Paul Jones

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine whether exposure to public versus commercial news influences the knowledge citizens possess about current affairs, both domestically and internationally, and test, using propensity score analysis, whether there is variation across public service broadcasters in this regard.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative study of news media's role in serving the functions associated with democratic citizenship, the authors identify differences between countries in the sources quoted in the news, establish whether there are consistent differences across countries between types of media in their sourcing patterns, and trace any emergent consistent patterns of variation between different types of organization across different countries.

TL;DR: This article investigated the volume of foreign news provided by public service and commercial TV channels in countries with different media systems and how this corresponds to the public's interest in and knowledge of foreign affairs, and found that the foreign news offered by the main TV channels is quite limited in scope, and mainly driven by a combination of national interest and geographic proximity.

TL;DR: Data show that online news consumption is systematically and consistently related to perceived polarization, but not to attitude polarization, understood as individual attitude extremity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a large international research project involving 11 countries in four continents (Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia) is focused on news consumption, with the aim of identifying differences in news consumption in different countries with different media cultures and, consequently, different media behaviour, as well as to reveal differences in media media uses between older and younger generations.