This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic based on a... more This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic based on a content analysis of newspaper, television, radio, and online news in 37 countries. We test a set of hypotheses derived from two perspectives on the role of journalism in health crises. Mediatization theories assume that news media tend to sensationalize or to politicize health crises. A contrasting perspective holds that journalists shift toward more deferential and cooperative stances toward health and political authorities in a health crisis, attempting to mobilize the public to act according to the best science. Hypotheses derived from these perspectives are tested using the standard measures of journalistic roles developed by the Journalistic Role Performance Project. Results show that the deference/ cooperation/consensus perspective is better supported, with media moving away from the Watchdog and Infotainment, and toward performance of the Service and Civic roles. We also explore differences in the pattern by country.
francaisL'article analyse la croissante tension entre les nouvelles tendances commerciales et... more francaisL'article analyse la croissante tension entre les nouvelles tendances commerciales et le "professionnalisme" classique dans l'information d'actualite aux Etats Unis. L'auteur fait une critique simultanee aux visions "post-modernes" que considerent la fusion entre l'information subjective et la diversion comme une forme de syntoniser les nouvelles avec la mentalite populaire, et aussi la perspective rigide du "journalisme objectif" des "nouvelles serieuses" que sortent principalement des centres officiels. La reflexion ici offerte evalue les avantages et desavantages des deux tendances et decrit les proces actuels de fusion et de relative complementarite entre eux comme consequence des profonds changements a la structure corporative des media et aux nouveaux systemes de connexion entre les politiques et les electeurs. Dans l'opinion de Hallin la tradition du professionnalisme ne disparaitra completement, mais au ...
This article considers the debates about press freedom raised by an important case of populist me... more This article considers the debates about press freedom raised by an important case of populist media reform in Latin America, drawing on interviews with Ecuadorian journalists, policy makers, and commentators involved in the policy process. Whereas these cases are commonly understood, following a “libertarian” conception of press freedom, as threats to an independent press, interviewees saw a more complex picture. The majority agreed that press freedom was threatened under former president Rafael Correa’s regime in Ecuador; at the same time, most of respondents considered media regulation necessary given a history of “media capture,” and believed that journalistic professionalism had improved in Correa’s period. These results suggest that press freedom is a multidimensional reality in which the state plays a key role, proposing a further discussion about media regulation and populism in contemporary societies.
Health and medicine are major topics of news coverage, but research on health and medical reporti... more Health and medicine are major topics of news coverage, but research on health and medical reporting has remained mainly confined to specialist subfields, with less impact on broader academic fields, including journalism studies, than would seem warranted by its importance. This article argues that assumptions implicit in much of this literature have limited the development of a wider tradition of research on health journalism. We point particularly to what we call the linear-reflectionist perspective, which sees health journalism as an often-flawed mechanism for transmitting pre-existing medical knowledge to the mass public. We propose an alternative framework that seeks to illuminate the complexity and importance of this field of study.
... journalists' relation to official sources, were much less dramatic. A model for explaini... more ... journalists' relation to official sources, were much less dramatic. A model for explaining changes in the level of critical coverage is offered, emphasizing media response to the degree of consensus or dissensus among political elites. ...
This article examines historical trends in the reporting of health, illness and medicine in UK an... more This article examines historical trends in the reporting of health, illness and medicine in UK and Italian newspapers from 1984 to 2017. It focuses on the increasing "biomedicalization" of health reporting and the framing of health and medicine as a matter of technoscientific interventions. Methodologically, we relied on two large datasets consisting of all the health-and medicine-related articles published in the online archives of The Guardian (UK) and la Repubblica (Italy). These articles underwent a quantitative analysis, based on topic modelling techniques, to identify and analyse relevant topics in the datasets. Moreover, we developed some synthetic indices to support the analysis of how medical and health news are "biomedicalized" in media coverage. Theoretically, we emphasise that media represent a constitutive environment in shaping biomedicalization processes. Our analyses show that across the period under scrutiny, biomedicalization is a relevant, even if sometimes ambivalent, frame in the media sphere, placing growing centrality on three dimensions: i) health and well-being as a matter of individual commitment to self-monitoring and self-surveillance; ii) biomedicine as a large technoscientific enterprise emerging from the entanglement between research fields and their technological embodiments; iii) the multiverse reforms of welfare systems in facing the trade-off between universal health coverage and the need to render the national healthcare system more sustainable and compatible with non-expansionary monetary policies and austerity approaches in managing state government budgets.
