Comparing Journalistic Role Performances Across Thematic Beats: A 37-country study

Mellado, Mellado and Márquez-Ramírez, Mireya and Van Leuven, Sarah and Jackson, Daniel and Mothes, Cornelia and Arcila-Calderón, Carlos and Berthaut, Jérome and Blanchett, Nicole and Boudana, Sandrine and Chen, Katherine and Davydov, Sergey and De Maio, Mariana and Fahmy, Nagwa and Ferrero, Martina and Garcés, Miguel and Hagen, Lutz and Hallin, Daniel C. and Humanes, María Luisa and Himma-Kadakas, Marju and Keel, Guido and Kozman, Claudia and Krstić, Aleksandra and Lecheler, Sophie and Lee, Misook and I-Hsuan Lin, Christi and Mazzoni, Marco and McGuinness, Kieran and McIntyre, Karen and Mick, Jacques and Navarro, Cristina and Olivera, Dasniel and Pizarro, Marcela and Silke, Henry and Skjerdal, Terje and Stępińska, Agnieszka and Szabó, Gabriella and Viveros Aguilar, Diana (2023) Comparing Journalistic Role Performances Across Thematic Beats: A 37-country study. JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION QUARTERLY, online. ISSN 1077-6990 (print); 2161-430X (online)

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Abstract

Studies suggest that, at the routine level, news beats function as unique “micro-cultures.” Exploring this “particularist” approach in news content, we compare how the interventionist, watchdog, loyal, service, infotainment, and civic roles materialize across 11 thematic news beats and analyze the moderating effect of platforms, ownership, and levels of political freedom on journalistic role performance in hard and soft news. Based on the second wave of the Journalistic Role Performance (JRP) project, this article reports the findings of a content analysis of 148,474 news items from 37 countries. Our results reveal the transversality of interventionism, the strong associations of some topics and roles, and the limited reach of news beat particularism in the face of moderating variables.

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