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Death of a Media Princess

The Diana Story in Five Nations’ Newspapers
  • Anne Cooper-Chen
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Abstract

The death of Princess Diana will surely rank among the top stories of the millen-ium’s final decade. For 1997, 119 newspaper, radio, TV and news agency editors in 43 countries outside the United States named it as the year’s #1 story. Within the United States, 190 Associated Press newspaper editors and news directors chose it as #1 among both U.S. and international stories.

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