Trends in the international news coverage on Latin America in Germany in the 21st century

Abstract This study aims at analysing the main developments in foreign reporting of Latin America by the German press. The paper provides a content analysis of 3.831 articles published in quality German publications (SZNenhum, FAZ, Der Spiegel, and tazNenhum) between 2000 and 2014. The most common news factors related to the continent are found to be “magnitude,” “power status,” “economic proximity”, and “personification.” Additionally, we identified a decrease in hard news over the years (6 pp within Politics and 8 pp amidst Economy). Despite depoliticisation, a tendency towards tabloidisation was not confirmed since factors such as personification and crisis remained constant.

摘要 本研究旨在剖析德国媒体对拉丁美洲海外报道的主要发展脉络。本文对2000年至2014年间德国优质出版物（SZNenhum、FAZ、《明镜周刊》Der Spiegel、tazNenhum）刊发的3831篇文章开展内容分析。研究识别出与该大洲相关的最常见新闻要素依次为「事件量级」「权力地位」「经济关联性」与「拟人化处理」。此外，研究团队发现硬新闻占比随时间推移有所下滑：政治板块占比下降6个百分点，经济板块占比下降8个百分点。尽管报道呈现去政治化倾向，但由于拟人化叙事与危机报道等核心要素占比始终保持稳定，因此并未出现小报化趋势。