Proposal for a common framework to assess media quality

Abstract

The assessment of journalistic quality has been conducted in different ways, according to the language employed. As a consequence, there is a vast number of overlapping concepts that impede both cross-national and crossmedia evaluations of Media Quality. This chapter aims to gather the European (German, English, Italian and Spanish) and American (English and Spanish) academic research tradition on journalistic quality. Consequently, a common frame to assess Media Quality will be designed, from a crossmedia perspective, following the most employed criteria in those regional research traditions.