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Comparative Study of the Information about the COVID-19 Pandemic and COVID-19 Vaccines on the Covers of United Kingdom, France, Spain and United States’ Main Newspapers

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  • Santiago Tejedor

    (Department of Journalism and Communications Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain)

  • Laura Cervi

    (Department of Journalism and Communications Studies, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain)

  • Fernanda Tusa

    (Social Sciences Faculty, Technical University of Machala, Machala 170524, Ecuador)

  • Mónica Gracia Villar

    (Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Universidad Europea del Atlántico, 39011 Santander, Spain)

Abstract

This study compares the information coverage of the vaccine against the information of the COVID-19 pandemic in eight newspapers (two per country) from the United Kingdom, France, Spain and the United States. The newspapers analyzed are The Times and The Guardian (United Kingdom), Le Monde and Le Figaro (France), El País and El Mundo (Spain), and The New York Times and The Washington Post (United States). On a methodological level, the work uses a descriptive approach of hemerographic analysis. As a result, it is observed—in the case of coverage of the pandemic—that the presence of affected persons and health personnel in the front-page information was negligible, with a predominance of news journalistic genres (brief and newsworthy, especially), evidencing a leading role of political figures and the high degree of politicization of the crisis. In addition, the visual frames in the analyzed newspapers tended to promote humanization through emotional representation. On the other hand, the results of the news coverage of the vaccine showed a predominance of news journalistic genres, wherein supranational entities and pharmaceutical companies starred in the front pages to a greater extent. The study denotes the importance of media literacy among citizens, especially in the face of this type of informational events of global significance.

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  • Santiago Tejedor & Laura Cervi & Fernanda Tusa & Mónica Gracia Villar, 2022. "Comparative Study of the Information about the COVID-19 Pandemic and COVID-19 Vaccines on the Covers of United Kingdom, France, Spain and United States’ Main Newspapers," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-16, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:11:y:2022:i:9:p:412-:d:910088
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    1. Santiago Tejedor & Laura Cervi & Fernanda Tusa & Marta Portales & Margarita Zabotina, 2020. "Information on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Daily Newspapers’ Front Pages: Case Study of Spain and Italy," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(17), pages 1-16, August.
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