Look who's talking: Use of sources in newspaper coverage in Sweden and the United States

Journalism Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-91

  Dimitrova, Daniela V ^a   Strömbäck, Jesper ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cross cultural media studies; Election coverage; Elite press; Mohammad Cartoons; News sources; War coverage

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849119610     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512780802560773     Document Type: Article

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