[2] She is one of the co-developers of Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA), which is a framework for analyzing how events are constructed as newsworthy through language and images.

She received her PhD in English Linguistics (summa cum laude) in 2005 from the University of Augsburg under the supervision of Wolfram Bublitz.

[16] Early corpus-assisted discourse analysis systematically compared the expression of opinion in British broadsheet and tabloid newspapers.

[17] In collaboration with Dr. Helen Caple, Bednarek later created a framework for the discursive analysis of news values, called DNVA.

The book includes a chapter describing a local grammar of affect, evaluated by Susan Hunston as 'probably the most successful' version.