TY - JOUR
T1 - A gatekeeper among gatekeepers
T2 - news agency influence in print and online newspapers in the Netherlands
AU - Welbers, Kasper
AU - van Atteveldt, Wouter
AU - Kleinnijenhuis, Jan
AU - Ruigrok, Nel
PY - 2018/2/17
Y1 - 2018/2/17
N2 - This paper investigates the influence of news agency Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP) on the coverage and diversity of political news in Dutch national newspapers. Using computational text analysis, we analyzed the influence on print newspapers across three years (1996, 2008, and 2013) and compared influence on print and online newspapers in 2013. Results indicate that the influence of ANP on print newspapers only increased slightly. Online newspapers, however, depend heavily on ANP and are highly similar as a result of such dependence. We draw conclusions relating to the gatekeeping role of news agencies in the digital age in general, and in the context of the Netherlands in particular. Additionally, we demonstrate that techniques from the field of information retrieval can be used to perform these analyses on a large scale. Our scripts and instructions are published open-source to stimulate the use of these techniques in communication studies.
AB - This paper investigates the influence of news agency Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP) on the coverage and diversity of political news in Dutch national newspapers. Using computational text analysis, we analyzed the influence on print newspapers across three years (1996, 2008, and 2013) and compared influence on print and online newspapers in 2013. Results indicate that the influence of ANP on print newspapers only increased slightly. Online newspapers, however, depend heavily on ANP and are highly similar as a result of such dependence. We draw conclusions relating to the gatekeeping role of news agencies in the digital age in general, and in the context of the Netherlands in particular. Additionally, we demonstrate that techniques from the field of information retrieval can be used to perform these analyses on a large scale. Our scripts and instructions are published open-source to stimulate the use of these techniques in communication studies.
KW - content analysis
KW - gatekeeping
KW - journalism
KW - media diversity
KW - news agencies
KW - newspapers
KW - online media
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U2 - 10.1080/1461670X.2016.1190663
DO - 10.1080/1461670X.2016.1190663
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84976557599
SN - 1461-670X
VL - 19
SP - 315
EP - 333
JO - Journalism Studies
JF - Journalism Studies
IS - 3
ER -