Abstract For the mass public as well as for the mass media, war is less a political policy than a... more Abstract For the mass public as well as for the mass media, war is less a political policy than a form of popular culture, an arena of individual and national self‐expression that generates far more emotional involvement than ordinary political events. This essay examines television coverage of the Gulf War, both network and local, from this perspective. It discusses two sides of war, war as an exercise of “purposive‐rational action"—a celebration of technical prowess and professionalism—and war as a celebration of community. The Durkheimian concepts of ritual and civil religion are employed in the discussion of the journalist's role as a celebrant of community unity during wartime. Results of a content analysis of network and local television coverage of the Gulf War, focusing primarily on the visual images employed, are included.
You do not currently have access to this article. Download all figures Based on samp les of netwo... more You do not currently have access to this article. Download all figures Based on samp les of network evening news broadcasts from each p residential election from 1968 through 1988, this article shows that the average sound bite has declined from 43 to 9 seconds. This change is interp reted as p art of a general shift in the style of television news toward a more mediated, journalist-centered form of journalism. Three factors help
... They are committed more strongly to the norms of the profession than to political ideas. ... ... more ... They are committed more strongly to the norms of the profession than to political ideas. ... Still, we shouldn't allow the critique of objectivity, which has occupied so much of the ... professionals of All the President's Men. This was the high modernism of American journalism,' an era ...
... and the 2007 election of his wife, Cristina Kirchner; Brazil, with the 2002 election of Luiz ... more ... and the 2007 election of his wife, Cristina Kirchner; Brazil, with the 2002 election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his ... 2. The articles by Carlos de la Torre, Catherine Conaghan, Sallie Hughes,Manuel alejandro guerrero, and Rousiley Maia were originally presented at the ...
... news tabloid A Current Affair, for example, ended with the tease "Coming up sex, mu... more ... news tabloid A Current Affair, for example, ended with the tease "Coming up sex, murder and videotape, that's next!" It may be that this is indeed the future of television news. It was the local stations that first discovered, late in the 1960s, that news could make money lots of ...
... Brian McNair Pluralism, Politics and the Marketplace The Regulation of German Broadcasting Vi... more ... Brian McNair Pluralism, Politics and the Marketplace The Regulation of German Broadcasting Vincent Porter and Suzanne Hasselbach Potboilers ... Communication Studies Communication, History and Theory in America Hanno Hardt Media Moguls Jeremy Tunstall and Michael ...
Resumen: Este artículo analiza el rol ambivalente de la información de sucesos en la esfera públi... more Resumen: Este artículo analiza el rol ambivalente de la información de sucesos en la esfera pública mexicana, señalando los sesgos de la representación mediática del crimen, la fusión que se produce entre géneros informativos y de entretenimiento, y las diferencias entre programas dirigidos a sectores sociales segmentados según su capacidad adquisitiva. Estas transformaciones son explicadas en relación a dos cambios estructurales de la sociedad mexicana: la democratización y la liberalización económica. Palabras Clave: Medios de comunicación, televisión, información sensacionalista, prensa amarilla, democratización, liberalización económica, México.
Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour CNRS Éditions. Distribution électronique Cairn.info pou... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour CNRS Éditions. Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour CNRS Éditions. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit. Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse https://www.cairn.info/revue-hermes-la-revue-1994-1-page-185.htm Découvrir le sommaire de ce numéro, suivre la revue par email, s'abonner... Flashez ce QR Code pour accéder à la page de ce numéro sur Cairn.info.
