International Television News

Kolmer, Christian; Semetko, Holli A.

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2010.503020

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“…However, more recent research also suggests that we should not use the US case as a benchmark for foreign news reporting in other countries. Indeed, there might be large variations not only across different countries, as Kolmer and Semetko (2010) suggest, but also according to how international news coverage is measured (Allen and Hamilton 2010). The absolute item frequency is not necessarily the same as the proportion of the newscast, thus we will first take a closer look at the level of foreign news applying different types of measures.…”

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“…One of the reasons behind the large differences may be related to market developments and the standing of the national public service broadcasting system (Kolmer and Semetko 2010). Generally we should expect public service broadcasters to provide more international news than their private competitors.…”

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“…According to Kolmer and Semetko (2010), one cannot make generalizations easily from the US case, because the structure of the television system matters. They show how foreign news reporting is much higher in Germany than the United States, for instance; and argue that German public broadcasting, for a long time supported by state subsidies, provides the news audience with a relatively high level of foreign news (approximately 45 percent).…”

Section: Supply Of International Television Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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International Tv News, Foreign Affairs Interest and Public Knowledge

Aalberg¹,

Papathanassopoulos²,

Soroka³

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Journalism Studies

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This article investigates the volume of foreign news provided by public service and commercial TV channels in countries with different media systems, and how this corresponds to the public's interest in and knowledge of foreign affairs. We use content analyses of television newscasts and public opinion surveys in 11 countries across five continents to provide new insight into the supply and demand for international television news. We find that (1) more market-oriented media systems and broadcasters are less devoted to international news, and (2) the international news offered by these commercial broadcasters more often focuses on soft rather than hard news. Furthermore, our results suggest that the foreign news offered by the main TV channels is quite limited in scope, and mainly driven by a combination of national interest and geographic proximity. In sum, our study demonstrates some limitations of foreign news coverage, but results also point to its importance: there is a positive relationship between the amount of hard international news coverage and citizens' level of foreign affairs knowledge.

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Aalberg¹,

Papathanassopoulos²,

Soroka³

et al. 2013

Journalism Studies

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“…Range refers to changes in content, for example, a shift from political to human interest topics (Djupsund & Carlson, ; Schönbach, ) or a decline of foreign news relative to domestic news (Kolmer & Semetko, ; McLachlan & Golding, ). Changes in form of presentation comprise tendencies toward shorter stories, more pictures (Djupsund & Carlson, ), and simpler vocabulary and syntax (Schönbach, ).…”

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The Softening of Journalistic Political Communication: A Comprehensive Framework Model of Sensationalism, Soft News, Infotainment, and Tabloidization

2016

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Despite the scholarly popularity of important developments of political communication, concepts like soft news or infotainment lack conceptual clarity. This article tackles that problem and introduces a multilevel framework model of softening of journalistic political communication, which shows that the 4 most prominent concepts—(a) sensationalism, (b) hard and soft news (HSN), (c) infotainment, and (d) tabloidization, and, additionally, (e) eroding of boundaries of journalism—can be distinguished in a hierarchical model. By softening, we understand a metaconcept representing developments in political journalism that are observed on different levels of investigation, from journalism as a system (macrolevel) down to single media items (microlevel).

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“…There are some systematic reasons why news from one country is covered in another. These include the extent to which the two nations interact economically, cultural similarities, and geographic proximity (Kolmer & Semetko, ; Wu, ). In addition, larger countries’ news seems to be more likely to be covered elsewhere and the United States is particularly well discussed everywhere (Lin, Lo, & Wang, ; Wu, ), presumably because of its cultural industry and its worldwide political influence.…”

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Trending Twitter topics in English: An international comparison

Wilkinson

Thelwall

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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The worldwide span of the microblogging service Twitter gives an opportunity to make international comparisons of trending topics of interest, such as news stories. Previous international comparisons of news interests have tended to use surveys and may bypass topics not well covered in the mainstream media. This article uses 9 months of English tweets from the UK, USA, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Based upon the top 50 trending keywords in each country from the 0.5 billion tweets collected, festivals or religious events are the most common, followed by media events, politics, human interest and sport. US trending topics have the most interest in the other countries and Indian trending topics the least. Conversely, India is the most interested in other countries' trending topics and the US the least. This gives evidence of an international hierarchy of perceived importance or relevance with some issues, such as the international interest in US Thanksgiving celebrations, apparently not being directly driven by the media. This hierarchy echoes, and may be caused by, similar news coverage trends. Whilst the current imbalanced international news coverage does not seem to be out of step with public news interests, the political implication is that the Twitter-using public reflects, and hence seems to implicitly accept, international imbalances in news media agenda setting rather than combatting them. This is a problem for those believing that these imbalances make the media too powerful.

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International Television News

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

International Tv News, Foreign Affairs Interest and Public Knowledge

International Tv News, Foreign Affairs Interest and Public Knowledge

The Softening of Journalistic Political Communication: A Comprehensive Framework Model of Sensationalism, Soft News, Infotainment, and Tabloidization

Trending Twitter topics in English: An international comparison

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