Personal and professional dimensions of news work: Exploring the link between journalist's values and roles

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 833-848

  Plaisance, Patrick Lee ^a   Skewes, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIA INDUSTRY;

EID: 1842762153     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900308000406     Document Type: Article

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