Vi har gjort en kvantitativ undersökning som visar hur experter används i tv-nyheterna. Hur presenteras experterna, var kommer de ifrån och vilka representerar de? Vi har även undersökt hur läng tid experten får prata och om programmens användning av experter skiljer sig åt beroende på nyhetens ämne. Utgångspunkten har varit hur mycket information man som tittare får om experterna, utan att veta något om deras egentliga kunskapsinnehav eller person. Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka vilken sorts personer som medierna konstruerar till experter.  Programmen vi har undersökt är Rapport, Aktuellt och Tv4-nyheternas huvudsändningar. Vi valde ut vecka 46 år 2001 och samma vecka 2011. I undersökningen har vi även analyserat eventuella skillnader mellan de olika programmen.  Totalt undersöktes 41 nyhetssändningar vilket genererade 104 experter. Dessa analyserades utifrån 18 olika variabler, exempelvis uppskattad ålder, kön, och presentation.  Vi har i analysen utgått från olika teorier om mediernas konstruktion av experter, expertrollen historiskt sett och journalistikens olika faser. Undersökningens resultat stödjer tidigare forskning som menar att den typiske experten är en man i medelåldern. Männen är överrepresenterade i antal. Då kvinnor förekommer är de oftast yngre än männen. Nyhetsprogrammen i vår undersökning gav för det mesta tittaren information om varför en expert fick agera expert, till exempel genom titlar, information om vem denne representerade och dylikt.

The purpose of this study was to investigate if female and male reporters and interviewees get the same amount of time in the news feature in the Swedish news programs TV4-Nyheterna and SVT 1 Rapport. The aim of this study was also to investigate if there is a breakdown of the reporting lines between male and female reporters, that is, if they are reporting on various topics. In our study we also determined if the two television channels in any way are different when it comes to gender. Our main theory was that men are overrepresented both among reporters and interviewees and that they are dominant in both hard and soft news. We thought that SVT 1Rapport would have a better gender balance than TV4-Nyheterna because SVT 1 has been working on gender issues for a long time. We were using a quantitative content analysis to examine the 19:30 news on SVT 1 Rapport and 22:00 news on TV4-Nyheterna for two weeks in November 2010. We examined domestic and foreign news and determined how much time each sex got. Then we calculated the number of seconds and converted it into percent. The reason for this was because we wanted to compare the two television channels. Our study showed that men are overrepresented in both channels when it comes to reporters and interviewees in the news. Men are also the dominant sex in the provision of hard and soft news. TV4-Nyheterna, however, had a better gender balance than SVT 1 Rapport.

The study has answered the questions to what extent people with disabilities are involved in SVT- and TV4- news reports and how people with disabilities are represented in news reports. The material is based on 140 news items. The study has demonstrated that news reports SVT and TV4 have different grades of misconceptions about disabled people. Disabled people are constantly being reinforced by negative disabling terms, the disability being of central importance for the news broadcast and they still occur in stereotypical depictions. Through the image of disabled people forms the bed-rock on which the attitudes towards, assumptions and expectations of disabled people are based on. They are fundamental to discrimination and exploitation that people with disabilities face on a daily basis, and contributes significantly to their systematic exclusion from mainstream society. Their continued use could contribute to the negative self-image of disabled people and, at the same time, perpetuates discriminatory attitudes and practices among the general public.