The “Gate Keeper”: A Case Study in the Selection of News
- 1 September 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journalism Quarterly
- Vol. 27 (4) , 383-390
- https://doi.org/10.1177/107769905002700403
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.Keywords
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