TY - JOUR A1 - Magin, Melanie A1 - Stark, Birgit A1 - Jandura, Olaf A1 - Udris, Linards A1 - Riedl, Andreas A1 - Klein, Miriam A1 - Eisenegger, Mark A1 - Kösters, Raphael A1 - Hofstetter Furrer, Brigitte T1 - Seeing the Whole Picture. Towards a Multi-perspective Approach to News Content Diversity based on Liberal and Deliberative Models of Democracy JF - Journalism Studies N2 - By providing diverse news content, news media are key for a well- functioning public sphere. However, agreement on how to measure news content diversity is lacking. Research often refers to democratic theory as normative reference point, but different models of democracy understand news content diversity differently. Our study makes a unique, innovative contribution to this field: (1) We develop a methodological framework for measuring news content diversity, that is a set of comprehensive measuring instruments that derive different operationalizations of topic and actor diversity each from liberal and deliberative democratic theories. (2) Considering that a good public discourse requires more than diversity, we analyze news content diversity in the context of four other journalistic standards: neutrality, rationality, discursivity, and civility. (3) We prove the applicability of our measuring instruments by means of a standardized content analysis of six German news media as a case study. The different quality profiles of these outlets our analysis reveals are explained by their different functions in the media system. Our study shows how important a multi-perspectival normative approach to news content diversity is, both empirically and theoretically. Future studies on news content diversity should make their normative foundations transparent and derive their indicators purposefully therefrom. KW - Demokratie KW - Massenmedien KW - Inhaltsanalyse KW - Journalismus KW - news content diversity KW - democratic theory KW - standardized content analysis KW - journalistic standards KW - media performance KW - journalistic quality Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2178248 SN - 1461-670X VL - 24 IS - 5 SP - 669 EP - 696 PB - Taylor & Francis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Magin, Melanie A1 - Kösters, Raphael A1 - Jandura, Olaf A1 - Weiß, Ralph A1 - Stark, Birgit A1 - Udris, Linards A1 - Klein, Miriam A1 - Riedl, Andreas A. T1 - Viewpoint Diversity, Balance, Deliberativeness: Assessing the Media Performance of Migration Coverage Multi-Dimensionally Based on Deliberative Democratic Theories JF - Mass Communication and Society N2 - The issue of migration is highly salient in public debates in many countries. Given this salience and the risk of political instrumentalization, often by actors from the far right, it is important for citizens to receive high-quality, differentiated information on the migration issue. This touches upon the question of media performance. While there is abundant research on the media portrayal of the migration issue, this research strand is, surprisingly, hardly linked to research on media performance. We establish this link and present an innovative, sophisticated framework for standardized content analyses on migration. It combines three standards of media performance that are key to deliberative democratic theories—viewpoint diversity, balance, and deliberativeness—and utilizes value frames and the sociological concept of idea elements to measure viewpoint diversity and balance. A first empirical test of our newly developed approach, taking Germany as a case, shows noticeable differences in the media performance of 11 outlets analyzed. This test proves the applicability of our framework, which provides a valuable starting point for future comparative research on the media performance of migration coverage across countries and over time. KW - Meinungsvielfalt KW - Deliberative Demokratie KW - Berichterstattung KW - Migration KW - Journalismus Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-51020 SN - 1520-5436 PB - Informa ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Udris, Linards A1 - Stark, Birgit A1 - Magin, Melanie A1 - Jandura, Olaf A1 - Riedl, Andreas A1 - Klein, Miriam A1 - Furrer, Brigitte Hofstetter A1 - Guix, Ricard Parrilla T1 - Vielfalt in den Nachrichten. Ein Vergleich digitaler und analoger Angebote von öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien und Tageszeitungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz JF - Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft N2 - Vielfalt als zentrale Schlüsselnorm der Medienregulierung prägt die Debatte um den Funktionsauftrag von öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien (ÖRM). Denn mediale Vielfalt gilt als normative Voraussetzung für freie Meinungsbildung und betont damit die demokratiestützende Aufgabe von ÖRM. Mit Blick auf verschiedene Demokratiemodelle und strukturelle Rahmenbedingungen wird Vielfalt als Qualitätsdimension allerdings bislang empirisch – gerade in vergleichender Perspektive – nur vereinzelt analysiert. Dieser Beitrag überprüft mit einer manuellen quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse von fast 6.000 Beiträgen der Politikberichterstattung mit nationalem Bezug, wie vielfältig die Hauptnachrichtensendungen der ÖRM auf ihren traditionellen und Online-Kanälen in Deutschland, Österreich und der deutschsprachigen Schweiz und im Vergleich zu anderen Nachrichtenangeboten sind. Die Resultate zeigen geringe Unterschiede zwischen Offline- und Online-Kanälen und zwischen den Medientypen. Themen- und Akteursvielfalt sind relativ hoch, mit Einschränkungen durch den Fokus auf Akteure der Exekutive. Gleichzeitig reflektiert die Berichterstattung politische Systeme und Demokratiemodelle; entsprechend fällt der Fokus auf die Exekutive im liberal-repräsentativen Modell in Deutschland am stärksten aus, während die stärkere Präsenz von Parlament und organisierter Zivilgesellschaft in der Schweiz eher dem deliberativen Modell entspricht. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2023-1-2-61 SN - 1615-634X VL - 71 IS - 1-2 SP - 61 EP - 84 PB - Nomos Verlag ER -