Newspaper Ownership Structure and the Quality of Local Political News Coverage
Description:
This research sought to ascertain how newspaper ownership structures influence the quality of local political news coverage. More specifically, do independently owned newspapers tend to produce larger quantities of quality local political reporting than do corporately owned and publicly traded newspapers? In the thesis, I develop an understanding of "quality" news coverage as being coverage that is thematic, or providing interpretive analysis and supplying contextual information. Additionally,…
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Date:
May 2012
Creator:
Clark, Karla Christine Marie
Partner:
UNT Libraries