When telling of the Syrian civil war, foreign newspapers largely neglected to diagnose its causes, write Amélie Godefroidt, Anna Berbers, and Leen d’Haenens, all of University of Leuven. The authors investigated the frames present in American, British, French, and Russian newspaper articles, published before and after the sarin gas attack in August of 2013. Most … Continued

British newspapers used simplistic framing when reporting the 2011 terrorist attack against UN employees, writes Mercy Ette, of University of Huddersfield. Ette studied news stories about Nigeria published during the year before the attack, and immediately after. British newspapers by and large resorted to very few, “condensational symbols” in describing the attack, Ette writes. For … Continued