Goodbye to the news: How out-of-work journalists assess enduring news values and the new media landscape

New Media and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 911-928

  Usher, Nikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

buy outs; interpretive communities; layoffs; media transition; new media; newspapers; nostalgia

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957089163     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809350899     Document Type: Article

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