Right Topic, Right Source? Source Diversity and Balance in Right-Wing Alternative News Content Across Topics

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dc.contributor.authorHeft, Annett
dc.contributor.authorRamsland, Tim
dc.contributor.authorMayerhöffer, Eva
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-02T15:06:25Z
dc.date.available2024-05-02T15:06:25Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates how the hybrid nature of right-wing alternative news media striving for journalistic legitimacy and partisan credibility plays out on source and topical diversity and balance in article content. The article draws on a sample of 1000 randomly selected articles published by 20 right-wing alternative online news media from six countries (the US, the UK, Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Sweden) from March 2019 to February 2020 (i.e., in “routine” pre-COVID-19 times). The results show that most of the alternative media outlets in the sample cover relatively broad topical spectra. More specifically, US and UK media primarily focus on politics and policy issues, whereas Scandinavian media are more heavily geared toward societal issues and crime coverage. Overall, right-wing alternative news content is characterized by a variety of partisan and non-partisan sources. However, core partisan topic areas, such as politics and mass media, are more likely to include partisan and especially right-wing sources. Often, with respect to these topics, right-wing sources are evaluated positively, and left-wing sources are evaluated negatively. Finally, right-wing and non-right-wing sources often appear in separate articles rather than in direct confrontation.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, [grant numbers 16DII125 and 16DII135] and the Carlsberg Foundation [grant number CF20-0247].
dc.identifier.citationHeft, A., Ramsland, T., & Mayerhöffer, E. (2024). Right Topic, Right Source? Source Diversity and Balance in Right-Wing Alternative News Content Across Topics. Journalism Studies, 25(3), 237–259. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2294362
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2294362
dc.identifier.issn1461-670X
dc.identifier.issn1469-9699
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/650
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAlternative media
dc.subjectright-wing media
dc.subjectpartisanship
dc.subjectsource diversity
dc.subjectbalance
dc.subjectnews content
dc.titleRight Topic, Right Source? Source Diversity and Balance in Right-Wing Alternative News Content Across Topics
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2294362
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local.researchtopicDigitale Märkte und Öffentlichkeiten auf Plattformen
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