Coronapandemin och svenska public service : En kvantitativ innehållsanalys av hur Sveriges coronastrategi framställts i SVT och Svenska YLE.

Sammanfattning: The corona crisis has dominated the news media during 2020. The covid-19 virus has swept across the world and taken many lives. Countries have taken different approaches to handling the outbreak, with Sweden being a special case. Almost no other countries in Europe have taken the same approach. In fact, internationally Sweden has taken a lot of criticism. Different studies have shown that the media tend to report in favor of the authorities during crises. Journalism, according to these studies, proves to be more descriptive during those times and the investigative parts of journalism tend to suffer.  The role of public service media, grounded in respective countries' laws, is to stay objective and in a way serve the people with balanced news reporting. That makes them an interesting subject for this study, since it might show if they have been true to their values. The purpose of this study, which is a quantitative content analysis, is to analyse how public service media in Sweden and Finland has been framing the Swedish corona strategy during the pandemic following the coronavirus covid-19. This by analysing if there are any differences between Sveriges television (SVT) and Yleisradio Oy (YLE) in their framing and on who the responsibility has been placed to prevent the virus from spreading, which sources have been cited in the articles and if this changes over time. Our findings show that there are differences between the media organizations in their presentation of the corona strategy, regarding the study’s issues. For example, SVT placed a bigger responsibility on individuals than YLE, who were more likely to place it on the Swedish government. Although they both mainly placed it upon the government. The most common frame in both organizations was attribution of responsibility, in which the main part of individual responsibility was found. This is likely due to this frame mainly being used on press conferences where the government put out new restrictions. For a more interpretive conclusion, a qualitative analysis is encouraged as future research.