The efficiency of constructed week sampling for content analysis of online news

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 811-824

  Hester, Joe Bob ^a   Dougall, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIA; SAMPLING BIAS;

EID: 42549143266     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900708400410     Document Type: Article

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55. The procedures described here have been effectively used in previous sampling studies. See, for example: Lacy et al., "Sample Size for Newspaper Content Analysis in Multi-Year Studies";
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