The news conference: How daily newspaper editors construct the front page

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 971-986

  Reisner, Ann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 84972633243     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: 2161430X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769909206900416     Document Type: Article

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9. Positive assessments are overall descriptions of the news story, examples include: CE: “INteresting AP piece” AE: “interesting little piece.”
10. Examples of such intensifiers include the italicized words: NE: “tremendous (.4) potential (1.6) disfigurement or harm to humans,” NE: “massive effect. just immense.”
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