Traversing the “Twittersphere” social media policies in international news operations

Journalism Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 343-357

  Bloom, Terry ^a   Cleary, Johanna ^b   North, Michael ^c  

^a QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Al Jazeera; CNN; Globo; International news agencies; Office of cuba broadcasting; RTVE; Social media; Telecinco; Twitter; Voice of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011049533     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2015.1017408     Document Type: Article

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