representation – Journalism research news

Article: The impact of using person-centered language to reference stigmatized groups in news coverage

The study “The impact of using person-centered language to reference stigmatized groups in news coverage” by Caroline Murray, Anita Varma and Natalie Jomini Stroud from University of Texas at Austin studied whether using person-centered language (such as “person with substance abuse disorder) rather than stigmatizing terms (such as “drug abuser”) improved trust towards journalism. Past … Continued

Tags: disability, homelessness, journalistic norms, journalistic profession, person-centered language, representation, respect, substance abuse, trust
Published: 23 Feb 2024

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New modern identity for Turkish women in Turkish press 1934-1937

The new article by Esra Ercan Bilgiç of Istanbul Bilgi University used critical discourse analysis to study the framing of women in newspapers during a period, 1934-1937, in the Kemalist era, which started in 1923. In 1934 the Turkish press had organized itself along Republican, Kemalist principles, after the new Press Law in 1931. Three … Continued

Tags: framing, media history, representation, Turkey
Published: 30 Nov 2020

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Fewer but gendered and more positive stories about women as heads of government

Few journalism research papers up to this day have focused on women as heads of government. The new paper by Melanee Thomas of University of Calgary, Allison Harell and Tania Gosselin of UQAM, Montreal, and Sanne A.M. Rijkhoff of Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (authors not in original order), studied how gender roles are represented … Continued

Tags: Canada, gender, newspapers, online journalism, political journalism, representation
Published: 5 Nov 2020

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Diversity examined in 18 British, Swedish, and German newsrooms

A new study in Journalism Practice by Julia Lück, Tanjev Schultz, Sabine Kieslich, of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and Felix Simon and Alexandra Borchardt of the University of Oxford, explores the issue of internal diversity in newsrooms as a reflection of the society. The authors conducted semi-standardized interviews of editors-in-chief and managing editors … Continued

Tags: Germany, journalistic norms, journalistic profession, representation, Sweden, United Kingdom
Published: 30 Sep 2020

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ARTICLE: Empowering women in Niger with radio journalism

Radio can be used for reaching marginalised and isolated communities in many regions in the Global South. It is important to see whether information broadcasted is accurate, independent and aligned with listeners’ needs or wishes, Emma Heywood of the University of Sheffield, the author of a new study, writes. In Niger, gender inequality is widespread … Continued

Tags: audience, local journalism, Niger, political journalism, radio, representation
Published: 2 Apr 2020

In covering Ebola, the West saw Africa as inept and disease-ridden

Did Western and African media cover the 2014 Ebola outbreak differently? Adaobi Duru, of University of Louisiana, investigated the matter by analysing Ebola-related articles from five newspapers. The papers came from the United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia – one from each. The US and UK papers emphasized how wretched of a … Continued

Tags: crisis journalism, foreign reporting, representation
Published: 3 Mar 2020

Journalists are bad at communicating scientific consensus

Most news articles do not clearly state expert consensus, even when one exists. The finding is reported by Eric Merkley, of University of Toronto. Merkley analysed over 280 000 news articles on 10 different topics – all ones on which most experts agree (e.g. vaccinating children). The author analysed over 3 000 articles by hand … Continued

Tags: representation, science journalism, sources, United States
Published: 24 Feb 2020

ARTICLE: Scandinavian mainstream media reject alternative right-wing media’s agenda

Swedish, Danish and Norwegian newspapers rarely -if ever- pick up on the topics written about by alternative right-wing media. Silje Nygaard, of University of Bergen, analysed 878 mainstream news articles that made reference to alternative media. Nygaard’s sample comprised six mainstream newspapers’ websites, two from each country. The author collected all articles from 2012 – … Continued

Tags: agenda setting, alternative journalism, representation
Published: 17 Feb 2020

ARTICLE: Country images are shaped by news sources, not by content

Reading negative or positive news of a particular country alone does not affect the reader’s image of that country. The surprising result was discovered by Chen Yang, of Robert Morris University, and Gi Woong Yun, of University of Nevada. The authors conducted an online experiment with 172 American university students. The participants were directed to … Continued

Tags: audience, foreign reporting, online journalism, representation
Published: 11 Feb 2020

ARTICLE: Migration news underrepresent women

Migrant women are much less visible than migrant men in German news on migration. Fabienne Lind, of University of Vienna, and Christine E. Meltzer, of University of Mainz, discovered the discrepancy through an automated content analysis of nearly 350 000 German news articles. The authors searched for migration related, German news articles from the LexisNexis … Continued

Tags: Germany, representation
Published: 3 Feb 2020