Did Print Media’s Coverage of White-Collar Crime Change After the ‘Bernie Madoff Scandal’?
Journal: HELIN Digital Commons
Year: 2013

The question guiding this research is: What are the meanings associated with white-collar crime in the media, and how, if at all, have those meanings changed in the wake of the ‘Bernie Madoff scandal’? This analysis explores how the newspaper article was framed (either episodic or thematic) and what labels were used to describe the crime and actors involved. Articles between 2007 and 2011 were analyzed, covering the year before the scandal to two years after Madoff was convicted in 2009. For fra