Missing children in national news coverage: Racial and gender representations of missing children cases

Communication Research Reports

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 207-216

  Min, Seong Jae ^a   Feaster, John C ^b  

^a PACE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Media Bias; Minority; Race and Media; Television News; Women in Media

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959651042     PISSN: 08824096     EISSN: 17464099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08824091003776289     Document Type: Article

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