Newspaper representations of populism in Spain and Italy

The study “What is populism anyway? Newspaper representations of populism in Spain and Italy between emptiness and political partisanship” by Carlo Berti, Arantxa Capdevila, and  Carlota M. Moragas-Fernández, all from Universitat Rovira i Virgili, looked at the journalistic construction of populism within the polarized pluralist media system in South Europe.  There are debates about what … Continued

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Published: 13 Feb 2024

Mafia journalism as a discursive network beat

The study “ The Discursive Constitution of Mafia Journalism as a Network Beat” by Sergio Splendore from University of Milan investigates the work of mafia journalists. The article utilizes a institutional discursive approach to study mafia journalism as a discursive newsbeat, even if it is not recognized as an official newsbeat. All the major Italian … Continued

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Published: 21 Dec 2021

Alternative media and media polarization/fragmentation

The study “What News Users Perceive as ‘Alternative Media’ Varies between Countries: How Media Fragmentation and Polarization Matter” by Desiree Steppat, Laia Castro and Frank Esser all from University of Zurich investigated what news sources are considered to be alternative media by news users in five countries: Denmark, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and United States.  In … Continued

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Published: 26 Oct 2021
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ARTICLE: Social media users have more varied news diets

Social media users engage with more news sources per week than non-users do, write Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, both of University of Oxford. The authors analysed survey data from Italy, Australia, United Kingdom and United States, gathered originally for the 2015 Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report. The respondents were divided into three groups … Continued

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Published: 28 Aug 2017
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ARTICLE: Public service news are more diverse than commercial

News published online by public service broadcasters provide more diversity than news published by other types of news organisations, Edda Humprecht and Frank Esser, both of University of Zurich, write. The authors analysed 1 660 political news articles, published by 48 news organisations in six countries: United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. … Continued

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Published: 27 Apr 2017
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ARTICLE: News on corruption differ by country and paper

Newspapers’ coverage of corruption is different in different countries – and in different papers, a study by Paolo Mancini, Marco Mazzoni, Rita Marchetti, all of University of Perugia, and Alessio Cornia from University of Oxford (names not in original order). The authors algorithmically analysed over 100 000 news articles from Italy, France, and the United … Continued

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Published: 18 Nov 2016

ARTICLE: Swine flu and journalistic cultures

Coverage of a specific issue may reveal more general aspects of the place of journalism in a society, claim Alessio Cornia and Paolo Mancini of Università di Perugia, and Marina Ghersetti and Tomas Odén of University of Gothenburg. Their recent paper, titled The Partisans, the Technocrats and the Watchdogs: Domestication in media coverage of the swine flu pandemic in 2009, was published … Continued

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Published: 5 Aug 2015