Abstract
A knowledge brokering model of news media is proposed to explain the influence of news media on public policymaking processes. The model identifies five distinct knowledge brokering functions through which news media regulate the flow and exchange of policyrelevant knowledge among policy actors who occupy the same policy ecosystem. The model also explicates the causal mechanisms that explain the nature, scope, and timing of news media’s influence on policy actors and the public policymaking process. The contributions of this model to advancing theory and research on the media-policy link are discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 191-212 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Communication Theory |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 1 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2018.
Keywords
- Knowledge Brokers
- Media Functions
- News Media
- Policy Process
- Public Policy