Bad News Sells: The Demand for News Magazines and the Tone of Their Covers

被引：24
作者：
Arango-Kure, Maria [1 ]
Garz, Marcel [2 ]
Rott, Armin [3 ,4 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Barcelona, Fac Econ & Business, Barcelona, Spain
[2] Hamburg Media Sch, Media Mkt Dept, D-22081 Hamburg, Germany
[3] Univ Hamburg, Inst Media Econ, Hamburg, Germany
[4] Hamburg Media Sch, Media Management Dept, D-22081 Hamburg, Germany
来源：
JOURNAL OF MEDIA ECONOMICS | 2014年 / 27卷 / 04期
关键词：
ECONOMIC-NEWS; MEDIA BIAS; UNEMPLOYMENT EXPECTATIONS; INFORMATION; TELEVISION; NEGATIVITY; NEWSPAPERS; AMERICAN; MARKET; PRESS;
D O I：
10.1080/08997764.2014.963230
中图分类号：
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号：
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要：
News media are often believed to focus on negative events as a means to increase their audience and profits. This study evaluates whether this conjecture applies in the case of the 3 German news magazines Der Spiegel, Stern, and Focus in the period from 1997 to 2009. Based on detailed content analyses of issues with political and economic cover stories, the results indicate significant, positive correlations between explicitly negative cover pages and the magazines' sales, after controlling for a comprehensive set of other success drivers and influences.
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页码：199 / 214
页数：16
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