'A news of feeling as well as fact': Mourning and memorial in American newsmagazines

Journalism

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 171-195

  Kitch, Carolyn ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Celebrity; Commemoration; Death; Journalism; Newsmagazines; Ritual

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249086531     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146488490000100202     Document Type: Article

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