“Be like Sweden” (?): Swedish COVID-19 strategy in mainstream and far-right US media

Mathilda Åkerlund, Jennifer Hollowell, Ralph Schroeder, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford University , Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism

Published online on July 06, 2026

Abstract

Journalism, Ahead of Print.
By means of a longitudinal systematic content analysis across six mainstream US news and six US far-right media outlets, we illustrate in this paper how the Swedish COVID-19 approach was refracted through ideologically diverse media outlets in the US. In ...