This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic based on a... more This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic based on a content analysis of newspaper, television, radio, and online news in 37 countries. We test a set of hypotheses derived from two perspectives on the role of journalism in health crises. Mediatization theories assume that news media tend to sensationalize or to politicize health crises. A contrasting perspective holds that journalists shift toward more deferential and cooperative stances toward health and political authorities in a health crisis, attempting to mobilize the public to act according to the best science. Hypotheses derived from these perspectives are tested using the standard measures of journalistic roles developed by the Journalistic Role Performance Project. Results show that the deference/ cooperation/consensus perspective is better supported, with media moving away from the Watchdog and Infotainment, and toward performance of the Service and Civic roles. We also explore differences in the pattern by country.
francaisL'article analyse la croissante tension entre les nouvelles tendances commerciales et... more francaisL'article analyse la croissante tension entre les nouvelles tendances commerciales et le "professionnalisme" classique dans l'information d'actualite aux Etats Unis. L'auteur fait une critique simultanee aux visions "post-modernes" que considerent la fusion entre l'information subjective et la diversion comme une forme de syntoniser les nouvelles avec la mentalite populaire, et aussi la perspective rigide du "journalisme objectif" des "nouvelles serieuses" que sortent principalement des centres officiels. La reflexion ici offerte evalue les avantages et desavantages des deux tendances et decrit les proces actuels de fusion et de relative complementarite entre eux comme consequence des profonds changements a la structure corporative des media et aux nouveaux systemes de connexion entre les politiques et les electeurs. Dans l'opinion de Hallin la tradition du professionnalisme ne disparaitra completement, mais au ...
This article considers the debates about press freedom raised by an important case of populist me... more This article considers the debates about press freedom raised by an important case of populist media reform in Latin America, drawing on interviews with Ecuadorian journalists, policy makers, and commentators involved in the policy process. Whereas these cases are commonly understood, following a “libertarian” conception of press freedom, as threats to an independent press, interviewees saw a more complex picture. The majority agreed that press freedom was threatened under former president Rafael Correa’s regime in Ecuador; at the same time, most of respondents considered media regulation necessary given a history of “media capture,” and believed that journalistic professionalism had improved in Correa’s period. These results suggest that press freedom is a multidimensional reality in which the state plays a key role, proposing a further discussion about media regulation and populism in contemporary societies.
Health and medicine are major topics of news coverage, but research on health and medical reporti... more Health and medicine are major topics of news coverage, but research on health and medical reporting has remained mainly confined to specialist subfields, with less impact on broader academic fields, including journalism studies, than would seem warranted by its importance. This article argues that assumptions implicit in much of this literature have limited the development of a wider tradition of research on health journalism. We point particularly to what we call the linear-reflectionist perspective, which sees health journalism as an often-flawed mechanism for transmitting pre-existing medical knowledge to the mass public. We propose an alternative framework that seeks to illuminate the complexity and importance of this field of study.
... journalists' relation to official sources, were much less dramatic. A model for explaini... more ... journalists' relation to official sources, were much less dramatic. A model for explaining changes in the level of critical coverage is offered, emphasizing media response to the degree of consensus or dissensus among political elites. ...
This article examines historical trends in the reporting of health, illness and medicine in UK an... more This article examines historical trends in the reporting of health, illness and medicine in UK and Italian newspapers from 1984 to 2017. It focuses on the increasing "biomedicalization" of health reporting and the framing of health and medicine as a matter of technoscientific interventions. Methodologically, we relied on two large datasets consisting of all the health-and medicine-related articles published in the online archives of The Guardian (UK) and la Repubblica (Italy). These articles underwent a quantitative analysis, based on topic modelling techniques, to identify and analyse relevant topics in the datasets. Moreover, we developed some synthetic indices to support the analysis of how medical and health news are "biomedicalized" in media coverage. Theoretically, we emphasise that media represent a constitutive environment in shaping biomedicalization processes. Our analyses show that across the period under scrutiny, biomedicalization is a relevant, even if sometimes ambivalent, frame in the media sphere, placing growing centrality on three dimensions: i) health and well-being as a matter of individual commitment to self-monitoring and self-surveillance; ii) biomedicine as a large technoscientific enterprise emerging from the entanglement between research fields and their technological embodiments; iii) the multiverse reforms of welfare systems in facing the trade-off between universal health coverage and the need to render the national healthcare system more sustainable and compatible with non-expansionary monetary policies and austerity approaches in managing state government budgets.
