The Israel Social Justice Protest movement of 2011 and its wide media coverage

What is it about?

This paper explores and explains the wide media coverage of the Israel Social Justice Protest movement in 2011. The paper illustrates how internal movement characteristics affected wide media coverage as well as other newsworthiness considerations. We find that journalists personal Identification with the movement led to positive reporting and wide coverage, and in some cases also to journalistic activism where journalists actively helped the movement on and off duty.

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Why is it important?

We find and develop mechanisms that explain wide and favorable media coverage, especially in the context of social movements. The paper also looks at the role of journalists' personal attitudes in media coverage and proposes when such attitudes may be important to media coverage.