"Keeping the Gates" for Gatekeepers: The Effects of Wire News.

Whitney, D. Charles; Becker, Lee B.

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Publication Date: 1982

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"Keeping the Gates" for Gatekeepers: The Effects of Wire News.

Whitney, D. Charles; Becker, Lee B.

Journalism Quarterly, v59 n1 p60-65 Spr 1982

Newspaper editors in two Ohio communities cooperated in a counterbalanced design field experiment to test whether proportions of news items in seven content areas transmitted by wire services served to cue editors as to proportions that should be selected from each category. (FL)

Descriptors: Administrators, Information Sources, Media Research, News Reporting, Newspapers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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