Med hjälp av nyhetsfaktorer, kommersiella faktorer och styrfält, undersöker den här kvantitativa innehållsanalysen vad som kännetecknar internationell krisrapportering i en kommersialiserad och digitaliserad medievärld. Artiklar, notiser och reportage om den kraftiga explosionen i Beirut 2020 i morgontidningarna Dagens Nyheter och Svenska Dagbladet samt kvällstidningarna Aftonbladet och Expressen undersöktes, i syfte att öka kunskapen om nyhetsurval, den mediala bilden av krisen och krisrapportering i stort. Studien fann att kulturell närhet till publiken inte är en lika viktig faktor vid krisrapportering nu som tidigare studier har visat på. Intressanta nyheter och berättartekniker som gör viktiga nyheter med tilltalande, har visat sig vara betydelsefulla för samtliga tidningar och inte varit utmärkande för enbart kvällstidningarna, som tidigare forskning pekat på. Ett fåtal skillnader morgon- och kvällstidningarna emellan gick att uttyda, som att morgonpressen hade mer inslag av konflikter i sin rapportering och kvällspressen fokuserade mer på konkreta händelser. Det fanns även skillnader mellan mediekoncernerna och likheter mellan tidningarna inom samma koncern. Schibstedägda Svenska Dagbladet och Aftonbladet hade mycket mer TT-material och något högre elitcentrering i sin rapportering än Bonnierägda Dagens Nyheter och Expressen, som hade högre inslag av human-interest story. Det fenomenet kan antingen vara en slump eller en effekt av kommersialiseringen och medielogiken.

Only a fraction of events make it into Swedish news media. Previous theories on news values and selection agree on the news factors that enhance news value but new digital formats might be putting the relevance for these news values up for discussion. Younger generations primarily consume news through social media and curate their own personalized news feeds and if journalists don’t adjust their news production after this new climate we might look into democratic consequences for society in general and young people in particular. This study explores the relevance of traditional news factors for news on TikTok. Based on a summary of previous research on news value, ten news factors are proposed for studying news in new digital formats. These ten factors are the main part of the theoretical framework of this study. The study aims to investigate the news supply on TikTok and examine the correlation between news factors and news dissemination. 171 TikTok videos from five Swedish nationwide news channels with TikTok accounts were randomly selected. These videos were coded based on views, shares, and the ten news factors. Regression analysis and a correlation matrix were conducted. The study finds that news factors are present on TikTok, but few correlations exist between these factors and dissemination. Notably, views correlate with geographical proximity and surprising elements. This questions the relevance of traditional news values for user interest on TikTok and questions the role of journalists in the future. Future research could explore the news supply on TikTok based on user feeds instead of traditional news values, given that young people are influenced by their personalized feeds.

This study has examined how two local media companies use Facebook in their operation. The two companies surveyed are P4 Kalmar Sweden Radio and the Barometer OT in Kalmar. Two sub-studies were conducted, a qualitative interview-study with responsible social media editors as well as a quantitative content analysis of Facebook publications over a month's time. The results show that Facebook is seen as a very important platform for the media companies to reach out with their journalism, while Facebook's algorithms affect the news rating and compels companies to constantly re-evaluate the content. The result also shows that traditional news with local connection constitutes the majority of Facebook publications and that it is this category that mainly renders the most response from the audience.