Queer political news: Election-year coverage of the lesbian and gay communities on National Public Radio, 1992-2000

Journalism

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-28

  Barnhurst, Kevin G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Elections; Gay; Homosexual; Journalism; Lesbian; News; NPR; Politics; Professionalism; Radio; Reporting; Sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749156272     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884903004001439     Document Type: Article

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