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What are Utah farmers' market shoppers willing to do to protect local agriculture?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The purpose of this study is to determine what actions Utah farmers' market shoppers would be willing to take to protect their supply of local food: agriculture. This qualitative study used in-depth interviews of 32 farmers' ...
Climate change in the newsroom : journalists' evolving standards of objectivity when covering global warming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Climate change may well be the most important environmental issue of our time. For journalists covering the environmental beat, there is no bigger story - and none more treacherous. Journalists have been accused of distorting ...
Lee Ester News Fellowship. How audience habits should influence the development of radio station web sites: A case study of Wisconsin public radio
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Media outlets have faced a lot of change in the past decade: the increasing dominance of the Internet, the transition to digital formats and shrinking newsrooms, to name a few. But the root challenges taxing newsrooms ...
The Effect of Source On Agricultural Producers' Perceptions of Credibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This field experiment sought to examine the effects of a media source on agricultural producers' perceptions of credibility and agricultural advertising influence in a news story. Subscribers to DTN/The Progressive Farmer ...
Constructing scarcity: a rhetorical analysis of natural resource journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The subject of natural resource scarcity has occupied the minds of social scientists since the 17th century. Scarcity is a difficult concept to define and yet more difficult to predict. It is partly subjective, partly ...
EnVoz Alta: Honduran youth gain a stronger voice with journalism education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The EnVoz Alta project involved teaching journalism to approximately 230 fifth and sixth grade students in Siguatepeque, Honduras. The students learned reporting and writing techniques through a mixture of lecture, interactive ...