Health content in local television news: A current appraisal

Health Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 230-237

  Wang, Zheng ^a   Gantz, Walter ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; TELEVISION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952404378     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410231003698903     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Battaglio, S. (2007, June 8). TV goes gray: Networks' audience skews much older than they'd have advertisers believe. TV Guide. Retrieved from http://www.tvguide.com/Biz/tv-goes-gray/070628-01
2. Chan-Olmsted, S. M., & Ha, L. (2003). Internet business models for broadcasters: How television stations perceive and integrate the Internet. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 47, 597-617.
3. Friedman, D. B., & Hoffman-Goetz, L. (2003). Cancer coverage in North American publications targeting seniors. Journal of Cancer Education, 18, 43-47.
4. Gantz, W., & Wang, Z. (2009). Coverage of cancer in local television news. Journal of Cancer Education, 24, 65-72.
5. Hilt, M. L. (1997). Television news and the elderly. New York: Garland.
6. Johnson, J. D. (1997). Cancer-related information seeking. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
7. Johnson, J. D., & Meischke, H. (1993). A comprehensive model of cancerrelated information seeking applied to magazines. Human Communication Research, 19, 343-367.
8. Kaiser Family Foundation, & Center for Media and Public Affairs. (1998). Assessing local television news coverage of health issues. Retrieved from http://www.kff.org/mediapartnerships/1374-crime.cfm
9. Kaiser Family Foundation, & Harvard School of Public Health. (2002). Health news index poll. Retrieved from http://www.kff.org/healthpollreport/CurrentEdition/index.cfm
10. National Center for Health Statistics. (2007). Health, United States, 2007: With chartbook on trends in the health of Americans. Hyattsville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
11. Nielson Media Research. (2007). Local television market universe estimates. Retrieved from http://www.nielsenmedia.com/nc/portal/site/Public
12. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. (2005). Public more critical of press, but goodwill persists. Retrieved from http://peoplepress.org/report/248/public-more-critical-of-press-but-goodwill-persists
13. Potter, W. J., & Levine-Donnerstein, D. (1999). Rethinking reliability and validity in content analysis. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 27, 258-284.
14. Project for Excellence in Journalism (2008). The state of the news media 2008: An annual report on American journalism. Retrieved from http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.com/2008/
15. Roberts, M., Wanta, W., & Dzwo, T. (2002). Agenda setting and issue salience online. Communication Research, 29, 452-465.
16. Scales, A. M. (1996). Examining what older adults read and watch on TV. Educational Gerontology, 22, 215-227.
17. Stuart, T. H., & Achterberg, C. (1997). Education and communication strategies for different groups and settings. FAO Food and Nutrition Paper, 62, 71-107.
18. Tian, Y., & Robinson, J. (2008). Media use and health information seeking: An empirical test of complementarity theory. Health Communication, 23, 184-190.
19. Wang, Z., & Gantz, W. (2007). Health content in local television news. Health Communication, 21, 213-221.
20. World Health Orgnization (2003). WHO definition of health. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/about/definition/en/print.html