Offering multiple, equally-strong frames on an issue is a less manipulative journalistic practice

What is it about?

Mauro Porto introduced a "News Diversity" standard for professional journalism a decade ago. He argued that journalists should provide multiple, equally-strong frames on every political issue, including frames preferred by civil society groups and ignored by political elites. This is the first experimental test of the News Diversity standard, and it finds that multiple frames are less manipulative (drawing readers away from their values) than single frames.

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Why is it important?

In today's ideologically polarized and fractured media environment, the News Diversity standard offers a solution: make each major news outlet a diverse marketplace of ideas, offering multiple, opposed perspectives on political issues.