What shapes the coverage of immigration. (April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mancini, Paolo; Mazzoni, Marco; Barbieri, Giovanni; Damiani, Marco; Gerli, Matteo
• Is Part Of: Journalism. Volume 22:Number 4(2021)
• Page Start: 845
• Page End: 866
• Publication Date: 2021-04
• Subjects: Comparative research -- content analysis -- framing -- immigration -- international journalism -- media ownership; Journalism -- Periodicals; Journalism -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 070.405
• DOI: 10.1177/1464884919852183
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1464-8849

Abstract

Immigration is a dramatic challenge for Europe: the press has a large influence in determining the opinion climate at this regard. This article investigates how a selection of newspapers in Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy covers the immigration issue from 1 January 2013 to 30 April 2014, before and after the Lampedusa shipwreck on 3 October 2013. Departing from the hypothesis that the media ownership may have a large influence on the content of the news, we investigate 12 different media companies in conjunction with other variables that may affect the coverage of the topic as well. A quantitative content analysis has been first used to derive information from a collection of 2602 articles retrieved through a set of specific keywords from different online database. Afterward, a Multiple Correspondence Analysis has been performed to explore and synthetize the collected information into a small number of 'factors'.