Online news about Israel and Palestine: A cross-national comparison of prominence and trends

Elad Segev, Menahem Blondheim

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Abstract

This article measures the relative attention given to Israel and Palestine in 37 leading news sites in 10 languages over two years. Findings clearly show that the Palestinian entities and Israel are the world’s most prominent polities after the United States in top news stories of international online coverage. Most news attention is given by Middle Eastern news sites, and only then by European and American news sites. During periods that attention to Israel decreases, attention to China increases. After presenting these rather surprising findings, the study considers a number of directions for interpreting them.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)386-398
Number of pages13
JournalDigital Journalism
Volume1
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

Keywords

  • Cross-national comparison
  • Israel
  • Network analysis
  • Newsworthiness
  • Online news
  • Palestine

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