Towards a multidimensional approach to journalistic stance. Analyzing foreign media coverage of Belgium

►The paper relies on a cross-comparison of appraisal units and a triangulation with interview data. ► The paper explores links between text and institutional processes leading up to text production. ► A multidimensional stance analysis shows how news-making is choice-making at multiple levels. ► The text analysis starts from 48 papers on the 2010 federal government resignation in Belgium.