Australian Election Campaign Television News Coverage 2007 Ch 10 Brisbane 6 pm weighted days.

The 2007 election campaign TV news coverage files extend previous sets of TV news coverage data gathered by David Denemark (1998) and by David Denemark, Clive Bean ((Queensland Univ of Technology) and Ian Ward (Univ of Queensland), 2001). The aim of the project was to explore television news coverage of Australian election campaigns and measured the amount of television coverage of political parties, leaders and election issues. National bulletins were collected and local news in Brisbane and Perth during the 2007 federal election campaign. This study was also conducted in 1998 and 2001. This study measures coverage of 12 election issues and 10 other issues as defined in the Australian Election Study, 2007 (ADA No. 1120). This file refers to the Channel 10 Brisbane News coverage at 6 pm. Variables include time in seconds given to political parties and political leaders. Also measured was time given to election issues including: education, environment, health, industrial relations and taxation. Prominence of the news bulletin in the news (x10 for lead story; 9 for second story in the bulletin; 8 for third story…1 for 10th or lower story) was used to generate "weighted seconds." The combined weighted seconds on any given leader/party/issue for a given day in the campaign generated "weighted days" measures. All news sessions for during the campaign for the targeted channels were captured. There were NO missing bulletins.

2007年选举竞选电视新闻报道数据集拓展了此前由David Denemark（1998年）以及David Denemark、克莱夫·比恩（昆士兰科技大学）与伊恩·沃德（昆士兰大学）于2001年收集的多组电视新闻报道数据。本项目旨在探究澳大利亚选举竞选的电视新闻报道情况，量化统计各政党、政治领袖及选举议题的电视报道时长。本次数据采集覆盖2007年联邦选举竞选期间的全国新闻联播，以及布里斯班与珀斯的本地新闻节目。该研究曾分别于1998年与2001年开展。本研究参照2007年《澳大利亚选举研究》（ADA No.1120）中的分类标准，统计了12项选举议题与10项非选举议题的报道情况。本数据集文件对应10频道布里斯班晚间6点档新闻的报道内容。数据集变量包含各政党、政治领袖的报道时长（单位：秒），以及教育、环境、医疗、劳资关系与税收等选举议题的报道时长。新闻条目在联播中的优先级权重规则为：头条新闻记为10倍权重，第二条记为9倍，第三条记为8倍……以此类推，第十条及以后条目记为1倍权重；基于该规则计算得到“加权秒数”指标。针对竞选周期内单日的特定政治领袖、政党或议题，将其加权秒数累加后得到“加权天数”指标。本次采集覆盖目标频道在竞选周期内的全部新闻时段，无任何新闻联播缺失情况。