The Place of News About Russia on the Global Agenda: A Comparative Analysis of the Print Media in the G20 Countries

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Notes

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27. The twentieth member of the G20 is the European Union. Since it is not a country, it was not included in our sample (in addition, it is unclear from a methodological standpoint what would be considered the European Union’s leading print outlet).

28. The exception is Turkey, for which only one newspaper, Dünya, is indexed in Factiva.

29. Here and elsewhere, the percentage refers to the share of stories about a country in the national news media relative to the total number of stories mentioning at least one of the G20 countries.

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