A presidential campaign’s rhetoric shifts how newspapers invoke religion when covering Muslims

Evidence

Using 915 news articles published in over 70 American newspapers, we examine religion-related media coverage of Muslims and Islam. We use hand coding of the articles and multilevel modeling techniques to assess how newspaper portrayals of Muslims are shaped. Our findings suggest important differences in newspaper use of religious associations and Muslim claimsmakers before and after the Trump Presidential campaign. These results contribute to a growing body of literature seeking to better understand the position of Muslims and Islam in the United States, as well as measure the impact of political rhetoric and political figures, like Donald Trump, on media portrayals. — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 20

Categorization

• XREF: Methodological template (hand coding plus multilevel modeling of newspaper corpora) reusable for other media-framing studies.