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This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage. The authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the commercial basis of media outlets. The findings - drawn from a machine learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study - will interest academics as well as politicians and policymakers internationally.

Trade Review

'This is an important and substantial contribution to scholarship in Irish journalism studies and Irish political studies.'
Niamh Kirk, Estudios Irlandeses

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Table of Contents

1 Resilient reporting: An introduction
2 Ireland: political, economic, and media systems
3 The media and political change
4 The role of the economy in media coverage
5 Gender bias and Irish election coverage
6 Party leaders and personalisation of politics
7 Commercialism and election coverage
8 Economy and crisis coverage
Conclusion

Appendix 1: An overview of elections in Ireland since 1969
Appendix 2: Data and methodology
References
Index

Resilient Reporting: Media Coverage of Irish

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 6 December 2022
      ISBN-13 9781526119995
      978-1526119995
      ISBN-10 1526119994
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      Business, Finance & Law Media, entertainment, information Politics, Philosophy & Society Comparative politics Elections and referenda / suffrage

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage. The authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the commercial basis of media outlets. The findings - drawn from a machine learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study - will interest academics as well as politicians and policymakers internationally.

      Trade Review

      'This is an important and substantial contribution to scholarship in Irish journalism studies and Irish political studies.'
      Niamh Kirk, Estudios Irlandeses

      -- .

      Table of Contents

      1 Resilient reporting: An introduction
      2 Ireland: political, economic, and media systems
      3 The media and political change
      4 The role of the economy in media coverage
      5 Gender bias and Irish election coverage
      6 Party leaders and personalisation of politics
      7 Commercialism and election coverage
      8 Economy and crisis coverage
      Conclusion

      Appendix 1: An overview of elections in Ireland since 1969
      Appendix 2: Data and methodology
      References
      Index

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