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Dunaway, Johanna. "What Makes the News? The Organizational Determinants of the News Agenda" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mar 17, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p97462_index.html>

Dunaway, J. , 2006-03-17 "What Makes the News? The Organizational Determinants of the News Agenda" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p97462_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Mass media is the major source of political information for most citizens (Graber 2002). As such, decisions made by the media define the scope of what we know about the political world. What we know about the political world influences the nature and degree of our political participation (Page and Shapiro 1992). Therefore, it is important to understand how the media decides what makes the news. Like any institution in a political context, the media is subject to its own internal pressures and organizational dictates. Institutional factors operate in media organizations as they do in any organization, with norms, rules and incentives shaping decisions and behaviors. This paper argues that reporting decisions, and ultimately, the news agenda, are significantly influenced by the institutional designs and features of the reporting news organizations, and that this influence has implications for substance we receive in political news coverage. This work addresses the following research question: In what ways does the institutional structure of media outlets affect their coverage of local political issues? Using television news coverage of two major competitive statewide races in 2004 and organizational profiles of the media outlets in each state, I examine the election coverage provided by multiple television media outlets as a function of their internal organizational characteristics and market settings.

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