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Medical journalists and expert sources on medicines

Anke M. van Trigt

University Centre for Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics, Section Pharmacy and Society, University of Groningen, Ant. Deusinglaan 2, 9713 AW Groningen, the Netherlands

Lolkje T. W. de Jong-van den Berg

University Centre for Pharmacy, Groningen

Flora M. Haaijer-Ruskamp

World Health Organization collaborating centre for clinical pharmacology and drug policy science in the Department of Health Sciences of the University of Groningen

Jaap Willems

Free University of Amsterdam and the Catholic University of Nijmegen

T. (Dirk) F. J. Tromp

University Centre for Pharmacy, Groningen

We describe here how medical journalists writing for Dutch daily newspapers use experts when dealing with medicines. Two approaches, interviews and content analysis, were used to answer the research questions. Both methods show that journalists can find relevant experts to give them information about various medicines. The pharmacist, however, is not one of them. Furthermore, the content analysis shows that two types of experts can be distinguished: the objective and independent experts who were often cited alone in an article, and the subjective experts who frequently were cited in combination with other experts.

Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, 309-321 (1994)
DOI: 10.1088/0963-6625/3/3/005
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