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Elite Sources, Context, and News Topics

How Two Korean Newspapers Covered a Public Health Crisis

Robert A. Logan

Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

Jaeyung Park

Korea Media Research Center

Jae-Hwa Shin

University of Southern Mississippi

A content analysis of the coverage of a public health crisis in Korea from September 1999 to December 2000 explored six hypotheses about news reporting and topic selection mostly derived from qualitatively based literature. The findings suggest that two Korean daily newspapers (Chosun Ilbo andHankyoreh) emphasized governmental officials and physicians as news sources, underemphasized other news sources, and limited in-depth reporting. The study’s findings appear to support prior assertions in the international literature that critique news media performance. However,Chosun Ilbo andHankyoreh used a range of sources and provided some multidimensional news coverage during the public health crisis. While both newspapers depended on governmental officials and physicians as news sources and tended to provide less in-depth coverage, the overall findings do not reveal a pattern of journalistic neglect.

Key Words: Korean press • content analysis • source and topic selection • health policy coverage

Science Communication, Vol. 25, No. 4, 364-398 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1075547004265580
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