ArticleAuthors: Di Zhang; Pamela J. Shoemaker; Xiuli Wang (2013)
This study adds to research on terrorism and international news by combining real-world information about terrorist events with perceptions about the deviance and social significance of events and how these impact the events’ coverage prominence. The news values of the USA and China are compared by selecting a set of these highly newsworthy events from the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) for study. The NCTC provided archival data about 137 international terrorism events covered in the US and Chinese newspapers (85 of 137 events covered in Chinese media) and an analysis of newspaper coverage of the events (three newspapers in each country) provided perceptions of the events’ de...