Eventless news: Blindspots in journalism and the 'long tail' of news content

IF 0.4 Q4 COMMUNICATION Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI:10.1386/ajms_00003_1
Helle Sjøvaag, Nina Kvalheim
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The news media is frequently criticized for ignoring, missing or overseeing important, socio-politically relevant news. Such journalistic blindspots are often part of the 'long' news agenda, requiring resources, in-depth knowledge and investigation. In this article, we analyse what news topics are most infrequently covered by the media ‐ the micro-categories of content analysis. A content analysis of 70 news outlets in Norway (n=8182) reveals that the news topics receiving less than 1 per cent of coverage are social issues, international crime and the economy. This bottom-up perspective demonstrates that under-reported news constitutes predominantly 'eventless' issues, sustaining event-centredness as an agenda-setting news value. Finding that more than half of the content categories in the Norwegian corpus receive less than 1 per cent coverage, we propose, however, that the sum of these blindspots engenders a 'long tail' of journalistic coverage that together facilitates news diversity.
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无事件新闻:新闻业的盲点和新闻内容的“长尾”
新闻媒体经常因忽视、遗漏或监督重要的、与社会政治相关的新闻而受到批评。这些新闻盲点往往是“长”新闻议程的一部分,需要资源、深入的知识和调查。在本文中,我们分析了媒体最不常报道的新闻主题-内容分析的微观类别。一项对挪威70家新闻媒体(n=8182)的内容分析显示,获得不到1%报道的新闻主题是社会问题、国际犯罪和经济。这种自下而上的观点表明,报道不足的新闻主要构成“无事件”问题,维持以事件为中心的新闻价值,使其成为设定议程的新闻价值。发现挪威语料库中超过一半的内容类别获得的报道不到1%,我们提出,然而,这些盲点的总和产生了新闻报道的“长尾”,共同促进了新闻的多样性。
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