Numbers in the News: A mathematics audit of a daily newspaper

Journalism Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 507-519

  Maier, Scott R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Journalism; Journalism Education; Mathematics; Newspapers; Numeracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052562153     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1461670022000019191     Document Type: Article

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