Sacco, Vittoria

2018-11-14, Dingerkus, Filip, Dubied, Annik, Keel, Guido, Sacco, Vittoria, Wyss, Vinzenz

It is often stated that journalism and the media are going through some fundamental changes. In this article, we present a description of the journalists in Switzerland, based on a nation-wide survey conducted in 2015. This data gives a quantitative description of journalists in Switzerland. Furthermore, this article makes comparison between various groups of journalists, for example between the different language regions in Switzerland, in order to give a differentiated picture of who the journalists are, what their working situation looks like and how they perceive their own professional role in society.

2018, Sacco, Vittoria, Gorin, Valérie

2017-1-31, Bonin, Geneviève, Dingerkus, Filip, Dubied, Annik, Mertens, Stefan, Rollwagen, Heather, Sacco, Vittoria, Shapiro, Ivor, Standaert, Olivier, Wyss, Vinzenz

Canada, Belgium and Switzerland are multicultural countries with several similarities including having French as a minority language. The trio also shares similar media landscapes, systems and approaches to journalism to those of other Western European and Northern American countries. These commonalities offer an opportunity to probe for the possibility of a language-based differentiation in journalists’ professional identities. Our comparative analysis of Worlds of Journalism Study data suggests that francophone journalists in our three countries have much more in common than not with their other-language peers. However, the francophone journalists seem more likely to identify with a politicized role that includes agenda-setting, citizen-motivation and scrutinizing power, and less likely to be driven by attracting and satisfying audiences. A différence francophone exists, but it is modest.

2017, Dal Zotto, Cinzia, Sacco, Vittoria, Schenker, Yoann, van Kranenburg, Hans

2018-11-14, Filip Dingerkus, Dubied, Annik, Guido Keel, Sacco, Vittoria, Vinzenz Wyss

It is often stated that journalism and the media are going through some fundamental changes. In this article, we present a description of the journalists in Switzerland, based on a nation-wide survey conducted in 2015. This data gives a quantitative description of journalists in Switzerland. Furthermore, this article makes comparison between various groups of journalists, for example between the different language regions in Switzerland, in order to give a differentiated picture of who the journalists are, what their working situation looks like and how they perceive their own professional role in society.

2017-8-4, Sacco, Vittoria, Gorin, Valérie

The Syrian conflict has challenged both the ways of reporting war and its impact on the public. However, only a few empirical studies have tried to assess public reactions to representations of war. In this paper, we use an empirically-based study that combines quantitative and qualitative methods to assess how Swiss audiences react to crisis reporting and visual news framing in French-speaking Swiss media. The study offers a preliminary understanding of how people react to images in the media, especially with respect to military and political contexts, and also builds a visual map of how audiences process information contained in news images of war.

2017, Bossio, Diana, Sacco, Vittoria

2018, Dingerkus, Filip, Dubied, Annik, Keel, Guido, Sacco, Vittoria, Wyss, Vinzenz

2017-4-28, Pignard-Cheynel, Nathalie, Richard, Jessica, Sacco, Vittoria

2017, Dal Zotto, Cinzia, Schenker, Yoann, Sacco, Vittoria, van Kranenburg, Hans