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. 2020 Aug 31;17(17):6330. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17176330

Table 1.

Elements of the analysis.

Items at the Front Page Total Number
Coronavirus-Related Items Total Number
Journalistic genre News, interview, chronicle, report, editorial, opinion article, brief, editorial photo, cartoon
Location on the front page Top left, top right, entire top area, bottom left, bottom right, entire bottom area, entire page
Type of prevailing information Data or interpretative
Entities/institutions in the information National non-political entities, national political entities, geographical entities, international/foreign political entities, international/foreign non-political entities, others
Main characters in the information Home politicians, international/foreign politicians, citizens, doctors and medical staff, scholars-researchers, patients and the affected, famous people/celebrities and others
Type of the headline Informative, expressive or appellative
Type of quotation in the headlines Direct quote, indirect quote or partially direct quote
Type of verbs in the headline Narrative, interpretative weak, interpretative strong or perlocutionary
Images/photos Number of photos/images
Type of the image/photo Color or black and white
Function of the image/photo Documentary or artistic
Main characters of the image/photo Home politicians, international/foreign politicians, citizens, doctors and medical staff, scholars-researchers, patients and the affected, famous people/celebrities and others

Source: Elaborated by the authors based on [34,35,36,37,38,39,40].