In recent decades, disruptive media events, such as major terrorist attacks, have gained increasing relevance in news coverage around the world. Despite the growing importance of such globally broadcast media events, little research to date has examined cross-national variation in event coverage or the predictors of this variation. This study examines news coverage about the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States across 51 countries to analyze whether the topical focus and emotional tone of news coverage about the attacks varied according to a country’s proximity to the United States and the dominant role perceptions of its journalistic culture. We show that these macro-level predictors are associated in varying degrees with the country-level topical focus and emotional tone of reporting over the 30 days following this salient event. Moreover, our analysis also suggests that temporal developments may have uniformly structured much of this worldwide coverage.

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共同纽带和新闻文化如何影响对破坏性媒体事件的全球新闻报道：9/11 恐怖袭击案例


近几十年来，重大恐怖袭击等破坏性媒体事件在世界各地的新闻报道中越来越重要。尽管此类全球广播媒体事件的重要性日益增加，但迄今为止，很少有研究研究事件报道的跨国差异或这种变化的预测因子。本研究考察了 51 个国家/地区关于美国 9/11 恐怖袭击的新闻报道，以分析有关袭击的新闻报道的主题焦点和情感基调是否根据一个国家与美国的距离和对其新闻文化的主导角色的看法而变化。我们表明，这些宏观层面的预测因素在不同程度上与这一重要事件发生后 30 天内国家层面的话题焦点和报道的情感基调相关。此外，我们的分析还表明，时间发展可能统一构建了这种全球覆盖范围的大部分内容。