Coronavirus Reporting: A Comparison of the Online and Print Editions of Večernji list

Koronavirus je naglim širenjem 2020. godine promijenio svijet te prouzročio globalnu krizu o kojoj su mediji svakodnevno izvještavali. Teme poput epidemiološke situacije i restriktivnih mjera s ciljem suzbijanja širenja koronavirusa i bolesti COVID-19 postale su vrlo česte, a mnogi smatraju da je postojalo i previše informacija. Tako je i Svjetska zdravstvena organizacija upozorila da se uz širenje pandemije koronavirusa širi i „infodemija“, odnosno da je medijski prostor prezasićen informacijama. U ovome radu analiziralo se izvještavanje o koronavirusu u online i tiskanom izdanju Večernjeg lista u tri tjedna 2020. godine s ciljem utvrđivanja sličnosti i razlika među njima. Istraživanje je pokazalo kako je znatno više članaka o koronavirusu objavljeno u online izdanju. Više autora u tiskanom izdanju potpisano je imenom i prezimenom ili inicijalima, a manje je naslova senzacionalističkog tipa što upućuje na ipak vjerodostojnije izvještavanje u usporedbi s online izdanjem. Razlike su utvrđene i u temama o kojima se najviše izvještavalo, no postoje i sličnosti u vidu zemljopisnog područja koje je bilo u fokusu te intonaciji prema Nacionalnom stožeru civilne zaštite.The rapid spread of the coronavirus in 2020 changed the world and caused a global crisis that was reported about daily by the media. Topics such as the epidemiological situation and restrictive measures aimed at suppressing the spread of the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease had become very common and many believe that there was too much information. Thus, the World Health Organization warned that along with the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the “infodemic” was also spreading, that is, that the media space is oversaturated with information. This thesis analyzed the coverage of the coronavirus in online and printed editions of Večernji list in three weeks of 2020 with the aim of determining the similarities and differences between them. The research showed that significantly more articles about the coronavirus were published in the online edition. More authors in the printed edition were signed with their first and last name or initials and there are fewer sensationalistic headlines, which benefits the credibility of the print media reporting compared to the online edition. Differences were also found in the topics that were reported the most, but there are also similarities in terms of the geographical area that was in focus and the intonation towards to the National Headquarters of Civil Protection