The effectiveness of straitfied constructed week sampling for content analysis of electronic news source archives: ap newswire, business wire, and pr newswire

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 862-883

  Connolly Ahern, Colleen ^a   Ahern, Lee A ^a   Bortree, Denise Sevick ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INFORMATION; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE; SAMPLING;

EID: 77950498309     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769900908600409     Document Type: Article

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