Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ346975
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Accounting for Patterns of Selection of Topics in Statehouse Reporting.
Dunwoody, Sharon; Shields, Steven
Journalism Quarterly, v63 n3 p488-96 Aut 1986
Concludes that journalists and sources share notions about what aspects of a bureaucratic process are worth their attention and that journalists select information in a patterned way, with that pattern determined by the frames of reference of the sources. (FL)
Descriptors: Information Sources, Legislation, Legislators, Media Research, News Reporting, State Government
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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