Citizen journalism sites as information substitutes and complements for United States newspaper coverage of local governments

Digital Journalism

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 152-168

  Fico, Frederick ^a   Lacy, Stephen ^a   Wildman, Steven S ^a   Baldwin, Thomas ^a   Bergan, Daniel ^a   Zube, Paul ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen blogs; Citizen journalism; Daily newspapers; Information complements; Information substitutes; Weekly newspapers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032106952     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2012.740270     Document Type: Article

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