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Event- , politics-, and audience-driven news: a comparison of populism in European media coverage in 2016 and 2017

Esser, Frank; Stepinska, Agnieszka; Pekacek, Ondrey; Seddone, Antonella; Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos; Peicheva, Dobrinka; Milojevic, Ana; Blassnig, Sina; Engesser, Sven (2019). Event- , politics-, and audience-driven news: a comparison of populism in European media coverage in 2016 and 2017. In: Reinemann, Carsten; Stanyer, James; Aalberg, Toril; Esser, Frank; de Vreese, Claes H. Communicating populism : comparing actor perceptions, media coverage, and effects on citizens in Europe. New York: Routledge, 123-140.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on trends in reporting over time. It examines the presence of populist key messages in “news coverage of immigration” and “commentaries on current political events” in European newspapers at two points in time, namely spring 2016 and spring 2017. The chapter has a twofold aim. First, it will explore similarities and differences in the populist content of European newspapers between the two periods. Second, it identifies a set of extra-media and intra-media explanatory factors contributing to the understanding of the emerging differences in a year-to-year comparison. The chapter by Blassnig et al. in this volume provides more detailed information about the newspaper stories we content-analyzed. Two types of stories are analyzed: ‘news articles on immigration’, and ‘editorials commenting on current political events’ irrespective of the topic. While the chapter by Blassnig et al. pooled and jointly investigated the data from 2016 and 2017, and the chapter by Maurer et al. in this volume, used only content data from 2017, this chapter will evaluate and compare the data from 2016 and 2017. These two periods are seen as two phases of a news and policy cycle that responds to real world cues. The two phases are understood as stages of a crisis, which offer more or less favorable opportunity structures for populist discourse (Moffitt, 2015). As stated in the introduction to this volume, a whole range of contextual factors influence the populist worldview of crises and, subsequently, the use of populist communication in news reports and commentaries about theses crises.

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Item Type:Book Section, not_refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Department of Communication and Media Research
Dewey Decimal Classification:070 News media, journalism & publishing
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > General Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences & Humanities > General Social Sciences
Language:English
Date:2019
Deposited On:27 Aug 2019 12:24
Last Modified:21 Oct 2024 01:41
Publisher:Routledge
ISBN:978-1-138-39272-4
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429402067-7
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