Entman Framing Analysis of COVID-19 News A comparative analysis of the Washington Post and the New York Times

Abstract: 

This study selected two articles as examples on COVID-19 and Chinese economy from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, aimed to understand why they both choose COVID-19 and Chinese economy as a topic, and find how these two examples framing the news related to COVID-19’s impact on Chinese economy using Entman Framing Analysis. This report used news values as theoretical concept, deployed framing analysis (Entman, 1993) as the method of the study. The result shows that these two media both employed financialization frame, but the Wall Street Journal also adopted a politicization frame and a discrimination frame.