Abstract
ABSTRACT This article, the first systematic study of this kind at the European level on autochthonous minority languages, investigates the online news agenda and protagonists on major Internet media platforms in nine European minority language communities as social instruments that present a specific reality picture to the audience and participate in the construction of an informed public discourse. The nine European minority languages (located in Northern, Central, and Southern Europe) are Basque, Welsh, Galician, Irish, Breton, Frisian, Sámi, Corsican, and Scottish-Gaelic. The methodology is grounded in the quantitative analysis of a significant sample of online news stories collected in 2018 and the qualitative evidence provided by media directors on the mission and journalism objectives via a survey conducted in 2019 and supplemented in 2021. The findings elucidate that the news agenda presented to the communities is varied, balanced, community-focused, but limited on international and nation-state reality coverage in most communities. In addition, the news stories reveal a notable presence of ordinary people as news leading persons, but a significantly lessened presence of women. These conclusions are mostly coherent with the answers of the media editors regarding the journalism goals of the news organizations, except in the issue of gender equality.
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