Being the New York Times: The political behaviour of a newspaper

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Puglisi, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

elections; information; mass media; media bias; news

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955652034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.2025     Document Type: Article

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