Commercial news criteria and investigative journalism

Journalism Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 940-963

  Rolland, Asle ^a  

^a STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Commercialisation; Investigative journalism; Journalism awards; Media and democracy; Monopoly and competition; News criteria

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549109376     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700600980710     Document Type: Article

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