Antecedents to agenda setting and framing in health news: An examination of priority, angle, source, and resource usage from a national survey of U.S. health reporters and editors

Journal of Health Communication

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-94

  Wallington, Sherrie Flynt ^a,b   Blake, Kelly ^a,b   Taylor Clark, Kalahn ^a,b   Viswanath, K ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS MEDIUM; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MASS MEDIA; SOCIAL VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949563508     PISSN: 10810730     EISSN: 10870415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10810730903460559     Document Type: Article

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