Democratizing journalism?: Realizing the citizen's agenda for local news media

Journalism Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 327-342

  Meijer, Irene Costera ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WINDESHEIM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Audience study; Democracy; Ethnography; Local media; Urban communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959621085     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700903500256     Document Type: Article

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