This book analyses the coverage of elections that occurred between September 2015 and February 2016 in six European countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland, Croatia, Spain and Ireland). The sample examined includes all news stories published during the official electoral campaign in different types of media outlets: three newspapers per country covering centre-left and centre-right wing political leaning, as well as reference and tabloid papers; three main television news broadcasts covering commercial/private and public broadcast television channels; and three papers that are published only online, taking into account their levels of audience and importance within each national media and political system. The book also examines different connections to the EU and to the Euro Crisis. Questions such as the following guide the overall analysis: In what ways is news election coverage similar and different in these countries? Which issues are mostly covered by the news media and how? Arethere patterns of election news coverage in these six European countries? This book is indispensable reading for researchers and students in the field of the media coverage of election campaigns, political communication and populism. Susana Salgado is FCT Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she also teaches political communication and media studies research methods to postgraduate students. Chapters 4 and 8 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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Susana Salgado is FCT Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she also teaches political communication and media studies research methods to postgraduate students.

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Chapter 1: Comparing Election News Coverage in Europe: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of the ApproachSusana Salgado, Eileen Culloty, and Agnieszka Stpiska
Chapter 2: Media coverage of Greece's September 2015 election campaign: Framing and interpreting the issues at stakeStylianos Papathanassopoulos and Iliana Giannouli
Chapter 3: Journalism Norms and the Absence of Media Populism in the Irish General Election 2016Eileen Culloty and Jane Suiter
Chapter 4: The 2015 election news coverage: beyond the populism paradox, the intrinsic negativity of political campaigns in PortugalSusana Salgado
Chapter 5: Campaign coverage in Spain: Populism, emerging parties and personalisationÓscar G. Luengo and Belén Fernández-García
Chapter 6: Political news coverage of the 2015 election campaign in Croatia: populism and mediaMarko Mustapi, Ivan Balabani, and Mateja Plenkovi
Chapter 7: The 2015 parliamentary election in Poland: a political déjà vuAgnieszka Stpiska, Artur Lipiski, and Kinga Adamczewska
Chapter 8: Not all about trends: persistent singularities in election news coverageSusana Salgado