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Deconstructing Cancer: What Makes A Good-Quality News Story?, Amanda Wilson, Billie Bonevski, Alison Jones, David Henry

Alison L Jones

Objective: To describe an in-depth analysis of the content and quality of stories about new cancer interventions in Australian media. Design and setting: Search of the Media Doctor Australia media-monitoring website for stories about newly reported cancer interventions, including drugs, diagnostic tests, surgery and complementary therapies, that had been collected from June 2004 to June 2009 and rated for quality using a validated rating instrument. A mixed-methods approach was used to analyse data and story content. Data from the website on stories about other new health interventions and procedures were compared. Main outcome measures: Differences in quality scores between cancer-related …