How framing of nationally and locally sensitive issues varies? A content analysis of news from party and nonparty newspapers in China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7478564
AutoresXianwen Kuang (0000-0001-5650-8557, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, autor de correspondencia), Rining Wei (0000-0001-7438-4244, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
Año2017
Volumen19
Número9-10
Páginas1435-1451
Fecha de publicación2017-10-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884917731179
OpenAlexW2761811773
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas37

This study investigates how party and nonparty newspapers in China frame sensitive political issues differently, depending on their geographic relevance. Extant studies indicate that political control influences how news organizations present an issue. The assumption is that the framing of nationally sensitive issues is similar across Chinese news outlets, while the framing of locally sensitive issues diverges. An examination of the news frames used by six newspapers in Guangzhou in their coverage of a nationally sensitive issue and a locally sensitive issue confirms this assumption. In the coverage of the nationally sensitive issue, all newspapers use more leadership frames and factual information than responsibility, conflict and human interest frames. Contrastingly, the party newspapers use more leadership frames, whereas nonparty newspapers use more conflict frames in the reporting of the locally sensitive issue

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