298. Name: Hrant Galstyan Title: Disputed Land, Disputed Lives: Transnational and regional coverage of the humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh in the 2020 war (The Cases of the Guardian, Al Jazeera, Sputnik and Hürriyet) Institution: Stockholm University Country: Sweden Date: 2021 Language: English Abstract: This study examines the media coverage of the humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh during the 2020 war. Two transnational and two regional news outlets are analyzed in this research (The Guardian and Al Jazeera, Sputnik and Hürriyet). All of these four outlets address a global audience through English, but represent different journalistic perspectives. Quantitative content analysis was conducted to measure the scope and particularities of the attention given to the crisis of Nagorno-Karabakh, and qualitative narrative analysis was used for a closer examination of the narration of past and present events, places and people. The research findings suggest that the humanitarian crisis in the region received little attention in general within the daily coverage of the war. People of the region were cited rarely in the reports on their condition and were largely absent from the news photographs too. They were depicted in feature articles mostly through their experience of fighting, limiting the diverse contexts of their lives. However, exceptions were observed too. Although proximity is argued to have affected the reporting by regional outlets, similarities and differences across the two groups were found.
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