Revisions of the news paradigm

Changes in stylistic features between 1950 and 2008 in the journalism of Norway’s largest newspaper

Bibliographic Data

ID7477516
AuthorsSvennik Hoyer (University of Oslo, corresponding author), Hedda A Nossen (University of Oslo)
Year2014
Volume16
Issue4
Pages536-552
Publication date2014-03-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884914524518
OpenAlexW2171215718
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited21

Have the nature of printed news stories changed in competition with new media? Our content analysis of Norway’s largest morning newspaper Aftenposten in four time cuts between 1950 and 2008 revealed that the length of news stories had increased until 2008 when the newspaper had changed to the tabloid format with a mixture of both brief and lengthy articles. News stories tended to have broader time frames in more recent years. The frequency of simpler forms of news stories like reports of meetings and social events had diminished considerably. In the last 20 years, journalists have also become more visible in the text. We will look at these findings against a historical background

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