Abstract For the mass public as well as for the mass media, war is less a political policy than a... more Abstract For the mass public as well as for the mass media, war is less a political policy than a form of popular culture, an arena of individual and national self‐expression that generates far more emotional involvement than ordinary political events. This essay examines television coverage of the Gulf War, both network and local, from this perspective. It discusses two sides of war, war as an exercise of “purposive‐rational action"—a celebration of technical prowess and professionalism—and war as a celebration of community. The Durkheimian concepts of ritual and civil religion are employed in the discussion of the journalist's role as a celebrant of community unity during wartime. Results of a content analysis of network and local television coverage of the Gulf War, focusing primarily on the visual images employed, are included.
You do not currently have access to this article. Download all figures Based on samp les of netwo... more You do not currently have access to this article. Download all figures Based on samp les of network evening news broadcasts from each p residential election from 1968 through 1988, this article shows that the average sound bite has declined from 43 to 9 seconds. This change is interp reted as p art of a general shift in the style of television news toward a more mediated, journalist-centered form of journalism. Three factors help
... They are committed more strongly to the norms of the profession than to political ideas. ... ... more ... They are committed more strongly to the norms of the profession than to political ideas. ... Still, we shouldn't allow the critique of objectivity, which has occupied so much of the ... professionals of All the President's Men. This was the high modernism of American journalism,' an era ...
... and the 2007 election of his wife, Cristina Kirchner; Brazil, with the 2002 election of Luiz ... more ... and the 2007 election of his wife, Cristina Kirchner; Brazil, with the 2002 election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his ... 2. The articles by Carlos de la Torre, Catherine Conaghan, Sallie Hughes,Manuel alejandro guerrero, and Rousiley Maia were originally presented at the ...
... news tabloid A Current Affair, for example, ended with the tease "Coming up sex, mu... more ... news tabloid A Current Affair, for example, ended with the tease "Coming up sex, murder and videotape, that's next!" It may be that this is indeed the future of television news. It was the local stations that first discovered, late in the 1960s, that news could make money lots of ...
... Brian McNair Pluralism, Politics and the Marketplace The Regulation of German Broadcasting Vi... more ... Brian McNair Pluralism, Politics and the Marketplace The Regulation of German Broadcasting Vincent Porter and Suzanne Hasselbach Potboilers ... Communication Studies Communication, History and Theory in America Hanno Hardt Media Moguls Jeremy Tunstall and Michael ...
Resumen: Este artículo analiza el rol ambivalente de la información de sucesos en la esfera públi... more Resumen: Este artículo analiza el rol ambivalente de la información de sucesos en la esfera pública mexicana, señalando los sesgos de la representación mediática del crimen, la fusión que se produce entre géneros informativos y de entretenimiento, y las diferencias entre programas dirigidos a sectores sociales segmentados según su capacidad adquisitiva. Estas transformaciones son explicadas en relación a dos cambios estructurales de la sociedad mexicana: la democratización y la liberalización económica. Palabras Clave: Medios de comunicación, televisión, información sensacionalista, prensa amarilla, democratización, liberalización económica, México.
Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour CNRS Éditions. Distribution électronique Cairn.info pou... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour CNRS Éditions. Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour CNRS Éditions. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit. Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse https://www.cairn.info/revue-hermes-la-revue-1994-1-page-185.htm Découvrir le sommaire de ce numéro, suivre la revue par email, s'abonner... Flashez ce QR Code pour accéder à la page de ce numéro sur Cairn.info.
This study challenges the ruling orthodoxy that foreign news tends to be reported in divergent wa... more This study challenges the ruling orthodoxy that foreign news tends to be reported in divergent ways, reflecting the interests and identity of the home nation. Instead it concludes that the Greek and US elections in 2012 were reported in very similar ways in the leading news media of five countries located in different continents. In the case of the 2012 Chinese election, there were striking affinities in the news reporting of four out of five countries. Powerful forces that make for global conformity include the dominance of a small number of international news agencies, the emergence of a transnational journalistic culture, the hegemony of market liberal thought, the legacy of the Cold War, and the shared perspectives of allied states.
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