ABSTRACT

Based on a content analysis of 33,640 news stories from the Journalistic Role Performance project, this paper analyzes how civic, service and infotainment roles connect with thematic beats and vary across media organizations and cultures. We examine differences in role performance across politics, economics, crime, social affairs, court, and miscellaneous news beats in print news from 64 media outlets in 18 countries. Our study sheds light on the multiple ways in which thematic beats define the performance of audience-oriented roles in the news across countries. We offer multiple insights into how thematic beats are shaped by national journalistic cultures and news organizations' structural characteristics, with media audience orientation and ownership strongly affecting this relationship. Considering the factors at play, we propose a typology of news beats regarding their relationship to audiences.

摘要

基于对新闻角色表演中 33,640 条新闻报道的内容分析项目中，本文分析了公民、服务和信息娱乐角色如何与主题节拍相关联，并在不同的媒体组织和文化中有所不同。我们研究了来自 18 个国家/地区的 64 家媒体的印刷新闻中政治、经济、犯罪、社会事务、法庭和杂项新闻中的角色表现差异。我们的研究阐明了主题节拍在不同国家/地区的新闻中定义以受众为导向的角色表现的多种方式。我们就国家新闻文化和新闻机构的结构特征如何塑造主题节拍提供了多种见解，媒体受众导向和所有权强烈影响了这种关系。考虑到起作用的因素，我们提出了新闻节拍的类型学 关于他们与观众的关系。