Daniel Riffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4503049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Riffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Riffe |
| SIGNATURE | RIFFE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Media and money
This study compared 50 years of the New York Times’ international news (N = 20,765) with U.S. foreign aid allocations and country rankings in Freedom House's Freedom in the World report to understand how the amount of foreign aid relates to the amount and content of coverage of nations as well as whether/how political similarity impacts coverage and aid. Nations receiving the highest level of aid received the most news coverage and topics of cove…
Domestic violence in Appalachian newspaper coverage
Social and physical isolation, gender roles, cultural values, and poverty associated with the Appalachian region of the United States may shape how domestic violence is identified, discussed and addressed. This analysis identifies framing devices, sourcing, and mobilizing information within domestic violence news coverage across Appalachia, and compares coverage in three “economic status” regions marked by higher rates of poverty and unemployment…
Interlocking among American Newspaper Organizations Revisited
Today’s media companies seem to be more intertwined than ever. But are they? Do these “interlocks” affect editors and the content journalists produce? This study uses a three-method design to examine the connections among newspaper organizations and corporations. The network analysis examined the interlocks among newspaper companies’ directors. The second phase surveyed editors of newspapers owned by these companies to assess the influence on the…
Analyzing Media Messages
Analyzing Media Messages, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive guide to conducting content analysis research. It establishes a formal definition of quantitative content analysis; gives step-by-step instructions on designing a content analysis study; and explores in depth several recurring questions that arise in such areas as measurement, sampling, reliability, data analysis, and the use of digital technology in the content analysis process. T…
Follow the Leader
This research article examined the perception of reporters and news managers at local television stations in the United States regarding “solo journalism.” Solo journalism is the work practice in which a single reporter is expected to gather information, write, shoot video, and edit their news stories on their own. This is contrasted with a traditional news crew in which those tasks distributed among at least two workers, sometimes more. Based on…
The World at War
This quantitative content analysis uses 36 years of New York Times international news to understand how conflict coverage is presented to audiences in terms of quantity and geographic focus, whether conflict is covered because of its linkage to US interests, and whether the Times relies on its own personnel for first-hand coverage. Additionally, a contemporary history approach gauges how representative coverage is of conflicts in varying regions.…
Digging for (Ratings) Gold
Investigative journalism’s value to democracy is straightforward: it provides useful information to citizens by exposing wrongdoing and holding powerful institutions accountable. But its financial value is questionable. There are indications that this often-expensive form of reporting can enhance audiences and thereby increase revenue, but very few large-scale projects have examined the connection between investigative content and audiences. Nume…
Issues and Best Practices in Content Analysis
This article discusses three issues concerning content analysis method and ends with a list of best practices in conducting and reporting content analysis projects. Issues addressed include the use of search and databases for sampling, the differences between content analysis and algorithmic text analysis, and which reliability coefficients should be calculated and reported. The “Best Practices” section provides steps to produce reliable and vali…
Assessing the Reporting of Reliability in Published Content Analyses
Content analysis is a common research method employed in communication studies. An important part of content analysis is establishing the reliability of the coding protocol, and reporting must be detailed enough to allow for replication of methodological procedures. This study employed a content analysis of published content analysis articles (N=581) in three communication journals over a 26-year period to examine changes in reliability sampling …
Perceived Threat, Immigration Policy Support, and Media Coverage
This study, using survey data (N 529), examined perceived immigration ‘‘threat,’’ subjective knowledge, support for punitive and assimilative immigration policies, and opinions about media coverage effects. Perceived threat was not related to a third-person effect; however, perceived threat of immigrants was related to support for punitive immigration policies, and a strong ‘‘hostile media perception’ ’ was con-firmed. There was a significant bel…
