Exploring the european elite sphere: The role of the financial times

Journalism Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 100-113

  Corcoran, Farrel ^a   Fahy, Declan ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Critical elite theory; Elite news sources; European public sphere; European union news; Financial times; Source media relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961004201     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700802560575     Document Type: Article

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