Using "New" Media to Get "Old" Media Coverage: How Members of Congress Utilize Their Web Sites to Court Journalists

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-21

  Lipinski, Daniel ^a   Neddenriep, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congress; Internet; Journalists; Media; Web sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348233925     PISSN: 1081180X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1081180X03259819     Document Type: Review

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