News selection criteria in the digital age: Professional norms versus online audience metrics

Journalism

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1037-1053

  Welbers, Kasper ^a   Van Atteveldt, Wouter ^a   Kleinnijenhuis, Jan ^a   Ruigrok, Nel ^b   Schaper, Joep ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gatekeeping; journalism; online audience metrics; professional norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991795262     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884915595474     Document Type: Article

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