Specialty matters. Analysis of health journalists' coverage about vaccines

Catalán Matamoros, Daniel Jesús; Peñafiel Saiz, Carmen

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Specialty matters. Analysis of health journalists' coverage about vaccines

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Comunicación	es
dc.contributor.author	Catalán Matamoros, Daniel Jesús
dc.contributor.author	Peñafiel Saiz, Carmen
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-25T10:12:59Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-25T10:12:59Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	This study examines specific professional patterns among health journalists, and assesses whether these differ from those among generalists in the case of vaccines. 131 articles were analysed from national newspapers in Spain, of which 52% (n=68) were written by specialised health journalists. Content analysis was undertaken to examine the differences in terms of journalistic genre, frames, tone, sources and length of the article. Results revealed key journalistic patterns and confirmed that health journalists perform significantly differently than other authors in terms of journalistic genre, tone, sources and length of the article. Health journalists wrote more features and less opinion articles, from a more neutral perspective, using a wider number of scientific sources, especially those from professional associations and scientific journals. These findings provide insights into the process of health journalism, and identify potential aspects to further develop the profession for the broad dissemination of health news to the public.	en
dc.format.extent	10	es
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Profesional de la Información. V. 28, n. 2 (2019)	es
dc.identifier.doi	10.3145/epi.2019.mar.01
dc.identifier.issn	1386-6710
dc.identifier.publicationissue	2	es
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Profesional de la Informacion	es
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	28	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/32225
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000025371
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	EPI El Profesional de la Información	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	http://www.elprofesionaldelainformacion.com	es
dc.rights	Atribución 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Ciencias de la Información	es
dc.subject.other	Content analysis	en
dc.subject.other	Health journalism	en
dc.subject.other	Health journalists	en
dc.subject.other	Health news journalists	en
dc.subject.other	Media	en
dc.subject.other	Newspapers	en
dc.subject.other	Public Health	en
dc.subject.other	Science	es
dc.subject.other	Sources	es
dc.subject.other	Specialty	es
dc.subject.other	Vaccines	es
dc.title	Specialty matters. Analysis of health journalists' coverage about vaccines	en
dc.type	research article	*
dc.type.hasVersion	VoR	*
dspace.entity.type	Publication