Thematic Structures of EU News in 'Adevarul

• Author: Ruxandra Ileana Boicu
• Position: Associate Professor, PhD, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies, Romania
• Pages: 206-212

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Abstract:

This study assesses the th

quality newspaper. It is meant to mak

coverage in Romanian media. To th

February, 2013). As apparent in prev

states), EU coverage has had a low sh

“Adevarul”. Relying on a cor pus of a

the main thematic areas embedded i

through a statistical a

nalysis of sal

typologies of news framing, which e

structures. This study st ands for a sec

used indicators and discovering new

thematic structures and cultural differ

Keywords

: EU coverage; print press;

1. Introduction

Although there are some previous s

our research purposes is not vast. It

ideological aspects of the Europeani

need for public deliberation, demo

quantitative studies on the EU news

to television news and they focused

parliamentary sessions, elections, e

underlay either measuring news visib

Although we emphasize our researc

this study belongs concerns the wh

print press) that supply information

way this i nformation is usually pres

member states. The visibility

indicat

make up a complex grid meant to

There is also a substantive compone

the thematic structures and evaluativ

involved have synthesized previou

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Corresponding author: ruxandra-

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es and Perspectives

Structures of EU News in “Adevarul”

Ruxandra Boicu

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thematic structure of the news about the European Union, in a

ake up for the scarcity of s pecialized literature and adequate theo

this end, we mon

itored the “Ade varul” daily for one month

revious research in European national media (focused on older E

share in the economy of the a nalyzed media outlets. The same is

f articles published in “Adevarul”, our objective is to reveal and h

d i n this paper editorial strategy, in terms of visibility and p ub

salience indicators. This research was substantiated by the th

h enabled us to explain the differences in visibility of the analyze

section of a cross

-nation

al project that attempts at organizing the

new zones of interest in EU coverage, such as the interrelatio

ferences in the news approach across national media outlets.

ss; news framing

s studies whose objectives are related to ours, the lite

It mainly consists of qualitative analyses, specifically

anization of the national media systems in the EU sta

monstrated through theoretical arguments. It is only

ws hav

e also been published, although their corpuses w

ed on media representation of special events in the EU

, etc.). It is worth mentioning that the authors’ an

isibility or classifying the news themes.

arch on a small corpus, the cross

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national research pr

whole landscape of national media outlets

(Radio, TV

on about the European Union institutions, legislation,

resented to Romanian audiences or to media consume

cators used in our research (news placement, length, fr

to systematically measure the types of EU news in n

onent of our research project, enabling the project tea

tive tendencies preferred in their national media. The r

iously used statistical analysis indicators and have

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