2007;Entman, 2004;Lawrence, 2010;Wolfsfeld and Sheafer, 2006).…”

Section: Political News Journalismmentioning

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Political news journalism: Mediatization across three news reporting contexts

Falasca

2014

European Journal of Communication

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Election coverage has a tendency to frame politics as a strategic game, to increase the role of journalists as interpreters of issues and events and to include a conflict frame, and thus indicating increased mediatization. However, political news research outside of the election indicates that news media are less independent from political actors. Drawing on literature on mediatization, media interventionism, political news journalism, news framing and source use, the purpose of this article is to empirically investigate whether election coverage is representative of other political journalism in terms of degree of mediatization. The study is based on a systematic comparison of three content analyses using the same coding schedule and procedure from coverage of the Financial Crisis 2008, the Election Campaign 2010 and routine political news coverage 2012 in Sweden. The main conclusion from this study is that mediatization of media coverage is substantially influenced by the specific context of the news.

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Political news journalism: Mediatization across three news reporting contexts

Falasca

2014

European Journal of Communication

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“…This does not mean that journalists entirely autonomously initiate new issues, but rather that they play a role in strengthening and structuring the initiatives taken by political actors (Reich, 2006;Wolfsfeld & Sheafer, 2006). Mostly this role is defined positively: issues that are high on the media agenda can obtain, in turn, a more prominent position on the political agenda.…”

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“…Due to its ability to focus attention, media influence is typically seen as relatively high in this phase of the policy process iii (Baumgartner & Jones, 1993;Esser & Pfetsch, 2004: 388). This does not mean that journalists entirely autonomously initiate new issues, but rather that they play a role in strengthening and structuring the initiatives taken by political actors (Reich, 2006;Wolfsfeld & Sheafer, 2006). Mostly this role is defined positively: issues that are high on the media agenda can obtain, in turn, a more prominent position on the political agenda.…”

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The Evolution of the Political Agenda Setting Concept in Foreign Political Studies

Александровна

2017

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Introduction: Political agenda-setting and mediatization as distinct worldsAgenda-setting is one of the most influential theories on the media's political influence (Graber, 2005). While often focusing on the media's impact on public opinion, another equally important facet of agenda-setting theory has the media's influence over the agendas of political actors and policy makers as its central object of investigation. Scholars use the term 'political agenda-setting' and in some instances 'agenda building' to refer to the transfer of media priorities to political priorities. Despite the growing popularity and importance of political agenda-setting research, it has seldom been conceptualized as part of or related to the mediatization of politics.For several reasons, political agenda-setting studies and mediatization studies have developed as almost completely distinct research schools (but see Van Noije, Oegema, & Kleinnijenhuis, 2008). Political agenda-setting studies share a strong empirical focus. They deal mainly with testing the effect of the media agenda on the political agenda in different contexts and circumstances. The basic question underlying most of the research reads: does more journalistic attention for an issue lead subsequently to more attention for that issue by politicians? With the help of sophisticated methods such as time series analyses researchers have been able to provide a nuanced and detailed answer to this question, identifying a set of contingent factors that determine the size and strength of the effect. While being empirically strong and analytically sophisticated, political agenda-setting work has, until recently, remained somewhat undertheorized. In particular, insights on why and how politicians adapt 2 to the agenda of the media are still in need of elaboration. Furthermore, agenda-setting focuses only on thematic priorities and it remains unclear how the impact of the media on issue agendas relates to other types of influence.The literature on mediatization, on the other hand, has been characterized by a broader theoretical input and goals (see chapter 1 and Y?), as well as by a broader scope covering media influence on several areas outside politics. The thesis on mediatization of politics provides an overarching view on the role of the media in the political system, and is in this volume defined as a long-term process through which the importance and influence of media in political processes and over political institutions and actors has increased (see chapter 1).While being strong on conceptual discussions and theoretical perspectives, the mediatization literature is lacking in empirical research.. Admittedly, some recent studies explore mediatization empirically. For instance, related to the 3 rd dimension of mediatization (see chapter x), Strömbäck and Nord (2006) find that journalists retain the most power over the content and framing of news while other studies document how mediatization of news content is stronger in the US compared to Europe (Strömbäck & Dimitrova, 2011;...

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Journalism, Political

Dalen¹

2016

The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication

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This entry surveys the main questions and research findings from the study of political journalism. Political journalism fulfills an important mediating role in democracy. The work of journalists on the political beat is characterized by pack journalism and close contacts with politicians and their spin doctors. Political journalists and politicians are mutually dependent actors whose relation can best be understood from a power‐balance perspective. One of the main topics in the study of political news is the question whether political journalism is balanced or biased. Over time the journalistic approach to politicians has changed from a respectful and sacerdotal approach to a more critical and pragmatic one. Political journalists are semi‐independent political actors who can influence the political process but whose work also reflects and is dependent on political settings. Changes in society and new technologies challenge the boundaries of political journalism and affect the relation between journalists and politicians.

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Competing Actors and the Construction of Political News: The Contest Over Waves in Israel

Cited by 126 publications

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Political news journalism: Mediatization across three news reporting contexts

Political news journalism: Mediatization across three news reporting contexts

The Evolution of the Political Agenda Setting Concept in Foreign Political Studies

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