Structural Determinants of Local Public Affairs Place Blogging
This study examines the relationship between community-level characteristics and the presence of public affairs place blogs in 232 U.S. cities. Two models to predict the presence of these sites are tested: a structural pluralism model, which suggests that the presence of one of these sites reflects more pluralistic voices, and a community stress model, which suggests that the presence of these sites reflects citizens’ efforts to cope with communi…
Voters' Attention, Perceived Effects, and Voting Preferences
A statewide survey (N = 564) before Ohio's 2006 gubernatorial election examined political interest, campaign news and advertising attention, and perceived effects of negative political ads. Interest was related to political and negative political advertising attention, which were in turn related to campaign news attention. Candidate preference predicted attention to political and negative political ads; attention to ads significantly predicted pe…
Citizen Journalism Web Sites Complement Newspapers
A content analysis of 86 citizen blog sites, 53 citizen news sites and 63 daily newspaper sites indicated that citizen journalism sites, including both news and blog sites, differed significantly from newspaper sites
Newspapers Get High Marks on Environmental Report Card
National survey data compares newspapers with other media as sources of environmental information and assesses how well they cover causes, victims, responsibility, solutions and costs of environmental problems
Attention, Perception, and Perceived Effects
Based on a statewide telephone survey before the 2004 presidential election, this study probes Ohioans' attention to and perception of campaign advertising and the perceived effects of those negative political ads. Citizens in this “battleground” state had a very high level of awareness of campaign advertising, characterizing it as more negative than in the past. Self-reported attention to the campaign and measured use of local and national telev…
Analyzing media messages
"Analyzing Media Messages: Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research provides a comprehensive and comprehensible guide to conducting content analysis research. It establishes a formal definition of quantitative content analysis; gives step-by-step instruction on designing a content analysis study; and explores in depth research questions that recur in content analysis, in such areas as measurement, sampling, reliability, data analysis, vali…
Characteristics, Responsibilities, and Concerns of Teaching Faculty
Who are journalism/mass communication educators? Where and how do they work and what concerns them about that work, how are they compensated, and how happy are they with what they do? Those questions might have been answered easily in the early years of professional journalism education. When the American Association of Teachers of Journalism, forerunner of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, held its inaugural mee…
Sampling Error and Selecting Intercoder Reliability Samples for Nominal Content Categories
This study views intercoder reliability as a sampling problem. It develops a formula for generating sample sizes needed to have valid reliability estimates. It also suggests steps for reporting reliability. The resulting sample sizes will permit a known degree of confidence that the agreement in a sample of items is representative of the pattern that would occur if all content items were coded by all coders.
The Shrinking Foreign Newshole of the New York Times
The Times has fewer, but longer international stories than it did two decades ago, and the front page contains a higher proportion of international items
Mood Influence on the Appeal of Bad News
Respondents were placed into a bad or good mood and then provided with reading choices. They chose magazine articles that featured either bad or good news. In agreement with theoretical expectations, women in a bad mood were drawn to good news, sampling significantly more of it than women in a good mood. Men did not show this preference, however. Gender-specific selection of news stories was further evident in that women in a bad mood sampled les…
The Effectiveness of Random, Consecutive Day and Constructed Week Sampling in Newspaper Content Analysis
This study compares 20 sets each of samples of four different sizes (n=7, 14, 21 and 28) using simple random, constructed week and consecutive day samples of newspaper content. Comparisons of sample efficiency, based on the percentage of sample means in each set of 20 falling within one or two standard errors of the population mean, show the superiority of constructed week sampling.
