Browsing Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon by Author "Allern, Sigurd"

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  • Development trends and challenges in Nordic political journalism 
    Allern, Sigurd; Blach-Ørsten, Mark; Kantola, Anu; Pollack, Ester (Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    The objective of this chapter is to describe and discuss some important political journalism development trends in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The term political journalism traditionally refers to news, commentaries, ...
  • Journalism as a public good: A Scandinavian perspective 
    Allern, Sigurd; Ester, Pollack (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    The democratic importance of journalism is related to public good aspects of media products, as well as news media’s positive externalities. Journalism of high quality helps ensure we are all better informed and thus ...
  • Political Scandals as a Democratic Challenge: From Important Revelations to Provocations, Trivialities, and Neglect. Introduction 
    Allern, Sigurd; Christian, von Sikorski (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    This Introduction provides the conceptual and theoretical context for a Special Section on political scandals in the International Journal of Communication. Mediated political scandals are a worldwide phenomenon and are ...
  • The Role of Think Tanks in the Swedish Political Landscape 
    Allern, Sigurd; Pollack, Ester (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    The term ‘think tank’ represents a heterogeneous concept and is used to characterise a diverse group of organisations. This diversity also characterises the Swedish organisations and institutions that currently fall under ...
  • The New Normal: Scandals as a Standard Feature of Political Life in Nordic Countries 
    Pollack, Ester; Allern, Sigurd; Kantola, Anu; Ørsten, Mark (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    All political scandals trigger discussions of trust, but in a competitive commercial media climate, both important and minor legal offences and moral transgressions are regularly treated as scandalous media events. Today, ...