Competing models of journalism? Political affairs coverage in US, British, German, Swiss, French and Italian newspapers

Journalism

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 989-1007

  Esser, Frank ^a   Umbricht, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cross national comparative research; models of journalism; political news; quantitative content analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886608253     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884913482551     Document Type: Article

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