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Problems and Solutions for American Political Coverage: Journalistic self-critique in the wake of the 2016 presidential election

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Wang, Q; Napoli, PM; Ma, Y
Published in: Journalism Practice
November 26, 2018

Drawing on Shoemaker and her colleagues’ five levels of analysis, i.e. the individual, routine, organization, institutional, and social system levels, this study examines news media’s post-election self-examination. This study uses natural language processing-related techniques to analyze a corpus of news articles published 10 days after the election day to understand the nature and distribution of identified problems and proposed solutions at the five levels. This study finds that news media's inward reflections focused more on the routine level while problems at individual and organizational levels were not prominently examined. Outwardly, more discussions were pointed to institutions that share the media ecosystem with the news industry. This study serves as an empirical contribution to metajournalistic discourse analysis. Findings reveal the discursive struggle to construct and reconstruct the journalistic field.

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Journalism Practice

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EISSN

1751-2794

ISSN

1751-2786

Publication Date

November 26, 2018

Volume

12

Issue

10

Start / End Page

1241 / 1258

Related Subject Headings

  • 4701 Communication and media studies
  • 3602 Creative and professional writing
  • 2001 Communication and Media Studies
  • 1903 Journalism and Professional Writing
 

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Wang, Q., Napoli, P. M., & Ma, Y. (2018). Problems and Solutions for American Political Coverage: Journalistic self-critique in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. Journalism Practice, 12(10), 1241–1258. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2017.1394209
Wang, Q., P. M. Napoli, and Y. Ma. “Problems and Solutions for American Political Coverage: Journalistic self-critique in the wake of the 2016 presidential election.” Journalism Practice 12, no. 10 (November 26, 2018): 1241–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2017.1394209.
Wang, Q., et al. “Problems and Solutions for American Political Coverage: Journalistic self-critique in the wake of the 2016 presidential election.” Journalism Practice, vol. 12, no. 10, Nov. 2018, pp. 1241–58. Scopus, doi:10.1080/17512786.2017.1394209.

Published In

Journalism Practice

DOI

EISSN

1751-2794

ISSN

1751-2786

Publication Date

November 26, 2018

Volume

12

Issue

10

Start / End Page

1241 / 1258

Related Subject Headings

  • 4701 Communication and media studies
  • 3602 Creative and professional writing
  • 2001 Communication and Media Studies
  • 1903 Journalism and Professional Writing