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Newspapers and citizenship: Young adults’ subjective experience of newspapers

Kevin G. Barnhurst Research Fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, Columbia University
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Ellen Wartella Research Professor at the Institute of Communication Research, University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign
Pages 195-209 | Published online: 18 May 2009

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Emily K. Vraga & Stephanie Edgerly. (2023) Relevance as a Mechanism in Evaluating News-Ness among American Teens and Adults. Digital Journalism 0:0, pages 1-21.
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Romayne Smith Fullerton & Maggie Jones Patterson. (2006) Murder in Our Midst: Expanding Coverage to Include Care and Responsibility. Journal of Mass Media Ethics 21:4, pages 304-321.
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KevinG. Barnhurst, Víctor Sampedro & Tânia Cordeiro. (2006) “The Press Motivated Me”: Life Histories with the Media in Brazil. The Communication Review 9:3, pages 163-187.
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Bruce E. Pinkleton & Erica Weintraub Austin. (2004) Media Perceptions and Public Affairs Apathy in the Politically Inexperienced. Mass Communication and Society 7:3, pages 319-337.
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Karin Raeymaeckers. (2004) Newspaper editors in search of young readers: content and layout strategies to win new readers. Journalism Studies 5:2, pages 221-232.
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KevinG. Barnhurst & Ellen Wartella. (1998) Young citizens, American TV newscasts and the collective memory. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 15:3, pages 279-305.
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StevenR. Goldzwig & PatriciaA. Sullivan. (1995) Post‐assassination newspaper editorial eulogies: Analysis and assessment. Western Journal of Communication 59:2, pages 126-150.
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Debra Spitulnik Vidali. (2010) Millennial Encounters with Mainstream Television News: Excess, Void, and Points of Engagement. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 20:2, pages 372-388.
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Vivian B. Martin. (2008) Attending the news. Journalism 9:1, pages 76-94.
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Henk WesterikKarsten RenckstorfJan LammersFred Wester. (2006) Transcending Uses and Gratifications: Media use as social action and the use of event history analysis. comm 31:2, pages 139-153.
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Sally J. McmillanMargaret Morrison. (2016) Coming of age with the internet. New Media & Society 8:1, pages 73-95.
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Denise E. Delorme, Peggy J. Kreshel & Leonard N. Reid. (2016) Lighting Up. Youth & Society 34:4, pages 468-496.
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Kevin G. Barnhurst. (2016) Political Engagement and the Audience for News: Lessons from Spain. Journalism & Communication Monographs 2:1, pages 6-61.
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Christopher J. Schroll. (1999) Theorizing the Flip Side of Civic Journalism: Democratic Citizenship and Ethical Readership. Communication Theory 9:3, pages 321-345.
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Kevin G. Barnhurst. (1998) Are Graphic Designers Killing Newspapers?. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social:53, pages 505-510.
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Kevin G. Barnhurst. (2016) Politics in the fine meshes: young citizens, power and media. Media, Culture & Society 20:2, pages 201-218.
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Kevin G. Barnhurst & Diana Mutz. (1997) American Journalism and the Decline in Event-Centered Reporting. Journal of Communication 47:4, pages 27-53.
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Leo W. JeffresDavid J. Atkin. (2016) Dimensions of Student Interest in Reading Newspapers. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 51:3, pages 15-23.
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