Covering the environmental issues and global warming in delta land: A study of three newspapers

Pacific Journalism Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 10-33

  Das, Jahnnabi ^a   Bacon, Wendy ^a   Zaman, Akhteruz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Development; Environmental journalism; Field theory; Global warming; Journalists sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858677053     PISSN: 10239499     EISSN: 23242035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.24135/pjr.v15i2.982     Document Type: Article

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