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Journalism's ‘Dirty Data’ below Researchers' Radar
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Journalism's ‘Dirty Data’ below Researchers' Radar

Marcus Messner and Bruce Garrison
Newspaper research journal, Vol.28(4), pp.88-100
2007-09

Abstract

This study reviews the uses of and problems with databases used in reporting, including errors and the lack of effort to repair them. Scholars and professionals, despite the serious ramifications, pay little attention to the problems.

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