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"Playing" With Your News: A Focus Group Study on "News Your Own Adventure"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study explores how news consumers interact with self-directed news content on a tablet device. I sought to discover how visual design, interactivity and control impact the way people watch news. I conducted a focus ...
How do we measure the impact of an investigative story? : impact measurement at WFAA-TV in Dallas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Creating impact is the number one goal of an investigative piece and simply defining this six-letter word is a highly discussed topic. But, here's the problem: how do you define impact? How do you measure it? Speaking with ...
Migrant mother, sister, daughter : women immigrants in the Bel Paese
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This project is comprised of two parts, a reporting project published on Medium about the lives of women migrants in Italy and a professional analysis of the practices of multilingual international journalists. The reporting ...
Promotional strategies of media startup companies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Media startup companies are small. There are many platforms they can utilize to gather more readership. Social media accounts are a kind of owned media with lower costs. There are also paid platforms companies can use to ...
The international news publications' coverage of China's recent economic slowdown
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There has been significant media coverage about the slowdown of the Chinese economy in the past year and a half. However, the attitudes that media ...
Narrative sweat and flow : the challenge and fulfillment of covering sensitive social issues
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Long-form narrative writers who immerse themselves in other lives and situations to cover social issues have one of the hardest jobs in journalism. They take on difficult, often heart-wrenching subjects, and tell stories ...
Looking into the ‘Black Zones': A study of life and hope in Burma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Looking into the Black Zones: A Study of Life and Hope in Burma, examines the historical and personal effects of decades of civil war in Burma. Since the end of World War II, the assassination of Aung San, and the collapse ...
Between two worlds: Native American representation in print media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
To understand the state of Native American representation at both a regional and national level in print journalism this research applied a thematic analysis to the news and feature articles of the Oregonian and the New ...
Nana: A look at mother figures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Media portrayals influence people's perception of reality, including cultural definitions of concepts like motherhood. Visual messages play ...
Finding readers in the blogosphere: A project building an audience for a blog at the intersection of mothering and beekeeping http://www.bumblehive.com
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Women publish nearly four million blogs that fall under the genre known as Mommy Blogs: written by women, for women, primarily on the subjects of family life and parenting. Many Mommy Bloggers count readers in the thousands. ...
Coming of age: how different cultures mark a young woman's rite of passage into adulthood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Whether unconscious or not, a photographer's framing bias appears in every aspect of his or her work, from the conceptualization of a project to the documentation process. Does an acceptance and acknowledgement of photographers ...
Model minority
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Two contemporary documentary photographers based in the US were interviewed and asked about their approach to doing photo stories in foreign countries. They were questioned on various things that affect a story such as ...
How does the Chinese government use social media to react to social crisis: a content analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
In order to examine the Chinese government's strategies and stances reflected on its social media account during a social crisis, this research uses a content analysis of 391 Weibo posts from four official government ...
Searching for utopia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
"Searching for Utopia" is a multimedia project about the Chautauqua gated community in western New York, which is perceived by people outside the gates as a utopian place. Through the use of multimedia I try to convey why ...
Status Hierarchy: Magazine Digital Editors and Print Editors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This project is to find out whether magazine print editors are regarded as a more prestigious and valued position than their online counterparts and what web and print editors think of their status at their publication. ...
Growing an online audience for rich media : how the photography departments at the South Florida Sun- Sentinel and The Denver Post cultivated an online audience for multimedia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the height of newsroom layoffs, The Denver Post photography department found a way to attract millions of new viewers to their website by pushing for more visual, organized, quality photographs, videos and multimedia ...
How the New York Times uses information graphics and data visualizations for hard news and soft news and to foster audience engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
As data visualizations and interactive graphics are gaining more significance in journalistic storytelling, more research is needed to study their impact. This study assessed the differences in the use and production of ...
Tapping into community conversations : how broadcast journalists' social media routines influence content and sourcing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Broadcast journalists serve two masters: the long-reigning broadcast and its digital brother. Digital journalism encompasses many things: it is just as much a Facebook post as it is free standing websites made of HTML. ...
Press freedom and reporting on the government in Myanmar
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This project investigates the state of press freedom in Myanmar by comparing reporting on the government in Myanmar before and after the government lifted central censorship on print media in August 2012. Eleven semi-structured ...
From Violence to Peace: The Daily Nation and the change in how ethnicity is reported from the 2007 to the 2013 presidential elections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Between the 2007 and 2013 Kenyan presidential elections there was a shift in how ethnicity was covered in the Kenyan media. The changes were brought about by necessity and in response to a catastrophic wave of violence ...