“…The terms associated with this development include infotainment, tabloidization, and personalization (Bentele and Fähnrich, 2010). The trend towards this person-focused mediation of journalistic content has intensified since the 1990s and with the establishment of cable news (Eisenegger and Schranz, 2013; Imhof, 2010). In both television and print, the personalization phenomenon has become increasingly popular because of the emergence of new formats such as interviews, portraits, storytelling, and celebrity reports (Bentele and Fähnrich, 2010).…”