"What do the papers say?" How press reviews link national media arenas in Europe

Erbe, Jessica (author)

Numerous empirical studies have measured to what degree national mass media arenas in Europe converge in terms of news agendas, ways of framing, and reporting political claims from other countries or EU actors. This article suggests explaining such output oriented findings with a theoretical model of mechanisms that link different mass media arenas. It is derived from national settings, where mass media arenas are also highly fragmented and yet sufficiently interlinked to be considered a public sphere. The most prominent mechanism is news agencies providing similar input to many arenas. The article draws attention to an under-investigated mechanisms of cooperation, mutual observation, and inter-referencing between different media outlets. Empirical evidence about press reviews in several European countries is presented here for the first time. The daily practice of radio stations, newspapers, or websites, to explicitly quote commentaries or news from other media is found to be a routine in many countries, and it often crosses national borders. The results suggest that the 'opinion geography' of press reviews differs from the usual 'news geography' in European media, frequently entailing a Europeanised perspective on whose views are seen as relevant.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2005
• Number of pages: Str. 75-92
• Numbering: Vol. 12, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-75430
• UDC: 659.3/.4
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24238685
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost = The public
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, European Institute for Communication and Culture
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown
• Title: "Kaj pravijo časopisi?" Kako pregledi tiska povezujejo nacionalne medijske arene v Evropi

Abstract

Članek opozarja na malo raziskane mehanizme sodelovanja, vzajemnega opazovanjain nanašanja med različnimi mediji. Doslej še niso bili objavljeni empirični podatki o pregledih tiska v medijih različnih evropskih držav. Dnevna praksa radijskih postaj, časopisov in spletnih strani, da posredujejo komentarje ali novice iz drugih medijev je v mnogih državah postala običajna in pogosto sega preko nacionalnih meja. Rezultati raziskave kažejo, da se "mnenjska geografija" pregledov tiska razlikuje od običajne "poročevalske geografije" evropskih medijev, pri čemer je videti pomembnejša evropska perspektiva