This study examines if the closeness of the event influences the use of frames and news values for Dutch crime news reports. A corpus of 90 crime news reports was analysed in order to identify differences and similarities ...

Climate change is too complex to be perceived directly by individuals. This means that the media must put information about climate change into a format that makes the issue newsworthy. This study examined the reflection ...

Through new technologies, events that occur around the whole world can become news in the Netherlands. The fact that these stories are about events that occurred in foreign countries might have an effect on the news values ...

This study has aimed to assess the variations in the usage of negative versus positive framing devices to present Trump in states that either voted for or against him during the presidential elections of 2016. It aspired ...

This thesis contains an analysis of the different types of frames one might encounter in news articles, specifically on the topic of crime. The frames discussed in the theoretical part are applied in analysing a certain ...

In this thesis, I study how the most recent federal government shutdown in the United States is framed in The Washington Times and The Huffington Post in terms of positivity and negativity. Precisely, these newspapers were ...

This study makes a cross-cultural comparison between Dutch and American climate change coverage during the period 1988-1997. The purpose of the study was to explore whether news articles on climate change are different in ...

In several studies of English data, researchers observed a trend of informalization: a shift towards a more conversational style in written discourse. This trend is directly related to subjectivity. The aim of this ...