Open AccessThrough a different gate: An automated content analysis of how online news and print news differ
Author(s) -
Burggraaff Christiaan,
Trilling Damian
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.565
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1741-3001
pISSN - 1464-8849
DOI - 10.1177/1464884917716699
Subject(s) - computer science , content analysis , information retrieval , range (aeronautics) , code (set theory) , news values , content (measure theory) , negativity effect , newspaper , psychology , advertising , mathematics , social psychology , set (abstract data type) , business , programming language , sociology , social science , materials science , mathematical analysis , composite material
We investigate how news values differ between online and print news articles. We hypothesize that print and online articles differ in terms of news values because of differences in the routines used to produce them. Based on a quantitative automated content analysis of N = 762,095 Dutch news items, we show that online news items are more likely to be follow-up items than print items, and that there are further differences regarding news values like references to persons, the power elite, negativity, and positivity. In order to conduct this large-scale analysis, we developed innovative methods to automatically code a wide range of news values. In particular, this article demonstrates how techniques such as sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, supervised machine learning, and automated queries of external databases can be combined and used to study journalistic content. Possible explanations for the difference found between online and offline news are discussed.
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