Just over 1 in 10 headlines, in the decade studied by the project team, had to do with protest. The headlines thus provided useful signals as to which manifestations to analyse more closely. They were, of course, only one consideration guiding the study. Theoretical as well as empirical considerations are set …
Analysis of individual news items was an important (and ongoing) dimension of Screening Protest research. News items were selected for closer analysis for different reasons. In keeping with other results reported on this website (and in our publications), protest items for the years 2011, 2015, 2017 and 2018 were selected …
This table shows the number of analysed headlines that were about protest or which contained a reference to protest. To be coded as a protest headline, a headline had to make reference to any type of manifestation of discontent (such as a mass demonstration on the streets of a capital, a …
No fewer than 28 thousand headlines were coded during the funded period of the project. These proved easy to code quickly and with a high degree of inter-coder reliability, while at the same time providing good insights into the news values of the different outlets and one indicator of the …
This table shows the number of broadcasts analysed in the course of the project’s funded period. (Coding has continued beyond this, into 2019 and 2020, and will continue up to 2022.) The divergence in figures between years is explained by the fact that different sampling methods were employed for practical …
As for 2011 the sample for 2015 included all news items contained in the main evening news broadcast each Monday on AJE, BBCW, CNNI and RT, a total of 2620 news items. In this period, the AJE sample contains a larger number of news items than the other channel due …
The project started not at the beginning, but in the middle: with 2011. Proclaimed ‘the year of the protester’ by Time magazine, we took it as a temporal ground zero. The 2011 sample was extensive. As well as headlines, we coded 2816 individual news items and established that more than …
AJE displays the most extensive map of the world when it comes to the protests of 2017. This translates into the colouring of most spots on the map, especially in paler shades, which suggests that AJE covers a high number of countries rather than focusing on a few. On the …
In line with results for other years (2011, 2014, etc), RT devotes a lot of its attention to Western countries when it comes to protest. As a result, six out of the first ten countries that feature in protest headlines the most frequently (plus ‘Global’) belong to the West, with …
With 19 countries featuring in its protest headlines, CNNI’s world of protest is the smallest when compared to the other three channels in the sample. Worth noting here is the big gap between the first place, the USA, and the second one, Venezuela. Basically, one in three headlines related to …
