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- Title
How Radio News Uses Sources to Cover Local Government News and Factors Affecting Source Use.
- Authors
Lacy, Stephen; Wildman, Steven S.; Fico, Frederick; Bergan, Daniel; Baldwin, Thomas; Zube, Paul
- Abstract
This study of source use in news coverage of local governments by 198 radio stations indicates that radio news stories had fewer and less diverse sources than daily newspaper stories. The differences in source use between radio and weekly newspaper stories were not as great. Predictor variables related to source use indicated that local government stories from publicly supported and TV-radio cross- owned radio stations included more sources and more diverse sources than found in stories from other types of stations. Radio news competition was slightly and positively correlated with greater numbers of sources and source diversity.
- Subjects
RADIO journalism; LOCAL government &; the press; POLITICAL news coverage; MUNICIPAL government; PRESS &; politics; NEWSPAPERS
- Publication
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2013, Vol 90, Issue 3, p457
- ISSN
1077-6990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077699013493790