Hard and soft news: A review of concepts, operationalizations and key findings

Journalism

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-239

  Reinemann, Carsten ^a   Stanyer, James ^b   Scherr, Sebastian ^a   Legnante, Guido ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

conceptual analysis; content analysis; hard news; infotainment; soft news; tabloidization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855978505     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884911427803     Document Type: Review

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