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 ...

From the early 2000s, men and women in all parts of the world have marched to incite their local government to remove legislative obstacles which prevent women from obtaining an abortion. In the past years, the debate ...

Framing, in the context of news stories, mainly concerns the way an issue is defined or problematized, by selecting certain aspects of a perceived reality. Frames provide a context through which the receiver can interpret ...

Frames on minorities is a widely discussed subject. Articles on refugees use more human interest frames whereas the frames on Muslims seem to change before and after key events. This research analysed a 63 article corpus ...

Photography enables us to better imagine happenings, to put a face on people, to take a closer look at their concerns and to be a witness of events. Different images can have a different influence on the individual. This ...