Resilient reporting: Media coverage of Irish elections since 1969

by Michael Breen (Author), Michael Courtney (Author), Iain Mcmenamin (Author), Eoin O'Malley (Author), Kevin Rafter (Author)

This book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage. The authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the commercial basis of media outlets. The findings - drawn from a machine learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study - will interest academics as well as politicians and policymakers internationally

About the Author
The authors are based at Dublin City University, Ireland.
Michael Breen is an Associate Professor at the School of Law and Government
Michael Courtney is a Statistician at the Irish Central Statistics Office
Iain McMenamin is Professor of Comparative Politics and Head of the School of Law and Government
Eoin O’Malley is an Associate Professor at the School of Law and Government
Kevin Rafter is Professor of Political Communication and Head of the School of Communications