Leading medium

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In journalism and media studies, individual media are designated as leading media , which have a pronounced "main function in the constitution of social communication and the public ". The term is used for individual media offers that exert a particularly strong influence on public opinion and on other mass media .

Historical examples

Press

Germany

In 1999, the media scientist Jürgen Wilke published an investigation into which media in the printed press are frequently consulted by journalists in their research . Wilke determined the most frequently used press titles from a survey carried out among German journalists in 1993. According to this, between a third and two thirds of all journalists used (in descending order of frequency of mention):

In a study in summer 2005, German journalists were asked which media they regularly use. A good third of those surveyed said, by a large margin, that they regularly used the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Spiegel . The five leading press products are:

These data from the study by communications scientist Siegfried Weischenberg are based on a survey of 1533 representative selected journalists.

The International Herald Tribune took up this in 2011 and used the leading medium as Germanism when it asked about the leading medium in German . She considered five newspapers and magazines for this position - each in conjunction with the associated websites:

The reader analysis of decision makers in business and administration has published regular surveys on the use of selected media every two to three years since 1975 and annually since 2010.

International (selection)

Country newspaper Place of publication founding year language Swell)
AustraliaAustralia Australia The Age Melbourne 1854 English
BelgiumBelgium Belgium De Standaard Brussels 1918 Dutch
BelgiumBelgium Belgium Le Soir Brussels 1887 French
GermanyGermany Germany The mirror Hamburg 1947 German
GermanyGermany Germany Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt am Main 1949 German
GermanyGermany Germany Southgerman newspaper Munich 1945 German
GermanyGermany Germany The time Hamburg 1946 German
FranceFrance France Le Monde Paris 1944 French
FranceFrance France Le Figaro Paris 1826 French
Hong KongHong Kong Hong Kong South China Morning Post Hong Kong 1903 English
IndiaIndia India The Times of India New Delhi 1838 English
IrelandIreland Ireland The Irish Times Dublin 1859 English
ItalyItaly Italy Corriere della Sera Milan 1876 Italian
ItalyItaly Italy La Repubblica Rome 1976 Italian
ItalyItaly Italy Il Sole 24 Ore Milan 1865 Italian
IsraelIsrael Israel Haaretz Tel Aviv 1919 Hebrew
JapanJapan Japan Asahi Shimbun Tokyo 1879 Japanese
CanadaCanada Canada The Globe and Mail Toronto 1844 English
CanadaCanada Canada La press Montréal 1889 French
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands NRC Handelsblad Rotterdam 1870 Dutch
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland The New Zurich Times Zurich 1780 German
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland Le Temps Lausanne 1998 French
SpainSpain Spain El País Madrid 1976 Spanish
TurkeyTurkey Turkey Hürriyet Istanbul 1948 Turkish
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom The Times London 1785 English
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom The Daily Telegraph London 1855 English
United StatesUnited States United States The New York Times New York City 1851 English
United StatesUnited States United States The Washington Post Washington, DC 1877 English
United StatesUnited States United States The Wall Street Journal New York City 1889 English

Criticism and loss of trust

The leading media (in Germany) found themselves exposed to increased criticism in the mid-2010s, with their credibility, independence and journalistic ethics in particular being called into question. In the Wulff affair , for example, prejudice and disproportionality (“scandalization excess”) were criticized. Overall, there was a significant loss of trust in the leading media, with the result that their influence decreased and media consumers made use of other sources.

Sebastian Turner came to a different assessment , according to which the influence of the leading media has increased significantly since the mid-1990s and they are also the strongest source in social media. An analysis of seven selected print media showed that their reach remained almost constant during this period (from 14.7% to 14.0%), but increased significantly overall by 23.9% (2015).

See also

literature

  • Jürgen Wilke : Leading media and target group organs. In: Jürgen Wilke (ed.): Media history of the Federal Republic of Germany . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 1999, pp. 302–329.
  • Uwe Krüger : Power of opinion. The influence of elites on leading media and alpha journalists - a critical network analysis . Halem Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86962-070-1 .

Web links

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