Experts in Election News Coverage
Previous studies have shown that experts appearing in the media are increasingly speculating about trends and developments rather than presenting their own research. With respect to political journalism, this raises the question of whether increased use of expert sources has also led to an increased...
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| author | Albæk Erik Elmelund-Præstekær Christian Hopmann David Nicolas Klemmensen Robert |
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| description | Previous studies have shown that experts appearing in the media are increasingly speculating about trends and developments rather than presenting their own research. With respect to political journalism, this raises the question of whether increased use of expert sources has also led to an increased focus on process relative to substance in election news coverage. The study, conducted in 1998 and 2007, surveys what types of experts are referred to in the election coverage, what topics the experts comment on (in particular whether they focus on substance or process), and whether the number and types of experts as well as topics have changed over time. As expected, there is an increase in newspapers’ references to experts in their election campaign coverage. However, contrary to our expectations, in both 1998 and 2007, there is an equal number of articles referring to the election campaign’s political content (i.e., they mentioned the topics promoted by the political actors during the campaign) and to the political process. And extremely few articles included meta-discussions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-872c6475dddd46d39277e929de28b0e72023-09-02T22:16:43ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192011-06-01321455810.1515/nor-2017-0104Experts in Election News CoverageAlbæk Erik0Elmelund-Præstekær Christian1Hopmann David Nicolas2Klemmensen Robert3Ph.D., Professor, Centre for Journalism, Department of Political Science, University of Southern DenmarkPh.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Southern DenmarkPh.D., Assistant Professor, Centre for Journalism, Department of Political Science, University of Southern DenmarkPh.D., Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Southern DenmarkPrevious studies have shown that experts appearing in the media are increasingly speculating about trends and developments rather than presenting their own research. With respect to political journalism, this raises the question of whether increased use of expert sources has also led to an increased focus on process relative to substance in election news coverage. The study, conducted in 1998 and 2007, surveys what types of experts are referred to in the election coverage, what topics the experts comment on (in particular whether they focus on substance or process), and whether the number and types of experts as well as topics have changed over time. As expected, there is an increase in newspapers’ references to experts in their election campaign coverage. However, contrary to our expectations, in both 1998 and 2007, there is an equal number of articles referring to the election campaign’s political content (i.e., they mentioned the topics promoted by the political actors during the campaign) and to the political process. And extremely few articles included meta-discussions.https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0104process newsmeta-coverageelection coverageexperts |
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| title_full | Experts in Election News Coverage |
| title_fullStr | Experts in Election News Coverage |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experts in Election News Coverage |
| title_short | Experts in Election News Coverage |
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| topic | process news meta-coverage election coverage experts |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0104 |
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