Water News Media Analysis

This dataset contains coded information from an analysis of articles about water gathered from two newspapers in Utah. Articles from the Salt Lake Tribune were assessed from 2012 through 2015 and articles from the Logan Herald Journal were assessed from 2012 through 2016). Articles were gathered by searching on line newspaper databases for articles using the keyword "water". After being sorted for relevance, articles with primary focus on water were coded for content and journalistic parameters using an online survey template developed within Qualtrics software. Intercoder reliability was established among the coding team.

本数据集收录了从犹他州两家报纸中收集的关于水资源的文章分析编码信息。其中，《盐湖城论坛报》的文章评估时间跨度为2012年至2015年，《洛根先驱报》的文章评估时间跨度为2012年至2016年。通过在线报纸数据库使用关键词“水”进行搜索，收集了相关文章。经过相关性排序后，采用Qualtrics软件内开发的在线调查模板，对聚焦于水资源主题的文章进行了内容与新闻参数的编码。编码团队间的信度得到了验证。