Gatekeeping is one of the media’s central roles in public life: people rely on mediators to transform information about billions of events into a manageable n

Gatekeeping Theory examines the process by which the billions of messages that are available in today's media world get cut down and transformed into the hundre

Much of what journalism scholars thought they knew about gatekeeping—about how it is that news turns out the way it does—has been called into question by th

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Gatekeeping in the broadest sense is a process of selection by which the billions of messages available in the world each day are transformed into the merely hu