Table 3.
The number of Lyme disease media publications released on the top five Finnish media websites during off-season months (January, November, and December) from 2011 to 2015. Publications are divided into institutional articles (university or research institution or specialist’s view), personal stories, or other articles. The type of data retrieved from website’s platform is placed in the parentheses.
| Year | Month | Week | Number of media publications per month | Media (website) | ||||
| Helsingin Sanomat | Ilta-Sanomat | Iltalehti | MTV | Yle | ||||
| 2011 | January | - | ||||||
| 2011 | November | 45 | 4 | Institutional (text) | Institutional (text) | Institutional (radio program), othera (text) | ||
| 2011 | December | 51 | 1 | Institutional (text) | ||||
| 2012 | January | - | ||||||
| 2012 | November | 46-47 | 4 | Institutional (2 texts) | Personal story (text) | Institutional (text) | ||
| 2012 | December | 50 | 1 | Personal story (text) | ||||
| 2013 | January | 3-4 | 3 | Institutional (text) | Institutional (text) | Personal story and institutional (text) | ||
| 2013 | November | - | ||||||
| 2013 | December | 50-51 | 2 | Personal story (text) | Institutional (text) | |||
| 2014 | January | - | ||||||
| 2014 | November | 46-48 | 4 | Personal story (text including notice of TV documentary on Yle), otherb (text) | Personal story (notice of TV documentary on Yle) | Institutional (text including notice of TV documentary on Yle) | ||
| 2014 | December | 51 | 2 | Institutional (2 texts) | ||||
| 2015 | January | 4 | 1 | Personal story (text) | ||||
| 2015 | November | 47 | 2 | Institutional (text) | Institutional (text) | |||
| 2015 | December | 53 | 1 | Personal story (text) | ||||
aA journalist reports ticks and Lyme disease.
bA journalist reports the different kind of ticks.
cA hyphen (-) and blank cell indicate that no publications are available.