Ownership and barriers to entry in non-metropolitan daily newspaper markets

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 327-342

  Lacy, Stephen ^a   Coulson, David C ^b   Martin, Hugh J ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arab US Assoc/Commun Educators   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

MEDIA INDUSTRY;

EID: 4444382617     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900408100207     Document Type: Article

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