How newspaper journalists reframe product press release information

Journalism

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 348-371

  Maat, Henk Pander ^a   De Jong, Caro ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b De Goudse ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attribution; editing; framing; genre analysis; journalistic independence; news reports; news writing; press releases; reframing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876105087     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884912448914     Document Type: Article

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