News frames are patterns of news construction journalists rely on to present information to
their audiences. While much of the research on news frames has focused on their …

Scholars and journalists have argued that the game frame reporting politics primarily in
strategic terms is predominant in mainstream news reporting of politics. Game-oriented …

The news media's tendency to cover politics as a strategic game has long been a key
concern among many political communication scholars (see, eg, Cappella and Jamieson …

A key concept in research on the media coverage of politics is the game or strategy frame.
Contrasted with coverage of politics as issues, the framing of politics as a strategic game is …

Studies on news values have provided many insights into what gets reported in the media.
In this study we use the concept of news values to examine how journalists perceive the …

The use of strategic game framing is predominant in mainstream news reporting of politics.
Nevertheless, systematic research on the specific antecedents of strategic game framing …

The prevalence of the “game frame” in media coverage of politics is well known. We seek to
broaden our understanding of the media's use of this frame by examining expert …

While scholars have often bemoaned journalists' heavy use of game-framed and “horse-
race” coverage of elections, the contexts most likely to produce game-framed news have not …

Media critics repeatedly refer to the adversarial and trivializing nature of contemporary
political journalism, whereas the role of political public relations in the formation of these …

In this article, the authors discuss the three most important strategic framing choices by
political actors (“substantive emphasis choice,”“oppositional emphasis choice,” and “contest …