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Crime News: Does Quantity Matter?, Rocky Dailey
Crime News: Does Quantity Matter?, Rocky Dailey
Rocky Dailey
Although newspapers have been struggling to maintain reporting muscle, crime and criminal justice content continues to be a staple of local coverage, according to a study commissioned by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ) at John Jay College.
A More National Representation Of Place In Canadian Newspapers, Carrie Buchanan
A More National Representation Of Place In Canadian Newspapers, Carrie Buchanan
Carrie Buchanan
In their design and content, North American daily newspapers construct a complex representation of the
locality they serve and its place in the world. That construct involves the quality and quantity of local news,
relative to news in other geographic categories, and how stories from each category are displayed in the
newspaper’s pages. This article describes a content analysis that quantified and compared the representations
of locality and place in the print versions of two Canadian metropolitan daily newspapers between 1894 and
2005. The results show a marked increase in both the number of national stories and the priority given …