Online threat, but television is still dominant a comparative study of 11 nations’ news consumption

Journalism Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 690-704

  Papathanassopoulos, Stylianos ^a   Coen, Sharon ^b   Curran, James ^c   Aalberg, Toril ^d   Rowe, David ^e   Jones, Paul ^f   Rojas, Hernando ^g   Tiffen, Rod ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audiences; Media content; Media exposure; Media use; News consumption; News media; TV news

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010289341     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2012.761324     Document Type: Article

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