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Download Appendix Appendix METHODOLOGICAL SUMMARY We requested the late home edition of each news- paper. Of the 20 newspapers, 14 published seven days Scope of the Quantitative Analysis a week; three, six days; and three, five days. So the This research project was the second phase of an month of 31 days in October 2003 should have ren- analysis of arts-and-culture coverage by metropolitan dered 584 separate issues. We received and coded 583 newspapers. The first phase was performed in (The Oakland Tribune on Oct. 6 was missing). A few issues were delivered with some missing sections, 33 October 1998. The second phase replicated the same of them in total. The absence of most had minimal procedures five years later, in October 2003. impact on our study. However, 10 of the missing were In both phases the National Arts Journalism specialist arts sections. As a consequence, the data are Program, in New York City, analyzed 15 metropolitan somewhat understated for The Plain Dealer (one daily newspapers (weekday, Saturday and Sunday weekend supplement), the Houston Chronicle (one editions) from 10 markets. In 2003 two additional weekend supplement), The Oakland Tribune (two dailies from the same markets—the Philadelphia weekend supplements and one daily arts and leisure Daily News and the Contra Costa Times—were added. section on the 6th), The Oregonian (one weekend sup- In each phase three national dailies were analyzed: plement and three daily A&Ls), and The Providence the coding was performed in 1998 by the Center for Journal (one daily A&L section). Arts and Culture in Washington, D.C.; in 2003 by NAJP. Pagination Each newspaper divides itself into sections. For The metropolitan titles analyzed: broadsheets the sections are designated by the letter of the alphabet that precedes the page number. For the four tabloids in our study—the Chicago Sun- Charlotte: The Charlotte Observer Times, Philadelphia Daily News, Denver Rocky Chicago: Chicago Sun-Times Mountain News, San Francisco Examiner—a section is Chicago Tribune designated by an internal title. Cleveland: The Plain Dealer Each section was classified according to one of seven categories: news, business, sports, daily A&L Denver: The Denver Post (arts and lifestyles), weekend arts, nonarts features Rocky Mountain News and advertising. News sections typically consist of the Houston: Houston Chronicle front-page “A” section and the Metro. Daily A&Ls were defined as the section containing the television Miami: The Miami Herald listings grid; they typically go under such titles as Philadelphia: Philadelphia Daily News Living or Life. Weekend arts were typically formatted (2003 only) as pullout supplements, often in tabloid format. The Philadelphia Inquirer Nonarts feature sections included topics such as trav- el, food, home and cars. Advertising sections had to Portland: The Oregonian contain no editorial matter whatsoever. We did not Providence: The Providence Journal include national magazines such as Parade or pullout San Francisco Contra Costa Times advertising supplements that were unpaginated with Bay Area: (2003 only) the newspaper’s section-letter system. The number of pages for each section was count- The Oakland Tribune ed and expressed as a proportion of the newspaper’s San Francisco Chronicle total. In cases where a section, supplement or maga- San Francisco Examiner zine had a smaller, tabloid format, its size as a propor- tion of pages would be greater than its proportion of San Jose Mercury News newsprint. Pages sold as full-page advertisements were counted for the specialist arts sections (the daily The national titles analyzed: A&Ls and the weekend supplements) and calculated as a percentage of their total pagination. The New York Times Arts and Culture Coverage USA Today Every section of each newspaper was scrutinized for The Wall Street Journal articles and listings on arts and culture. These 168 REPORTING THE ARTS II included, but were not confined to, coverage of Articles Coding entertainment television; movies and DVDs; record- An article was described by transcribing the headline, ed and live music and music videos; publishing; the or if that was cryptic, by a brief précis. If the article performing arts; decorative arts such as haute cou- was about a single artistic production, performer or ture, interior design and arts and crafts; architec- institution, its title and name were noted. A total ture; museums and libraries; entertainment radio; 7,217 articles were coded at the metropolitan newspa- and video games. Stories on art news, policy and pers and 1,530 at the nationals. Each article was fur- business were included as were the nonarts-related ther classified according to five attributes: activities of artists, performers and celebrities. Stories in the weekly TV guide were included, but • Its prominence in the newspaper: whether their grid of listings was not (since it was double- it was a lead story. counted with the daily grid). • Its byline: written by a staffer or freelancer Excluded were stories on culture in the sociologi- or provided by a syndicator or newswire. cal sense: food and