Amateur sources breaking the news, metasources authorizing the news of gaddafi’s death: New patterns of journalistic information gathering and dissemination in the digital age

Digital Journalism

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 352-367

  Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard ^a   Mortensen, Mette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Amateur images; Amateur sources; Breaking news; Death of Gaddafi; Elite sources; Global media; Metasourcing; War journalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977147401     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2013.790610     Document Type: Article

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