International News and Borrowed News in the New York Times
This content analysis shows the number of international news items in the New York Times has decreased over the last 22 years. Roughly one in five items contained second-hand or borrowed news (material first disseminated by and attributed to another news organization), though trend analysis indicates increasing news borrowing. Borrowed news was most common in items from Second World (Communist) nations, but the proportion has dropped significantl…
Chiang and Mao in U.S. News Magazines
Press Coverage of Blacks and the Black Community
This mail survey of black elected officials in state legislatures looked at black elected officials' views on white Press coverage of the black community, evaluation of the black elected officials' own relationships with the white Press, and ways that these black elected officials think that the white Press can improve coverage of news about blacks and the black community. Coverage of the black community was seen generally as insensitive, incompl…
Gatekeeping and the Network News Mix
The Shrinking Foreign Newshole of the New York Times
The Times has fewer, but longer international stories than it did two decades ago, and the front page contains a higher proportion of international items
Perceived Threat, Immigration Policy Support, and Media Coverage
This study, using survey data (N 529), examined perceived immigration ‘‘threat,’’ subjective knowledge, support for punitive and assimilative immigration policies, and opinions about media coverage effects. Perceived threat was not related to a third-person effect; however, perceived threat of immigrants was related to support for punitive immigration policies, and a strong ‘‘hostile media perception’ ’ was con-firmed. There was a significant bel…
Citizen Journalism Web Sites Complement Newspapers
A content analysis of 86 citizen blog sites, 53 citizen news sites and 63 daily newspaper sites indicated that citizen journalism sites, including both news and blog sites, differed significantly from newspaper sites
Mood Influence on the Appeal of Bad News
Respondents were placed into a bad or good mood and then provided with reading choices. They chose magazine articles that featured either bad or good news. In agreement with theoretical expectations, women in a bad mood were drawn to good news, sampling significantly more of it than women in a good mood. Men did not show this preference, however. Gender-specific selection of news stories was further evident in that women in a bad mood sampled les…
Gatekeeping and the Network News Mix
Attention, Perception, and Perceived Effects
Based on a statewide telephone survey before the 2004 presidential election, this study probes Ohioans' attention to and perception of campaign advertising and the perceived effects of those negative political ads. Citizens in this “battleground” state had a very high level of awareness of campaign advertising, characterizing it as more negative than in the past. Self-reported attention to the campaign and measured use of local and national telev…
International News and Borrowed News in the New York Times
This content analysis shows the number of international news items in the New York Times has decreased over the last 22 years. Roughly one in five items contained second-hand or borrowed news (material first disseminated by and attributed to another news organization), though trend analysis indicates increasing news borrowing. Borrowed news was most common in items from Second World (Communist) nations, but the proportion has dropped significantl…
Assessing the Reporting of Reliability in Published Content Analyses
Content analysis is a common research method employed in communication studies. An important part of content analysis is establishing the reliability of the coding protocol, and reporting must be detailed enough to allow for replication of methodological procedures. This study employed a content analysis of published content analysis articles (N=581) in three communication journals over a 26-year period to examine changes in reliability sampling …
Domestic violence in Appalachian newspaper coverage
Social and physical isolation, gender roles, cultural values, and poverty associated with the Appalachian region of the United States may shape how domestic violence is identified, discussed and addressed. This analysis identifies framing devices, sourcing, and mobilizing information within domestic violence news coverage across Appalachia, and compares coverage in three “economic status” regions marked by higher rates of poverty and unemployment…
Digging for (Ratings) Gold
Investigative journalism’s value to democracy is straightforward: it provides useful information to citizens by exposing wrongdoing and holding powerful institutions accountable. But its financial value is questionable. There are indications that this often-expensive form of reporting can enhance audiences and thereby increase revenue, but very few large-scale projects have examined the connection between investigative content and audiences. Nume…
Structural Determinants of Local Public Affairs Place Blogging
This study examines the relationship between community-level characteristics and the presence of public affairs place blogs in 232 U.S. cities. Two models to predict the presence of these sites are tested: a structural pluralism model, which suggests that the presence of one of these sites reflects more pluralistic voices, and a community stress model, which suggests that the presence of these sites reflects citizens’ efforts to cope with communi…
Interlocking among American Newspaper Organizations Revisited
Today’s media companies seem to be more intertwined than ever. But are they? Do these “interlocks” affect editors and the content journalists produce? This study uses a three-method design to examine the connections among newspaper organizations and corporations. The network analysis examined the interlocks among newspaper companies’ directors. The second phase surveyed editors of newspapers owned by these companies to assess the influence on the…
Follow the Leader
This research article examined the perception of reporters and news managers at local television stations in the United States regarding “solo journalism.” Solo journalism is the work practice in which a single reporter is expected to gather information, write, shoot video, and edit their news stories on their own. This is contrasted with a traditional news crew in which those tasks distributed among at least two workers, sometimes more. Based on…
Voters' Attention, Perceived Effects, and Voting Preferences
A statewide survey (N = 564) before Ohio's 2006 gubernatorial election examined political interest, campaign news and advertising attention, and perceived effects of negative political ads. Interest was related to political and negative political advertising attention, which were in turn related to campaign news attention. Candidate preference predicted attention to political and negative political ads; attention to ads significantly predicted pe…
Newspapers Get High Marks on Environmental Report Card
National survey data compares newspapers with other media as sources of environmental information and assesses how well they cover causes, victims, responsibility, solutions and costs of environmental problems
Characteristics, Responsibilities, and Concerns of Teaching Faculty
Who are journalism/mass communication educators? Where and how do they work and what concerns them about that work, how are they compensated, and how happy are they with what they do? Those questions might have been answered easily in the early years of professional journalism education. When the American Association of Teachers of Journalism, forerunner of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, held its inaugural mee…
Gatekeeping and the Network News Mix
Chiang and Mao in U.S. News Magazines
Press Coverage of Blacks and the Black Community
This mail survey of black elected officials in state legislatures looked at black elected officials' views on white Press coverage of the black community, evaluation of the black elected officials' own relationships with the white Press, and ways that these black elected officials think that the white Press can improve coverage of news about blacks and the black community. Coverage of the black community was seen generally as insensitive, incompl…
The Effectiveness of Random, Consecutive Day and Constructed Week Sampling in Newspaper Content Analysis
This study compares 20 sets each of samples of four different sizes (n=7, 14, 21 and 28) using simple random, constructed week and consecutive day samples of newspaper content. Comparisons of sample efficiency, based on the percentage of sample means in each set of 20 falling within one or two standard errors of the population mean, show the superiority of constructed week sampling.
