Flykten från landsbygden – en kvantitativ innehållsanalys av mångfalden i det lokala nyhetsmaterialet i Arbetarbladet och Gefle Dagblad

Abstract

Title: A Rural Pluralism Abandoned – A quantitative analysis of the diversity in the local news content in Arbetarbladet and Gefle Dagblad Authors: Kalle Berg, Viktor Johansson och Francisco Ramirez Franzén. Subject: Undergraduate research paper in journalism studies, Dept. of journalism, media and communication (JMG) Gothenburg University Term: Autumn 2013 Supervisor: Jonas Ohlsson, JMG, Gothenburg University. Pages: 47 Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to examine how diversity in the news content changes when two competitive newspapers, in this case Gefle Dagblad and Arbetarbladet, is brought in to the same media company. Method: Quantitative content analysis. Procedure: 4 930 articles from a study period of three weeks during the years of 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2012 has been coded into different variables and analysed from the perspective of diversity and media ownership concentration. Results: The main result is that since the two newspapers were incorporated in to the same media company there has been a change in the diversity of the news content. The aspect of which geographical regions, covered by the liberal newspaper Gefle Dagblad, show a tendency that Gefle Dagblad concentrate their news coverage to the main region, the municipal of Gävle.