How citizens create news stories: The “news access” problem reversed

Journalism Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 739-758

  Reich, Zvi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Citizen journalism; Initiative; News sources; Newsmaking; Online news

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349520517     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700802207748     Document Type: Article

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