THE JOURNALIST IS MARKETING THE NEWS: Social media in the gatekeeping process

Journalism Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 950-966

  Tandoc, Edson C ^a   Vos, Tim P ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

case study; digital journalism; ethnography; journalism; news; online journalists; online news; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991769556     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2015.1087811     Document Type: Article

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