International News and Borrowed News in the New York Times
This content analysis shows the number of international news items in the New York Times has decreased over the last 22 years. Roughly one in five items contained second-hand or borrowed news (material first disseminated by and attributed to another news organization), though trend analysis indicates increasing news borrowing. Borrowed news was most common in items from Second World (Communist) nations, but the proportion has dropped significantl…
The Shrinking Foreign Newshole of the New York Times
The Times has fewer, but longer international stories than it did two decades ago, and the front page contains a higher proportion of international items
Mood Influence on the Appeal of Bad News
Respondents were placed into a bad or good mood and then provided with reading choices. They chose magazine articles that featured either bad or good news. In agreement with theoretical expectations, women in a bad mood were drawn to good news, sampling significantly more of it than women in a good mood. Men did not show this preference, however. Gender-specific selection of news stories was further evident in that women in a bad mood sampled les…
Sampling Error and Selecting Intercoder Reliability Samples for Nominal Content Categories
This study views intercoder reliability as a sampling problem. It develops a formula for generating sample sizes needed to have valid reliability estimates. It also suggests steps for reporting reliability. The resulting sample sizes will permit a known degree of confidence that the agreement in a sample of items is representative of the pattern that would occur if all content items were coded by all coders.
Characteristics, Responsibilities, and Concerns of Teaching Faculty
Who are journalism/mass communication educators? Where and how do they work and what concerns them about that work, how are they compensated, and how happy are they with what they do? Those questions might have been answered easily in the early years of professional journalism education. When the American Association of Teachers of Journalism, forerunner of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, held its inaugural mee…
Analyzing media messages
"Analyzing Media Messages: Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research provides a comprehensive and comprehensible guide to conducting content analysis research. It establishes a formal definition of quantitative content analysis; gives step-by-step instruction on designing a content analysis study; and explores in depth research questions that recur in content analysis, in such areas as measurement, sampling, reliability, data analysis, vali…
Newspapers Get High Marks on Environmental Report Card
National survey data compares newspapers with other media as sources of environmental information and assesses how well they cover causes, victims, responsibility, solutions and costs of environmental problems
Attention, Perception, and Perceived Effects
Based on a statewide telephone survey before the 2004 presidential election, this study probes Ohioans' attention to and perception of campaign advertising and the perceived effects of those negative political ads. Citizens in this “battleground” state had a very high level of awareness of campaign advertising, characterizing it as more negative than in the past. Self-reported attention to the campaign and measured use of local and national telev…
Voters' Attention, Perceived Effects, and Voting Preferences
A statewide survey (N = 564) before Ohio's 2006 gubernatorial election examined political interest, campaign news and advertising attention, and perceived effects of negative political ads. Interest was related to political and negative political advertising attention, which were in turn related to campaign news attention. Candidate preference predicted attention to political and negative political ads; attention to ads significantly predicted pe…
Citizen Journalism Web Sites Complement Newspapers
A content analysis of 86 citizen blog sites, 53 citizen news sites and 63 daily newspaper sites indicated that citizen journalism sites, including both news and blog sites, differed significantly from newspaper sites
Structural Determinants of Local Public Affairs Place Blogging
This study examines the relationship between community-level characteristics and the presence of public affairs place blogs in 232 U.S. cities. Two models to predict the presence of these sites are tested: a structural pluralism model, which suggests that the presence of one of these sites reflects more pluralistic voices, and a community stress model, which suggests that the presence of these sites reflects citizens’ efforts to cope with communi…
Perceived Threat, Immigration Policy Support, and Media Coverage
