Carsten Reinemann

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications, focusing on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media concentration and declining diversity of news.

TL;DR: A conceptual analysis of the concept of hard and soft news is offered based on studies in English and other languages and it is proposed to distinguish thematic, focus and style features as basic dimensions that make up harder and softer types of news.

TL;DR: The introduction to a special International Journal of Press/Politics (IJPP) issue on populism articulate and define populism as a communication phenomenon and offers an overview of populist political communication research and its current foci.

TL;DR: In an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties, and movements have gained prominence and influence, either by electoral successes on their own or by influencing other political parties and the national political discourse as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Metacommunication as mentioned in this paper is defined as the news media's self-referential reflections on the nature of the interplay between political public relations and political journalism, which can be seen as a prime example of metadiscursive process news.