The news on tobacco control: time to bring the background into the foreground

Chapman, Simon

doi:10.1136/tc.8.3.237

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“…Variation in exposure across the years may be due to variability in the newsworthiness of tobacco control issues, media advocacy resources and success, and/or preparedness of editors and journalists to entertain news stories on tobacco issues. Our data suggest that simple cross-sectional studies of news coverage may underestimate the extent to which temporal variation might occur and that ongoing monitoring is important to assess exposure to what has previously been described as a 'background influence' on tobacco-related attitudes and behavior (Chapman 1999). News article monitoring data can help tobacco control advocates to evaluate their performance against the effort they expend in seeking to shape news coverage on tobacco issues.…”

Section: Changes In News Coverage Over Timementioning

confidence: 91%

Still a burning issue: trends in the volume, content and population reach of newspaper coverage about tobacco issues

Wakefield

Brennan

Durkin

et al. 2011

Critical Public Health

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Section: Changes In News Coverage Over Timementioning

confidence: 91%

Still a burning issue: trends in the volume, content and population reach of newspaper coverage about tobacco issues

Wakefield

Brennan

Durkin

et al. 2011

Critical Public Health

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“…To the extent that news coverage entails careful selection and framing of problems, so it may influence what issues the public considers to be important, as well as what solutions are deemed possible (12)(13)(14)(15). Although the news media are valued as an important and effective mechanism for communicating health messages (16)(17)(18)(19), a systematic examination of their effect on policy outcomes is often overlooked.…”

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The Good News About Smoking: How do US Newspapers Cover Tobacco Issues?

Smith¹,

Wakefield²,

Edsall

2006

J Public Health Pol

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Media advocacy, or advocacy seeking media attention, can shape the policy environment, but the relationship between the nature of news media coverage of public health topics and policy outcomes has received insufficient research attention. We present the first large-scale study of news coverage of tobacco to focus on the potential impact for policy outcomes. Through our analysis of 9859 tobacco-focused news articles from ioo leading US daily newspapers between 2001 and 2003 we examined whether tobacco issues are newsworthy, and if so, whether coverage is favorable to policy progress. We found strong evidence for news-worthiness, and a tendency for coverage to highlight policy approaches to tackling tobacco. Coverage emphasized successes rather than setbacks, and newspaper editors lent support to tobacco control positions. There were, however, areas that did not garner sufficient attention to sustain a meaningful policy message. Our analysis of coverage of controversial issues also revealed areas where tobacco control efforts seem to pushing against ideological boundaries.

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“…Public exposure to news stories on the radio, television, Internet, and print media is relatively inexpensive and can bring wide exposure (Chapman, 1999;Durrant, Wakefield, McLeod, Clegg Smith, & Chapman, 2003;Reid, Killoran, McNeill, & Chambers, 1992). One way to garner this media attention is through the issue of news releases.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…News coverage in print, radio, and television affects what topics the public thinks about and how they think about those topics (Chapman, 1999;Mazazmen, Charlesworth, & Glantz, 2001;Menashe & Siegel, 1998;Schooler, Sundar, & Flora, 1996;Wakefield, Flay, Nichter, & Giovino, 2003). This is often described as the media's agenda-setting function: What gets covered by the media is what gets on the public's agenda.…”

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Communications strategies to broaden the reach of tobacco use research: Examples from the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers

Kobus

Mermelstein

Ponkshe

2007

CNTR

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One of the initial goals of the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) initiative was to broaden the traditional model of how research results are communicated, going beyond scholarly journals, as a way to accelerate the discovery-to-dissemination process. A strategy in meeting this goal was the establishment of a communications program at the seven initially funded TTURCs. This paper reports the results of the communications efforts from the TTURC initiative. Specific communications activities are described, highlighting efforts to reach broad audiences and increase the impact of the research. We present lessons learned from this effort to enhance knowledge translation through the development of communications infrastructure and dissemination activities, focusing especially on the guidance they offer for the development of future research-communications partnerships.

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The news on tobacco control: time to bring the background into the foreground

Cited by 40 publications

References 22 publications

Still a burning issue: trends in the volume, content and population reach of newspaper coverage about tobacco issues

Still a burning issue: trends in the volume, content and population reach of newspaper coverage about tobacco issues

The Good News About Smoking: How do US Newspapers Cover Tobacco Issues?

Communications strategies to broaden the reach of tobacco use research: Examples from the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers

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