When it comes to complex topics in the field of health and risk communication, experts are of high importance for the credibility of a news media report. This paper examines the use of experts and their roles in the news media coverage of multi-resistant pathogens by means of a quantitative content analysis of German print and online news. A cluster analysis of the expert statements identifies three different statement frames describing different expert roles. The results show manifest patterns of selected expert sources, which points to professionalized mechanisms of selecting expert sources for news media reports. Abstract

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健康交流中的声音-德国新闻中有关多重抗性病原体的专家和专家角色

当涉及健康和风险沟通领域的复杂主题时，专家对于新闻媒体报道的可信度至关重要。本文通过对德国印刷和在线新闻的定量内容分析，研究了专家的使用及其在新闻媒体中对多抗性病原体的报道中的作用。专家陈述的聚类分析确定了描述不同专家角色的三个不同陈述框架。结果显示了选定专家来源的明显模式，这表明为新闻媒体报道选择专家来源的专业化机制。抽象