Objectivity” and “hard news” reporting across cultures: Comparing the news report in english, french, japanese and indonesian journalism

Journalism Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 212-228

  Thomson, Elizabeth A ^a   White, Peter R R ^b   Kitley, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Appraisal; Inverted pyramid; Journalism; News; Objectivity; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020075375     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700701848261     Document Type: Article

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