Comparing Political Journalism / Edition 1

by Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser, David Nicolas Hopmann

Overview

Comparing Political Journalism is a systematic, in-depth study of the factors that shape and influence political news coverage today.

Using techniques drawn from the growing field of comparative political communication, an international group of contributors analyse political news content drawn from newspapers, television news, and news websites from 16 countries, to assess what kinds of media systems are most conducive to producing quality journalism.

Underpinned by key conceptual themes, such as the role that the media are expected to play in democracies and quality of coverage, this analysis highlights the fragile balance of news performance in relation to economic forces.

A multitude of causal factors are explored to explain key features of contemporary political news coverage, such as Strategy and Game Framing, Negativity, Political Balance, Personalization, Hard and Soft News

Comparing Political Journalism offers an unparalleled scope in assessing the implications for the ongoing transformation of Western media systems, and addresses core concepts of central importance to students and scholars of political communication world-wide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138655850
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2016
Series:	Communication and Society
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Claes de Vreese is Professor and Chair of Political Communication at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is the founding Director of the Center for Politics and Communication (www.polcomm.org). His most recent book is Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective (2014, with Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen and Nael Jebril).

Frank Esser is Professor and Chair of International & Comparative Media Research at the University of Zurich, Swizterland. He co-directs the National Research Center on the Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century (NCCR Democracy). His most recent book is Mediatization of Politics (2014, with Jesper Strömbäck).

David Nicolas Hopmann is Professor with special responsibilities at the Centre for Journalism and the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.

Table of Contents

1. Our Goal: Understanding News Performance 2. How We Did It: Approach and Methods 3. The Explanatory Logic: Factors That Shape Political News 4. Strategy and Game Framing 5. Interpretive Journalism 6. Negativity 7. Political Balance 8. Personalization 9. Hard and Soft News 10. Cross-Conceptual Architecture of News 11. Conclusion: Assessing News Performance