European parliamentary elections are the defining event for political participation in the
European Union (EU). Little, however, is known about how recent European parliamentary …

This article analyses the news coverage of the 2004 European parliamentary elections in all
25 member states of the European Union (EU). It provides a unique pan-European overview …

In this article we analyse the news coverage of the 2009 EP elections in all 27 EU member
states (N= 52,009). We propose that the extent to which these second-order elections are …

Although several studies have investigated the television coverage of European election
campaigns (Blumler, 1983; Leroy & Siune, 1994; Reiser, 1994), two aspects of that type of …

News about the E uropean U nion (EU) looks different in different countries at different points
in time. This study investigates explanations for cross‐national and over‐time variation in …

Previous research has characterized European news coverage as mainly domestic in focus,
hampering the emergence of a European public sphere. This study analyses the European …

The form and content of election news coverage in Western democracies is infl uenced by
four structural macro-level factors: the strength of political parties, the government regulation …

This chapter explores how the media in all 27 European Union (EU) member states covered
the European Parliament (EP) elections. The chapter considers frame that relate to the …

Previous research tells us little about the ways in which the European Union is portrayed on
main evening television news. We therefore content analyzed 11,722 stories broadcast in …

This study is a cross-national comparative content analysis of the coverage of European
Union politics in British, Danish, Dutch, French, and German television news. The study …