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Go negative to be on the safe side! A 10-country investigation of the link between journalists’ negative framing and political actors’ strategic communication

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Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism

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Abstract

Journalism, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 1344-1363, May 2026.
This paper examines which types of political communication strategies are more likely to be negatively framed by journalists. For political actors, the risk of negative framing is significant: while their statements may reach readers, journalists’ ...