Davidsen, Signe Husted

Thomsen, Caroline Højgaard

Zenker, Amalie Keinicke

This project examines how local media in Denmark contribute to the national media agenda by covering an international war such as the one in Ukraine. The Danish local news media are more limited than the national media as they are only distributed within a certain geographical area in Denmark. Through quantitative data analysis examined from February 24th to May 11th, 2022, and additional qualitative observations the project seeks to examine how local news media cover the war in Ukraine. In addition to this, the project attempts to clarify how economic, geographical, and editorial limitations affect the local news media coverage of the war in Ukraine. The data is collected from 147 articles of seven different weekly local newspapers over a period of 11 weeks. Furthermore, the project explains the terms framing and agenda-setting to help the recipient understand the role of local news media in the coverage of international events. At last, the project discusses the democratic role of the local news media while seeking to maintain loyalty towards the community, and if this challenges their critical point of view

War in Ukraine: International crisis in a local perspective

Abstract

Similar works

Full text

Available Versions

Roskilde Universitet