Fig 1.
Distribution of news reports regarding COVID-19 during the pre-crisis stage by media institutions from different provinces.
Table 1.
The coding scheme of news frames in this study.
Fig 2.
Frequencies of news frames in Chinese media reports on COIVD-19 during the pre-crisis stage.
Table 2.
Regression and moderation analyses on examining the effect of media attributes on the weight of severity frame.
Fig 3.
The interaction effect between the level of media (LOM) and page.
Conditions for the moderator are the plus/minus one standard deviation from the mean.
Fig 4.
The interaction effect between the page position and Social Proximity (SP).
Conditions for the moderator are the plus/minus one standard deviation from the mean.
Fig 5.
The interaction effect between the severity of the situation (SOS) and social proximity (SP).
Conditions for the moderator are the plus/minus one standard deviation from the mean.