Diversity in the Norwegian News Media Landscape: A Hybrid Model for Evaluating Media Policy, 2017

The primary aim of this project was to eavluate the effect of media regulation on the diversity in the Norwegian news media landscape. The regulations evaluated include ownership restrictions, press support for newspapers, and protection of public broadcasting. Around 830,000 news articles from 189 news media from all over the country was collected in the period 2015-2017, including paper, web and broadcasting. The data was analyzed using hybrid methodology, including quantitative content analysis, Latent Dirichlet allocation and Named Entity Chunking. The project adapted existing methods for processing and analyzing big data with digital media content. The analyzes showed that the Norwegian media contribute to diversity in one way or another. The results showed that public broadcasting contributes to diversity in particular through its focus on regional news, that local newspapers contribute in particular through a focus on local conditions and by improving the gender balance, that national media contribute to diversity through their breadth and foreign news coverage, and that niche newspapers contribute through their thematic focus. In addition, media with media support, including NRK, is better at using Nynorsk. Ownership proved to have little or no effect on the diversity in the news media landscape, primarily explained by the composition of newspapers under different groups of companies.

NSD can in agreement with the Principal Investigator make data from "Diversity in the Norwegian News Media Landscape: A Hybrid Model for Evaluating Media Policy, 2017" available when ordered. After 31.12.2020 data are made available for research and students when ordered. The dataset includes personal data. To order data there must be a legal basis for processing the personal data according to the General Data Protection Regulation. This means that the data controller for projects that will be using data from NSD must ensure and demonstrate that they have legal basis for processing personal data according to the General Data Protection Regulation.

本项目的核心目标是评估媒体监管对挪威新闻媒体格局多样性的影响。所评估的监管措施包括所有权限制、对报纸的新闻资助以及公共广播保护。2015-2017年间，收集了来自全国189家新闻媒体的约83万篇新闻文章，涵盖纸质、网络及广播媒体。研究采用混合方法学对数据进行分析，包括定量内容分析、Latent Dirichlet分配（Latent Dirichlet Allocation）及命名实体分块（Named Entity Chunking）。本项目对现有方法进行了适配，用于处理和分析数字媒体内容相关的大数据。分析结果表明，挪威媒体以各种方式促进了多样性。结果显示，公共广播尤其通过聚焦区域新闻促进多样性；地方报纸则通过关注本地情况及改善性别平衡发挥作用；全国性媒体凭借其内容广度和国际新闻报道助力多样性；而小众报纸则通过主题聚焦做出贡献。此外，获得媒体资助的机构（包括挪威广播公司NRK）更善于使用新挪威语（Nynorsk）。所有权对新闻媒体格局的多样性几乎没有影响，这主要可通过不同企业集团旗下报纸的构成来解释。

NSD可在与首席研究员达成一致后，根据申请提供《2017年挪威新闻媒体格局多样性：媒体政策评估的混合模型》数据集。2020年12月31日后，该数据可应申请向研究人员及学生开放。数据集包含个人数据。根据《通用数据保护条例》（General Data Protection Regulation），申请数据时必须具备处理个人数据的法律依据。这意味着，使用NSD数据的项目的数据控制者必须确保并证明其拥有符合《通用数据保护条例》（General Data Protection Regulation）的个人数据处理法律依据。