Playing the media game: The relative (in)visibility of coal industry interests in media reporting of coal as a climate change issue in Australia

Journalism Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 243-258

  Bacon, Wendy ^a   Nash, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; coal; field analysis; invisibility; journalism; visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858669636     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2011.646401     Document Type: Article

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