Political News in Online and Print Newspapers: Are online editions better by electoral democratic standards?

Digital Journalism

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 723-742

  Jacobi, Carina ^a   Kleinen von Königslöw, Katharina ^b   Ruigrok, Nel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

automatic content analysis; electoral democracy; news quality; newspaper websites; political news

Indexed keywords

EID: 84965071678     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2015.1087810     Document Type: Article

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