Coverage of Japan’s tsunami included few social media sources

Maria Fontenot; Catherine A. Luther; Ioana Coman

doi:10.1177/073953291403500411

Coverage of Japan’s tsunami included few social media sources

Maria Fontenot, Catherine A. Luther, Ioana Coman

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Comparison of sources used by four major U.S. and Japanese newspapers that covered Japan’s tsunami finds each nation’s newspapers relied equally on non-official and official sources. However, few sources came from social media outlets.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	141-153
Number of pages	13
Journal	Newspaper Research Journal
Volume	35
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/073953291403500411
State	Published - Sep 1 2014

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