This study, using survey data (N 529), examined perceived immigration ‘‘threat,’’ subjective knowledge, support for punitive and assimilative immigration policies, and opinions about media coverage effects. Perceived threat was not related to a third-person effect; however, perceived threat of immigrants was related to support for punitive immigration policies, and a strong ‘‘hostile media perception’ ’ was con-firmed. There was a significant bel…
Assessing the Reporting of Reliability in Published Content Analyses
Content analysis is a common research method employed in communication studies. An important part of content analysis is establishing the reliability of the coding protocol, and reporting must be detailed enough to allow for replication of methodological procedures. This study employed a content analysis of published content analysis articles (N=581) in three communication journals over a 26-year period to examine changes in reliability sampling …
Issues and Best Practices in Content Analysis
This article discusses three issues concerning content analysis method and ends with a list of best practices in conducting and reporting content analysis projects. Issues addressed include the use of search and databases for sampling, the differences between content analysis and algorithmic text analysis, and which reliability coefficients should be calculated and reported. The “Best Practices” section provides steps to produce reliable and vali…
Analyzing Media Messages
Analyzing Media Messages, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive guide to conducting content analysis research. It establishes a formal definition of quantitative content analysis; gives step-by-step instructions on designing a content analysis study; and explores in depth several recurring questions that arise in such areas as measurement, sampling, reliability, data analysis, and the use of digital technology in the content analysis process. T…
Follow the Leader
This research article examined the perception of reporters and news managers at local television stations in the United States regarding “solo journalism.” Solo journalism is the work practice in which a single reporter is expected to gather information, write, shoot video, and edit their news stories on their own. This is contrasted with a traditional news crew in which those tasks distributed among at least two workers, sometimes more. Based on…
The World at War
This quantitative content analysis uses 36 years of New York Times international news to understand how conflict coverage is presented to audiences in terms of quantity and geographic focus, whether conflict is covered because of its linkage to US interests, and whether the Times relies on its own personnel for first-hand coverage. Additionally, a contemporary history approach gauges how representative coverage is of conflicts in varying regions.…
Digging for (Ratings) Gold
Investigative journalism’s value to democracy is straightforward: it provides useful information to citizens by exposing wrongdoing and holding powerful institutions accountable. But its financial value is questionable. There are indications that this often-expensive form of reporting can enhance audiences and thereby increase revenue, but very few large-scale projects have examined the connection between investigative content and audiences. Nume…
Domestic violence in Appalachian newspaper coverage
Social and physical isolation, gender roles, cultural values, and poverty associated with the Appalachian region of the United States may shape how domestic violence is identified, discussed and addressed. This analysis identifies framing devices, sourcing, and mobilizing information within domestic violence news coverage across Appalachia, and compares coverage in three “economic status” regions marked by higher rates of poverty and unemployment…
Interlocking among American Newspaper Organizations Revisited
Today’s media companies seem to be more intertwined than ever. But are they? Do these “interlocks” affect editors and the content journalists produce? This study uses a three-method design to examine the connections among newspaper organizations and corporations. The network analysis examined the interlocks among newspaper companies’ directors. The second phase surveyed editors of newspapers owned by these companies to assess the influence on the…
Media and money
This study compared 50 years of the New York Times’ international news (N = 20,765) with U.S. foreign aid allocations and country rankings in Freedom House's Freedom in the World report to understand how the amount of foreign aid relates to the amount and content of coverage of nations as well as whether/how political similarity impacts coverage and aid. Nations receiving the highest level of aid received the most news coverage and topics of cove…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Media Studies and Communication (14 works) · Advertising (11 works) · Business (11 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Newspaper (7 works)