Making sense of the newspaper crisis: A critical assessment of existing research and an agenda for future work

New Media and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1375-1394

  Siles, Ignacio ^a   Boczkowski, Pablo J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

advertising; audiences; business models; crisis; journalism; media transition; news circulation; news consumption; newspaper economics; newspapers; online news

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870030630     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444812455148     Document Type: Review

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