The Observable Effects of News Framing and Agenda-setting on Coverage Regarding the 2008 Financial Crisis
Open Access
Author:
Zortman, Alexandra Paige
Area of Honors:
Journalism
Degree:
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type:
Thesis
Thesis Supervisors:
Robert Dwayne Richards, Thesis Supervisor Robert Dwayne Richards, Thesis Honors Advisor Martin Halstuk, Faculty Reader
Keywords:
framing agenda-setting newspapers
Abstract:
This thesis will first provide a theoretical description of the existing media effects theories of framing and agenda-setting, specifically geared toward newspaper publications. This thesis will then examine the coverage by two mainstream news publications renowned for business journalism, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, surrounding a number of events that triggered mass coverage during the financial crisis, and determine if and how framing and agenda-setting played a role in the coverage of those events. This thesis will also delve deeper to examine, if framing is found in the coverage, what policy objectives were being advanced through this method of coverage.
