Telling “Our” story through news of terrorism: Mythical newswork as journalistic practice in crisis

Journalism Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 691-707

  Nossek, Hillel ^a   Berkowitz, Dan ^b  

^a The College of Management Academic Studies ^*  (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural distance; Cultural proximity; Israel; Journalism; Myth; News; News as narrative; News as storytelling; Terrorism; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014997468     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700600890356     Document Type: Article

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