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Risky business: Covering slow‐onset hazards as rapidly developing news

Lee Wilkins School of Journalism, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65205
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Philip Patterson Department of Communication, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts, Oklahoma City, OK, 73136–1100
Pages 11-23 | Published online: 04 May 2010

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