News Media and the Öresund Region. A Case of Horizontal Europeanisation?

Jesper Falkheimer, Bloch-Örsten Mark, Kaemsgaard Ebenholt Mads, Veselinka Möllerström

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Abstract

This article presents a first attempt to investigate the news content and news routines of Danish and Swedish news media covering the Öresund region. From a theoretical perspective, the Öresund region can be considered a possible best-case example of what is categorised as horizontal Europeanisation, in other words, of the potential for increased communication linkages in news media content among European Union (EU) member states. We investigate this topic by analysing news content published by selected media outlets from 2002 to 2012 and by interviewing Danish and Swedish journalists who cover the region. We find that most news content does not mention the Öresund region, and that one reason for this lack might be that neither Danish nor Swedish reporters consider the region to be newsworthy.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-15
Number of pages15
JournalNordicom Review
Volume38
Issue number1
Early online date2016 Dec 20
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017 Jun

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Communication Studies

Free keywords

  • news media
  • horizontal Europeanisation
  • Öresund
  • Sweden
  • Denmark
  • journalism

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