Antecedents to Agenda Setting and Framing in Health News: An Examination of Priority, Angle, Source, and Resource Usage from a National Survey of U.S. Health Reporters and Editors

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Funding for this research has been given by NIH Grants (5 U01 CA114644; 5R25CA057711-14; OMB#0925-0541) and funding by the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center to Dr. Viswanath.

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2005 NCI survey of U.S. health and medical science reporters and editors.

Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for weighted, multivariable fitted logistic regression models that describe the odds of saying that a given source is used “very often/often” for information when working on a health story, by organizational and individual characteristics of reporters and editors.

^∼ p > .06, ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .01, ∗∗∗p < .0001.

Referent categories: Organization owned by a public corporation; organization owned by a group or chain; large media organization; master's degree or more; 16+ years working as reporter or editor; does have freedom to select stories.

2005 NCI survey of U.S. health and medical science reporters and editors.

Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for weighted, multivariable fitted logistic regression models that describe the odds of saying that a given resource is used “very often/often” for information when working on a health story, by organizational and individual characteristics of reporters and editors.

^∼ p > .06, ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .01, ∗∗∗p < .0001.

Referent categories: Organization owned by a public corporation; organization owned by a group or chain; large media organization; master's degree or more; 16+ years working as reporter or editor; does have freedom to select stories.

2005 NCI survey of U.S. health and medical science reporters and editors.

Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for weighted, multivariable fitted logistic regression models that describe the odds of saying that a given priority is “very important/important” when reporting on a health story, by organizational and individual characteristics of reporters and editors.

^∼ p > .06, ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .01, ∗∗∗p < .0001.

Referent categories: Organization owned by a public corporation; organization owned by a group or chain; large media organization; master's degree or more; 16+ years working as reporter or editor; does have freedom to determine emphasis.

2005 NCI survey of U.S. health and medical science reporters and editors.

Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for weighted, multivariable fitted logistic regression models that describe the odds of saying that a given priority is “very important/important” when reporting on a health story, by organizational and individual characteristics of reporters and editors.

^∼ p < .10, ∗p < .05, ∗∗p < .01, ∗∗∗p < .0001.

Referent categories: Organization owned by a public corporation; organization owned by a group or chain; large media organization; master's degree or more; 16+ years working as reporter or editor; does have freedom to determine emphasis.