Towards more balanced news access? A study on the impact of cost-cutting and Web 2.0 on the mediated public sphere

Journalism

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 850-867

  Van Leuven, Sarah ^a   Deprez, Annelore ^a   Raeymaeckers, Karin ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Churnalism; Content analysis; Cost cutting; Digitalization; Network journalism; News access; Public sphere; Social media; Sourcing practices; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924093483     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884913501837     Document Type: Article

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