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Theory Consolidation in the Study of Journalism

A Comparative Analysis of the News Coverage of the HIV/AIDS Issue in Four Countries

Nelson Traquina

New University of Lisbonntraquina{at}yahoo.com

This article attempts to contribute to a better theoretical understanding of news. Based on an examination of the vast body of literature known as the study of journalism, three points of consensus are identified and tested through a comparative case study analysis of the news coverage of an issue, VIH/AIDS, in four different countries (the United States, Portugal, Spain and Brazil) during a period of three months (October–December, 1993). The data show that news is ‘event-oriented’, that official sources dominate news, and that proximity is a basic news value of the members of this ‘interpretive community’ who are today called journalists.

Key Words: comparative journalism • interpretive community • news theory • news values • sociology of journalism

Journalism, Vol. 5, No. 1, 97-116 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1464884904039557
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