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(Happy) Easter research Project

Today, my team has decided to cut easter celebration short and start the pre-pre-testing.

Progress

Date collection: Done Total newspapers: 20 (14 Liberals; 14 Conservatives; 2 Centrists) Total articles: 101 (60 liberal; 35 conservative; 5 centrist) Coding manuel: In progress Next step: Reading though examples of PJ articles and Intercoder Reliability test manual; group pre-pre-test

Progress

Data collection: 81 out of 100 news articles already collected. 19 togo before we start the content analysis. 22 Newspapers investigated: 8 liberals (44 articles);  10 consetvatives (29 articles); 4 centrist (8 articles)  

Top ten US newspapers

USA Today, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Daily News, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Newsday and Houston Chronicle.

Kony 2012 campaign in the media

Team members: Billy, Carmen, Karin and Maike. We have given ourselves a task to analyse how Kony 2012, a campaign of the invisible children group, has been reported in the US, possibly UK media. We will not support or criticize Kony 2012 campaign. Instead, we will “just” look at how it was reported. We chose [...]

Peace Journalism according to Billy Batware

Peace journalism is reporting that sees the conflicts through non-violence lenses and covers it by applying relative objectivity with the aim of achieving a peaceful solution to the conflict.