DETERMINANTS OF NEWS CONTENT: Comparing journalists' perceptions of the normative and actual impact of different event properties when deciding what's news

Journalism Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 718-728

  Strömbäck, Jesper ^a   Karlsson, Michael ^b   Hopmann, David Nicolas ^c  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

criteria of newsworthiness; news factors; news selection; news values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868295555     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2012.664321     Document Type: Article

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