News Structure and People's Awareness of Political Events

Schulz, Winfried

doi:10.1177/001654928203000301

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“…These factors shape the image of foreign nations conveyed by the Mexican press. The findings correspond, with some qualifications, to the results of earlier studies conducted in Germany (Schulz, 1982;Staab, 1990;Ruhrmann et al, 2003).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Mexican journalists tend to especially emphasize news stories referring to controversial and conflicting opinions. This news factor shows robust relationships with all dependent variables, a finding which is in line with earlier research (Peterson, 1981;Schulz, 1982;Staab, 1990;Ruhrmann et al, 2003). The same applies to stories implying 'possible success/usefulness' and, with some qualifications, to stories referring to established topics in the news.…”

Section: The Selection Hypothesis (H1)supporting

confidence: 87%

“…Following up on this line of research, Staab (1990) refined the news factor operationalizations as proposed by Schulz (1976Schulz ( , 1982. He considered news factors to be the result of the decision to publish certain news stories rather than the determinants of journalistic news selection.…”

Section: Approaches To Studying News Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The theory of newsworthiness applied to Mexico's press. How the news factors influence foreign news coverage in a transitional country

Schwarz

2006

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Empirical studies which examine the theory of newsworthiness and the predictability of news coverage in transnational or developing countries still remain on the agenda of journalism research. Therefore, this study examines the influence of news factors on the foreign news coverage of three Mexican newspapers. Two main questions guide the research. First, is the theory of newsworthiness a valid approach for predicting news selection in a cultural context that is significantly different from western industrialized countries? Secondly, which are the relevant news factors that predict foreign news coverage in the Mexican press and thus shape the image of foreign nations? The results of a quantitative content analysis confirm the hypotheses of selection, additivity, and replication as they were originally postulated by Galtung and Ruge and thus prove the external validity of the theory of newsworthiness beyond western journalism.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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2006

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“…Standardized Lotus values of .67 indicate good reliability, while values above .60 are considered acceptable (Fretwurst, 2015). (Schulz, 1982) Whether the story has any impact or influence on society is measured by the presence of the 'economic consequences-frame' (std λ = .70): Does the article explicitly refer to the economic impact the story has, has had, or may have on individuals, companies, a group, a region, or a country? Geographical proximity…”

Section: Measurement: Reliability and Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Boukes

Vliegenthart

2017

Journalism

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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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“…While it could be explained in terms of the classic twelve factors that determine the news value of an event drawn by Galtung and Ruge (1965), with several subsequent modifications (Schulz 1982;Bell 1991: 156-160;Harcup and O'Neill 2001;McGregor 2002;Shoemaker and Cohen 2006: 7-21, 335-354), it is the constructivist approach of Bednarek and Caple (2012a: 39-83;2014) that enables a deeper cultural insight into the moral panic in question. Assuming, after these authors, that newsworthiness is not an inherent attribute of events but the effect of their journalistic production through language and image, one can treat news as a symbolic reflection of the culture in which it is constructed and circulated.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Racist and neo-Nazi panic in the Euro 2012 coverage by the British press: a discursive failure in interculturalism

Wawrzyczek¹

2017

Brno Studies in English

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The article demonstrates how the discursive strategies of sport reporting by the media may collide with the vision of sport as a means of promoting intercultural understanding, a generally anticipated cultural effect of mega sport events. This is done by a critical discourse reading of 35 news articles that appeared across the British national press in May and June 2012, directly before the opening of the 14 th UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2012) jointly hosted by Poland and Ukraine. Influenced by a BBC television documentary and linked by the central topic of the two countries as strongholds of racism, xenophobia and vicious hooliganism, these articles constitute an instance of a moral panic. A discussion of the panic as a mode of discourse leads to the conclusion that the priorities and practices of British newspaper journalism acted against the culturally integrating potential of Euro 2012.

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News Structure and People's Awareness of Political Events

Cited by 92 publications

References 12 publications

The theory of newsworthiness applied to Mexico's press. How the news factors influence foreign news coverage in a transitional country

The theory of newsworthiness applied to Mexico's press. How the news factors influence foreign news coverage in a transitional country

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

Racist and neo-Nazi panic in the Euro 2012 coverage by the British press: a discursive failure in interculturalism

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