ABSTRACT

The news media are important for political influence, and interest groups compete for visibility. However, actors on the same policy field also tend to have close ties and cooperate when interests overlap. Existing research on sources has overwhelmingly focused on journalist-source relations, and far less on how news content is negotiated between the sources themselves. Based on triangulation of in-depth interviews with 40 representatives from Norwegian health interest groups, representing business, citizens and medical professionals, the present article unpacks how groups cooperate on media management behind, and in, the media limelight. Conceptualizing cooperation as resource exchange, the study explores the barriers and incentives that condition media cooperation and visibility, theorized as network dependencies. By exploring how interest groups reason and negotiate media cooperation and access, the study adds new insight to the field of news production, and contributes to the theorizing of source representation in the news.

摘要

新闻媒体对于政治影响力很重要，利益集团争夺知名度。但是，同一政策领域的参与者也往往有着密切的联系，并在利益重叠时进行合作。现有的消息来源研究绝大多数集中在新闻记者与消息来源的关系上，而很少涉及消息来源之间如何协商新闻内容。基于对来自挪威健康利益团体的40名代表，企业，公民和医疗专业人员的代表进行的深度访谈的三角剖分，本文揭示了团体如何在背后和内部引起媒体管理方面的合作。该研究将合作概念化为资源交换，探讨了制约媒体合作和可见性的障碍和诱因，理论上被认为是网络依赖性。