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The “Gate Keeper”: A Case Study in the Selection of News
Abstract
In one of the first studies of its kind, all the wire stories used and all those rejected by a non-metropolitan newspaper over a seven-day period are classified by content, and the reasons given by the telegraph editor for his choices are analyzed. Dr. White is research professor of journalism at Boston University.
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Metadata
- Authors
- White, D. M.
- Venue
- Journalism Quarterly
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1950-09
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 383-390
- ISSN
- 0196-3031 (ISSN-L)
- 0022-5533
- OpenAlex
- W2735093927
- Cited by
- 1,250
- References
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- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
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