Predicting news decisions. An empirical test of the two-component theory of news selection

Kepplinger, Hans Mathias; Ehmig, Simone C.

doi:10.1515/commun.2006.003

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“…Following Kepplinger and Ehmig's (2006) two-component theory, this study demonstrates that different newspaper types attach different value to particular news factors. Relative to quality and financial outlets, popular newspapers especially emphasize personification, negativity, and geographical proximity.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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

Boukes

Vliegenthart

2017

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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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confidence: 84%

“…Newsworthiness can be split into two components, which are news factors and news values (Kepplinger and Ehmig, 2006). News factors are the qualities of a news story (e.g.…”

Section: A Tabloidization Of News Factors? Comparing News Factors Acrmentioning

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

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Vliegenthart

2017

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“…One important news factor with a high news value is proximity (Galtung & Ruge, 1965;Östgaard, 1965;Schulz, 1976. Some authors even think that proximity is the central criteria for news selection (e.g., Allern, 2002). Empirical research on news values shows that the news factor proximity has an especially high news value for regional and tabloid media (Kepplinger & Ehmig, 2006).…”

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Intermedia agenda-setting in a multimedia news environment

2016

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This article analyzes intermedia agenda-setting processes during a national election campaign of 38 newspapers, online news sites, TV news programs, as well as a wire service, through semi-automatic content analysis and time series analysis. The theoretical assumption was that intermedia agenda-setting is determined by the production structures of certain media types, the opinion-leader role of specific media outlets, and issue-specific characteristics. The findings suggest that, despite previous evidence to the contrary, intermedia agenda-setting also occurs during election campaigns, with a short time lag of 1 day. Additionally, a medium's opinion-leader role depends strongly on issue-specific characteristics, such as obtrusiveness and proximity, mediating the intermedia agenda-setting process. And the traditional role of print media as intermedia agenda-setters is found to be challenged by online news sites. Intermedia agenda-setting in a multimedia news environment Abstract This paper analyzes intermedia agenda-setting processes during a national election campaign of 38 newspapers, online news sites, TV news programs, as well as a wire service, through semi-automatic content analysis and time series analysis. The theoretical assumption was that intermedia agenda-setting is determined by the production structures of certain media types, the opinion-leader role of specific media outlets, and issue-specific characteristics. The findings suggest that, despite previous evidence to the contrary, intermedia agenda-setting also occurs during election campaigns, with a short time lag of one day. Additionally, a medium's opinionleader role depends strongly on issue-specific characteristics, such as obtrusiveness and proximity, mediating the intermedia agenda-setting process. And the traditional role of print media as intermedia agenda-setters is found to be challenged by online news sites.

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“…Kiousis et al (2007) show that certain aspects of corporate press releases are not taken over in a similar way by all news outlets. Kepplinger and Ehmig (2006) demonstrate based on an experiment with journalism students that they ascribe different news values to news factors depending on whether they were asked to make news decisions for a national, regional, and a fictitious tabloid newspaper. Similarly, Cotter (2010) points out that news values are interpreted differently across news outlets.…”

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News about newspaper advertisers: To what extent can corporate advertising budgets predict editorial uptake and coverage of corporate press releases?

2016

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News value theory aims to predict a story's chance of being selected for publication based on news factors and ascribed news values. News values can also predict the coverage of corporate press releases. For news decisions, a newspaper's revenue model may force editors to consider whether the source of a press release is an advertising client, despite the 'separation of church and state'. In addition, for business journalism, corporate press releases have become an increasingly important news source. This study combines news values and advertiser weight to predict news coverage of press releases of banks in the news of partly and fully advertising-funded newspapers in Switzerland. Results show that advertiser importance can explain press release coverage concerning article length and tone in few cases, but has no universal news value. Public relations material is also not used as editorial subsidy for news. Larger companies are more successful in terms of press release uptake. However, their articles consist of a greater share of non-public relations material. Thus, our findings confirm editorial independence instead of copy-paste or obsequious journalism. News value theory aims to predict the chance of a story to be selected for publication based on news factors and ascribed news values. News values also predict the coverage of corporate press releases. For news decisions, a newspaper's revenue model may force editors to consider whether the source of a press release is an advertising client, despite the separation of "church and state". In addition, for business journalism, corporate press releases have become an increasingly important news source. This study combines news values and advertiser weight to predict news coverage of press releases of banks in the news of partly and fully advertising-funded newspapers in Switzerland. Results show that advertiser importance can explain press release coverage in few cases but has no universal news value. Thus, our findings confirm editorial independence instead of obsequious journalism.

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Predicting news decisions. An empirical test of the two-component theory of news selection

Cited by 89 publications

References 7 publications

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

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

Intermedia agenda-setting in a multimedia news environment

News about newspaper advertisers: To what extent can corporate advertising budgets predict editorial uptake and coverage of corporate press releases?

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