A tabloid mind? Professional values and organizational pressures as explanations of tabloid journalism

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 200-218

  Skovsgaard, Morten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

commercialization; journalism; news; professionalism; tabloidization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896821699     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443713515740     Document Type: Article

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