Medialized science? Neuroscientists’ reflections on their role as journalistic sources

Journalism Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 413-429

  Allgaier, Joachim ^a   Dunwoody, Sharon ^b   Brossard, Dominique ^b   Lo, Yin Yueh ^a   Peters, Hans Peter ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuroscience; News production; Science journalism; Source media relations; Sources

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990027352     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2013.802477     Document Type: Article

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