International terrorism, domestic coverage? How terrorist attacks are presented in the news of CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC, and ARD

International Communication Gazette

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-26

  Gerhards, Jürgen ^a   Schäfer, Mike S ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Al Jazeera; framing; globalization; mass media; news coverage; television; terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892844396     PISSN: 17480485     EISSN: 17480493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1748048513504158     Document Type: Article

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