Mediated representations of violence against women in the mainstream news in Australia

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Sources of information quoted or paraphrased (of those that used sources, n = 311)^a

	frequency	%
Police	94	30
Politician	90	29
Perpetrator	34	11
Judge, magistrate or coroner	33	11
Domestic violence advocate and/spokesperson	31	10
Lawyer	28	9
Family of victim	27	9
Victim/survivor advocate	24	8
Other media outlets	18	6
Reports, documents or legislation	14	5
Neighbours or bystanders	13	4
Academics	10	3

^aCoders selected more than one source (if applicable), therefore frequencies and percentages do not add up to 100

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