Digital-Born and Legacy News Media on Twitter during the German Federal Election

In  this  RISJ  factsheet  we  analyse  720,799  news-related  tweets   from   a   larger   dataset   of   4.4   million   tweets   collected  during  the  2017  German  Federal  Election  to  examine  the  role  of  digital-born1  and  legacy  news  media  in online political discussions in Germany. We found that the main public service media organisations, ARD and ZDF,  alongside  weekly  news  publications,  especially  Die  Zeit  and  Der  Spiegel,  figured  very  prominently  during the German campaign.  All four had wider reach and higher levels of audience engagement than other news providers.

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Citation: Majó-Vázquez, S., Nurse, J. R., Simon, F., & Nielsen, R. K. (2017). Digital-Born and Legacy News Media on Twitter during the German Federal Election. Oxford, UK.