No news from the East? Predicting patterns of coverage of Eastern Europe in selected German newspapers

Weber, Patrick

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“…Those studies claim that the economic, social, political and geographic characteristics of a nation determine the amount of coverage one country receives in the media discourses of another. Additionally, historical relations, the index of economic development, the size of a country, cultural or geographic proximity, the language factor, elite status, or the availability of news sources are also crucial factors that influence newsworthiness (see especially Galtung & Ruge, 1965;Ostgaard, 1965;1984;Staab, 1990;Rosengren, 1974;Stevenson & Cole, 1984;Chang & Lee, 1992;Wu, 2000;Weber, 2010;Wilke et al, 2012). With regard to the other frames of perception that have been identified as crucial dimensions in the Austrian news coverage of Poland, here, some of those factors apply, such as the close economic ties and networks of Austria in the CEE region, that economic relations that may explain enhanced news attention paid towards Poland with regard to economic topics.…”

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Austrian news coverage of Poland during the Polish EU presidency in 2011

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2013

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Austrian news coverage of Poland during the Polish EU presidency in 2011

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2013

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“…Those studies claim that the economic, social, political and geographic characteristics of a nation determine the amount of coverage one country receives in the media discourses of another. Additionally, historical relations, the index of economic development, the size of a country, cultural or geographic proximity, the language factor, elite status, or the availability of news sources are also crucial factors that influence newsworthiness (see especially Galtung, Ruge, 1965;Ostgaard, 1965;Staab, 1990;Rosengren, 1974;Stevenson & Cole, 1984;Chang, Lee, 1992;Shoemaker, Cohen, 2006;Wu, 2000;Weber, 2010;Wilke et al, 2012). With regard to the other frames of perception that have been identified as crucial dimensions in the German news coverage on Poland, here, some of those factors apply, e.g., regionalism and geographic proximity.…”

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The German News Coverage of Poland during the Polish EU Presidency Term in 2011

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2013

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Using the Holsti's coefficient of reliability (calculated with PRAM); coefficients for the coded variables ranked between .856 and .751, with the exception of XII.Topic 1-3 where the coefficient was below 0.4 for all three variables.3 Using the Holsti's coefficient of reliability (calculated with PRAM); coefficients for the coded variables ranked between .846 and .732, again with the exception of XII.Topic 1-3 where the coefficient was below 0.4 for all three variables. Thus we excluded these variables from a comparative analysis.

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“…Many studies, especially in international news, have tried to operationalize and test the concept of news values (e.g., Adams, ; Chang, Shoemaker, & Brendlinger, ; Weber, ). In fact there are several lists of criteria and many are rather extensive, which can be problematic, especially for empirical testing (Harcup & O'Neill, ; O'Neill & Harcup, ).…”

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Are All Policy Decisions Equal? Explaining the Variation in Media Coverage of the UK Budget

Langer¹,

Sagarzazu²

2015

Policy Studies Journal

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A country's Budget is one of the most important public policy instruments, as it establishes the government's policy priorities and has the potential to determine winners and losers. The Budget, however, is a mixture of different components and these get varying degrees of attention in the media. Drawing on sociology of news research, this paper seeks to explain this heterogeneous coverage of a Budget's policy decisions. To do so, it uses a unique dataset of over 5,000 articles of press coverage of six UK Budgets (2008Budgets ( -2012. These articles are coded for the presence/absence of each of the Budget's policy decision, via automated content analysis. Based on a multivariate negative binomial model we find that the salience of a policy decision in the coverage is determined by its cost; whether it is negative (i.e. tax hikes and spending cuts) or positive; the income group that is most affected by it; and the level of attention given to it by the government.1 The order of the authors' names is in alphabetical order. Both authors have contributed equally to all work. The authors would like to thank Yigal Harkavy for his invaluable research assistance. We are also grateful toSarah Birch, Heike Klüver, Peter Van Aelst, Shaun Bevan, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions which helped improve the manuscript. IntroductionThe Budget presentation and approval process is a key element of the policy process. However, given the high impact that budgets can have for a country and its politics, it is surprising that little has been devoted to the media coverage. This is the more important because, as research has consistently shown, the politics of attention are crucial (Baumgartner and Jones 2005), and the media-for whom, as for other actors, attention is scarce-often plays a key role in these dynamics. Moreover, previous research has found that the media is highly selective about which aspects of the policy process it reports (Van Aelst et al. n/d).In the case of the Budget, the issues that it covers are evidently already on the policy agenda. Increases and decreases in budgetary spending, for instance, are tied to issue preferences of legislators (Mortensen 2009), even if these are constrained (Epp, Lovett and Baumgartner 2014). Which of these policy initiatives, however, does the public get to know about? We argue that the issues that remain on the agenda, and those that disappear into the background, will partly depend on the degree of coverage. Moreover, this will be tied to how attractive different policy decisions are for the media. As such, it is important to understand: which items of the Budget do the media pay attention to? And how can this be explained?In order to answer these questions, this paper draws on research on news values as well as commercial imperatives and media-source relations to explore the 'selection bias' of the media reporting of the Budget in the UK. Specifically, the paper will identify the key determinants that explain the difference in the amount ...

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No news from the East? Predicting patterns of coverage of Eastern Europe in selected German newspapers

Cited by 11 publications

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Austrian news coverage of Poland during the Polish EU presidency in 2011

Austrian news coverage of Poland during the Polish EU presidency in 2011

The German News Coverage of Poland during the Polish EU Presidency Term in 2011

Are All Policy Decisions Equal? Explaining the Variation in Media Coverage of the UK Budget

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