Media credibility reconsidered: Synergy effects between on-air and online news

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 247-264

  Bucy, Erik P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIA INDUSTRY; PERCEPTION;

EID: 0242490491     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900308000202     Document Type: Article

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