The impact of public ownership, profits, and competition on number of newsroom employees and starting salaries in mid-sized daily newspapers

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 949-968

  Lacy, Stephen ^a   Blanchard, Alan ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b and Writing   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM OWNERSHIP; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MEDIA INDUSTRY; PROFITABILITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1842762128     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900308000413     Document Type: Article

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