As part of a larger project on cross-media comparison of news reporting, the present study examined the extent of consonance/differentiation of news items covered by 14 early and late evening newscasts on six(one public and five commercial)television networks and three national newspapers. Based on 322 stories recorded for the five-day period, the percentage of duplicated items as well as correlations from 2×2 contingency tables were calculated for each pair of 17 outlets to show that, relative to television, newspapers had much higher within-media agreement in selection of news stories. As for television newscasts, four public and ten commercial programs were clearly differentiated and for the latter, more differentiation was observed for the programs of different stations than for the programs in different time slots, indicating that news judgments were not much shared by commercial networks.
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