ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes whether the gatekeeping routines in South Africa and Norway are culturally unique. Ragin's Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) technique allows a research design to build causal relationships based on the researcher's knowledge of the data and on the expectations from existing literature in the field. This study draws on existing research about journalism in Norway and South Africa, as well as gatekeeping theory and media sociology. A solution-oriented news routine is one in which journalists describe a set of news decisions in which they consider the impact the news choices have on the community itself. Their gatekeeping routines involve deliberate choices about what is news and how to frame that news, drawing on a community development approach. Globalization may be prompting some of the news organizations to embrace a community-focused set of routines as a resistance to these perceived external forces.
