Comparative Political Journalism analyses media values across a wide range of countries to assess established concepts in political communication world-wide.

Claes de Vreese is Professor and Chair of Political Communication at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is the founding Director of the Center for Politics and Communication (www.polcomm.org). His most recent book is Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective (2014, with Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen and Nael Jebril).

Frank Esser is Professor and Chair of International & Comparative Media Research at the University of Zurich, Swizterland. He co-directs the National Research Center on the Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century (NCCR Democracy). His most recent book is Mediatization of Politics (2014, with Jesper Strömbäck).

David Nicolas Hopmann is Professor with special responsibilities at the Centre for Journalism and the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark.

1. Our Goal: Understanding News Performance 2. How We Did It: Approach and Methods 3. The Explanatory Logic: Factors That Shape Political News 4. Strategy and Game Framing 5. Interpretive Journalism 6. Negativity 7. Political Balance 8. Personalization 9. Hard and Soft News 10. Cross-Conceptual Architecture of News 11. Conclusion: Assessing News Performance