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OBJECTIVE NEWS REPORTING: General Premises
In: Communication research, Volume 10, Issue 3, p. 403-424
ISSN: 1552-3810
First, the concept of objectivity in news reporting is presented in a scheme, assumed to contain its main components. The author's practical experiences from eight major objectivity studies, in which the components are operationalized and applied in content analyses, are reported and discussed. Finally, it is suggested that the tested criteria of objectivity should be complemented by an interest theory, in order to deal with the fundamental problem of the significance of different news items.
Foreign News: News Values and Ideologies
In: European journal of communication, Volume 9, Issue 1, p. 71-89
ISSN: 1460-3705
This is an intermediate report from a study of foreign news in Swedish media as well as media in a number of other countries. We intend to discuss and test parts of a theoretical model designed to explain the selection of news. For this purpose we have used studies of news content covering the last seven decades. This material includes more than 50,000 news stories in newspapers, on radio and on television that have been manually categorized and coded. In addition, approximately 300,000 news items from different databases have been used (see Appendix).
CHERNOBYL AND THE NUCLEAR POWER ISSUE IN SWEDEN: Experts, Media, and Public Opinion
In: International journal of public opinion research, Volume 3, Issue 2, p. 115-131
ISSN: 1471-6909
Chernobyl and the nuclear power issue in Sweden: experts, media, and public opinion
In: International journal of public opinion research, Volume 3, p. 115-131
ISSN: 0954-2892
The influence of expert opinion and mass media coverage on public attitudes, 1986-90.
News Ideologies as Moulders of Domestic News
In: European journal of communication, Volume 1, Issue 2, p. 133-149
ISSN: 1460-3705
In a study of Swedish news media, 1912-84, a distinction is made between news values, regarded as more or less permanent, and changing news ideologies, conceived as an outflow of other ideologies. In statements concerning the broadcasting media three periods of different news ideologies are identified. They all seem to have had a strong impact both on the selection of news and on the selection of perspectives applied in the news.
A RESEARCH TRADITION
In: Communication research, Volume 10, Issue 3, p. 283-286
ISSN: 1552-3810