Journal article
Publishing the perished: The visibility of foreign death in Australian quality newspapers
Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.125(1), pp.29-40
2007
Abstract
The issue of media coverage of death has been under discussion by only a few scholars, and there have existed some disagreements as to just how present death is in public discourse in the Western world. This study adds to the literature on death by investigating the Australian media context. Specifically, it examines how journalists at two Australian quality newspapers, The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald, cover death in their foreign news reporting. It finds that journalists express preferences for certain types of death, as well as for certain nationalities. Further, it sheds some light on just how visible death is in the news by arguing that, while present in the written word, the visual representation of death is still highly marginalised.
Details
- Title
- Publishing the perished: The visibility of foreign death in Australian quality newspapers
- Authors
- Folker Hanusch (Author) - University of Queensland
- Publication details
- Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.125(1), pp.29-40
- Publisher
- University of Queensland, Media and Cultural Studies Centre
- Date published
- 2007
- DOI
- 10.1177/1329878X0712500105
- ISSN
- 1329-878X
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449899002621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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