Vilka stora tänder du har! : En kvantitativ analys av fyra svenska tidningars rapportering om vargar under 2011 och 2012.

Sammanfattning: This BA Thesis in Journalism is a quantitative analysis of the coverage of wolves in Swedish printed media. Namely four daily newspapers, two national and two local. The two national newspapers are Aftonbladet which is a leading tabloid newspaper with national coverage and Svenska Dagbladet which is one of the two major newspapers with national coverage, as well as coverage of the greater Stockholm region. The two local newspapers are Falu Kuriren, which is located in Falun and mainly cover the province of Dalarna and Nya Wermlands-tidningen which is located in Karlstad and mainly cover the province of Värmland. These are provinces which have a large wolf population.As the work progressed we found that the newspapers have handled the coverage of the wolf in, what we believe, a good way. The use of powerful and strong words, such as “mayhem” etcetera, was low in most cases. Aftonbladet was the newspaper that had the highest percentage, in the amount of these words in relation to the amount of articles, with over 100 %.We also found that the pictures the newspapers used were mostly pictures of the people cited in the article and in when they used pictures of wolves they mainly used pictures which are to be considered as neutral.