drink; religion, philosophy, edu- • Its focus: a local, national, out-of-town or cation and the humanities. Nonarts media stories international story. were excluded: nonentertainment television, includ- • Its type: news, feature, review, gossip, ing news, sports and advertising; magazines; other obituary or other type of journalism. journalism; spectator sports; consumer fashion; • Its artistic discipline: Seven broad cate- media business; Internet, Web site and online gories were movies, music, TV, books and media; technology; consumer electronics; and the performing, visual and decorative arts. telecommunications. Only editorial content was included. Advertising Artistic disciplines were further divided into such was excluded. subcategories as pop-and-rock, classical and jazz In October 1998, editorial content was divided music; theater, opera and dance in the performing into articles and listings as part of our analysis after field; fiction, nonfiction and self-help in publishing; the coding was performed. This meant that listings painting, photography and sculpture in the visual arts. content—including the daily TV grid, calendar items and non-bylined thumbnail reviews—were coded Quality Control back then as if they were articles and only subse- Coding was performed by Columbia University stu- quently reclassified. In October 2003, we changed dents in the fall of 2003 on NAJP premises. To mini- the procedure so that the coder would first make the mize error, each issue of each newspaper was handled decision about whether an item was an article or a by two different coders. The first was assigned the listing before performing subsequent coding. Phase- task of locating the A&C articles and listings; the sec- to-phase comparisons on this measure may be dis- ond revisited the same newspaper as a double check torted by the effects of this change of procedure. and performed the coding data entry. However, we are confident that the October 2003 Data were entered in a custom-written online method is the more accurate of the two. interface, which contained built-in error checks to screen for illegal codes and ineligible newspaper sec- Newshole Coding tions. A field was designated to flag articles whose The dimensions of each article and listing were inclusion or exclusion was ambiguous, and they were measured to obtain its area (height and width), resolved by Andrew Tyndall, the project’s research which then was converted into nominal 2-inch-wide analyst. Tyndall designed the coding structure and column inches. The area referred to the space filled was in charge of the study five years earlier. by copy. Headlines, graphics, pull-quotes and images Tyndall checked the verbal description of each were not included in the measurement. In those article to make sure it conformed with its code. For cases where the layout used varying widths, the a double check all articles with the same code predominant width was measured. Each item was were grouped and proofread by coders to flag incon- classified according to its artistic discipline (TV, sistencies in categorization. Because any coder movies, music, etc.) and the newspaper section in error in long articles would have a disproportionate which it appeared. Listings were not further coded. effect on the findings, items of outlying length were Articles were. coded twice. NATIONAL ARTS JOURNALISM PROGRAM 169 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Architecture, and the Fund for Amateur Art and Performing Art who made this report a reality. Thanks, too, to the following people: Anita Preparing Reporting the Arts II was a truly collabora- Amirrezvani, M.J. Andersen, Linda Bergstrom, Brian tive effort. It required the help of many, many people Bistrong, Karen Brooks, Tony Brown, Grant Butler, who gave not only of their time, but also offered their Jeanne Carstensen, Wynne Delacoma, Helen advice, guidance and support. Without them this Ettlinger, Katharine Fong, Howard Gensler, Kendall study would not have been possible. Hamersley, Christopher Hawthorne, Lindsay We had a lot to keep track of: 8,747 articles had to Heinsen, Karen Hershenson, Kari Hulac, Teresa be found, collated, reviewed, argued over, analyzed, Johnson, John Kappes, Phil Kukielski, Lewis Lazare, measured, dissected, catalogued and finally added up Christine Ledbetter, Debi Licklider, Randy as part of our audit of local and national newspapers. McMullen, Judy Miller, Tom Moon, Pete Names, Nick Castrop was our database designer and dealt Deborah Nordstrom, Michael Norman, Charles with the Web-hosting. Our tech guru, Dan Reshef, Nelson, Ileana Oroza, Lillie Pak, Mike Pearson, was responsible for setting up the computers, user Naomi Person, Chris Piscitelli, Scott Powers, accounts, keeping the system running and general Elizabeth Pudwill, Joe Rassenfoss, Ray Rinaldi, Dan technical support. Oscar Torres-Reyna was the data- Santow, Orville Schell, John Sherlock, Dean Smith, base analyst. Ellen Adamson and Dennison Demac Ed Smith, Alanna Stang, Laura Sydell, Chuck Todd, copyedited all the text and caught many potentially Larry Toppman, Jim Warren, Mike Weinstein, Jeff embarrassing errors.
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