The news in Quebec in 2008: Politics and sports in the spotlight
Influence Communication releases its annual news summary for 2008
Montreal, December 17, 2008 - Influence Communication today released its overview of the news in 2008. État de la nouvelle : Bilan 2008© analyzes the trends in the news as well as all of the news items published or broadcast in Quebec between January 1 and December 11, 2008. For the second consecutive year, Influence Communication has also made public the results of similar studies it conducted among the media elsewhere in Canada and abroad.
In Quebec in 2008, 39.88% of the news was dominated by federal and provincial politics and sports. In December, the political crisis in Ottawa ranked first among media events over a seven-day period, with 11.1% media prominence. The federal election, the Olympic Games in Beijing, the incident involving Patrick and Jonathan Roy, and the Julie Couillard (Maxime Bernier) affair rounded out the five stories most covered by the media in Quebec in 2008.
In Canada, the stories that garnered the greatest media attention over the past year were, in order of prominence, the Canadian federal election, Canada in Afghanistan, the economic crisis, the NHL playoffs, and the Canadian dollar.
Internationally, it will come as no surprise that the American presidential election ranked first among news stories carried around the world in 2008. The war in Iraq, the economic crisis, the Olympic Games in Beijing, and the war in Afghanistan followed (in that order) to make up the five stories most focused on in the 160 countries targeted by the study. The Omar Khadr affair was the Canadian story reported on most by the international media in 2008.
The various news subjects covered in État de la nouvelle : Bilan 2008 include:
Top issues
- Quebec politics
- Canadian politics
- Economy and business
- Miscellaneous and justice
- Sports
- Media, art and culture
- Corporate news
- Natural phenomena
- International news stories in Quebec
- Canadian news receiving the most coverage abroad
- Canadian news
- International news
People
- Quebec public figures
- Public figures in the Quebec provincial caucuses
- Media coverage of the provincial premiers outside their respective provinces
- Public figures in the federal caucuses
Comparative study of media
- Most cited newspapers in Quebec
- Most cited daily newspapers in Canada
- Print journalists most cited on radio and television
- Environmental coverage in daily newspapers across Canada
- Health coverage in daily newspapers across Canada
- Quebec radio stations most cited in Quebec daily newspapers
- Television programs covered in Quebec newspapers
About Influence Communication
Established in 2001, Influence Communication is Canada's top information broker. From its head office in Montreal, Influence conducts media monitoring and analysis for the majority of Canada's largest corporations. With its Interactive Communication Environment (ICE) system and network of partners across Canada and in 160 countries, Influence offers comprehensive monitoring, aggregation and analysis of newspapers, radio, television and more than 7,000 Internet news sites. Each day, Influence Communication collects over 700,000 news items from around the world.
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