Da flyktingkrisen kom till Norden : En studie av SVTnyheter og DRnyheters web-artikler, og deres tolkningsrammer av flyktingsituasjonen høsten 2015

The framing of the refugee crisis in Swedish and Danish media is investigated through the media coverage of ”flyktningsituasjonen” from September 2015 until October 2015. The report analyzes the two public service news platforms on the web in the respective countries; SVTnews in Sweden and DRnews in Denmark. The aim is to look at the coverage of the refugee crises in the period September 2015 to October 2015, and specifically to investigate which framing the refugee crisis had in SVTnews and DRnews, and if there existed a difference in the coverage between these news-platforms. A total of 106 web-articles were analyzed according to the following three criteria; 1. Which topoi/angle are covered in each article? How are the national frame and the European frame of the refugee crisis presented in \u2028the analyzed medias? Do there exist differences in the framing of the refugee crisis in the analyzed medias? This study finds that the news available from the two news platforms are dominated by an angle showing societal consequences, and that the news coverage is dominated by public actors from the respective countries. The refugee crisis is found to be surrounded by a wide spectrum of frames, but when the results are analyzed throughout the dichotomy of the national frame vs. the European frame, there is a tendency for the refugee crisis to be covered rather as a national crisis in SVTnews and rather as a European crisis in the DRnews. That means there were some differences in the framing of the refugee crisis in the SVTnews and DRnews in the studied period.