Media coverage of racial disparity

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jukka Savolainen, Wayne State University

Version:  View help for Version V1

Version Title:  View help for Version Title First deposit/April 30

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Project Citation: 

Savolainen, Jukka. Media coverage of racial disparity. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-04-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/E190487V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This dataset contains information about 80 news stories about racial disparities. They were coded to see what racial and ethnic groups are included in these stories. 

Scope of Project

Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage USA
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) observational data

Methodology

Sampling:  View help for Sampling We collected news stories from four types of outlets: 
1. Newspapers: New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today & Wall Street Journal
2. Network TV News: CBS News, ABC News, PBS & NBC News
3. Online news sites: Vox.com, Slate.com, The Daily Wire, and NPR
4. Cable TV news: MSNBC, Fox News & CNN
Data Source:  View help for Data Source Five news reports/articles/stories from each outlet. For example, 5 stories of "racial disparity" from CNN, 5 from NYT, etc. 

Students (who collected and coded the data) were instructed to maximize variety in choosing the articles. The idea was to avoid having too many articles under the same topic, such as Covid or police shootings. it was OK to have two similar ones per news outlet but then skip to a different topic for the others (education, eviction, etc.). 
Collection Mode(s):  View help for Collection Mode(s) web scraping
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation News story (article)

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V1 [2023-04-30]

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