Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across Thematic Beats: A 37-Country Study
Fecha
2023-06-29Registro en:
10.1177/10776990231173890
Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Repositorio Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
Autor
Mellado, Claudia
Márquez-Ramírez, Mireya
Van Leuven, Sarah
Jackson, Daniel
Mothes, Cornelia
Arcila-Calderón, Carlos
Berthaut, Jérome
Blanchett, Nicole
Boudana, Sandrine
Chen, Katherine Y. N.
Davydov, Sergey
De Maio, Mariana
Fahmy, Nagwa
Ferrero, Martina
Garcés, Miguel
Hagen, Lutz
Hallin, Daniel C.
Humanes, María Luisa
Himma-Kadakas, Marju
Keel, Guido
Kozman, Claudia
Krstić, Aleksandra
Lecheler, Sophie
Lee, Misook
I-Hsuan Lin, Christi
Mazzoni, Marco
McGuinness, Kieran
McIntyre, Karen
Mick, Jacques
Navarro, Cristina
Olivera, Dasniel
Pizarro, Marcela
Silke, Henry
Skjerdal, Terje
Stępińska, Agnieszka
Szabó, Gabriella
Viveros Aguilar, Diana
Resumen
Studies suggest that, at the routine level, news beats function as unique “micro-cultures.” Exploring this “particularist” approach in news content, we compare how the interventionist, watchdog, loyal, service, infotainment, and civic roles materialize across 11 thematic news beats and analyze the moderating effect of platforms, ownership, and levels of political freedom on journalistic role performance in hard and soft news. Based on the second wave of the Journalistic Role Performance (JRP) project, this article reports the findings of a content analysis of 148,474 news items from 37 countries. Our results reveal the transversality of interventionism, the strong associations of some topics and roles, and the limited reach of news beat particularism in the face of moderating variables.