The Effectiveness of Stratified Constructed Week Sampling for Content Analysis of Electronic News Source Archives: AP Newswire, Business Wire, and PR Newswire.

This study extends the content analysis sampling literature through exploration of sample size requirements for electronic news source archives. Significantly larger samples are required to achieve representativeness for AP Newswire, Business Wire, and PR Newswire than for more traditional sources o...

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Published in:	Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly Vol. 86; no. 4; pp. 862 - 884
Main Authors:	Connolly-Ahern, Colleen, Ahern, Lee A., Bortree, Denise Sevick
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication Winter2009
Subjects:	Associated Press Business Wire Inc. PR Newswire Association LLC Statistical sampling Content analysis Digital resources for archives Journalism research Research methodology American journalism Methodology
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost