Recently, there have been frequent problems of long-term rental apartments. One of the
leasing platforms, DanKe Apartment, was taken off the market 445 days after it was listed due to
problems such as insufficient funds and inability to pay rent to its landlord. The media have continued
to follow up and report the related news of this series of financial events. This paper takes January 17,
2020 to April 30, 2020 as the research period, selects 144 related reports published by JieMian News as
the research objects, and attempts to construct and analyze the reporting framework from the macro,
meso and micro levels in six categories, namely, report topic, news source, emotional tendency and
so on. In the cluster analysis of report topics, emotional tendencies, authors conduct natural language
processing on the samples to reduce the negative impact of single coder on reliability. The framework
analysis also includes the comparative analysis with Economic Daily, the cross-analysis of page views
and the cases study.
It is found that the reporting framework of JieMian News presents four characteristics: (1) The coverage
is usually diversified and closely related to hot topics. (2) News sources are extensive, and content
production is mainly professional or original. (3) The report types are mainly news and in-depth
analysis. (4) The emotions are mainly neutral and negative. The words used in reports are consistent
with the theme, and emphasize the objective presentation of data.