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Citizen Journalism Web Sites Complement Newspapers

Newspaper Research JournalPublished 1 March 2010
Stephen Lacy, Margaret Duffy, Daniel Riffe, Esther Thorson, Ken Fleming
Citations47
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score0.50
SNIP0.81

Abstract

A content analysis of 86 citizen blog sites, 53 citizen news sites and 63 daily newspaper sites indicated that citizen journalism sites, including both news and blog sites, differed significantly from newspaper sites.

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Social Sciences