Television News Magazine Format Specifics in the Context of Public and Private Broadcasting Model (On the Basis of «The Fifth Estate» (Canada), «60 Minutes» (USA), «60 Minutes» (Australia))

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Elina S. Nikolskaya

PhD student at the Chair of Media Theory and Economics, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: elina_nik@mail.ru

Section: Foreign Journalism

The article presents the results of a content analysis of three television news magazines («The Fifth Estate» (Canada), «60 minutes» (USA), «60 minutes» (Australia)). The author examines how national features of the country influence the themes and content of the transmission, analyzes how the content depends on the broadcasting model. The research helps to understand particular features of the format’s development in the three Anglo-Saxon countries.

Keywords: TV news magazines, content analysis, «The Fifth Estate», «60 minutes», format
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