Taking the paper out of news: A case study of taloussanomat, europe's first online-only newspaper

Journalism Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 691-708

  Thurman, Neil ^a   Myllylahti, Merja ^b  

^a Graduate School   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advertising; Business models; Convergence; Journalism; Online only newspapers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024196671     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700902812959     Document Type: Article

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