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In the high country : crafting long-form stories on recreation and the environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Magazine deck: The journalism profession needs to develop a process of best practices for avoiding cliche in environmental stories by treading a thin line between familiarity with a story arc that resonates with a reader ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...
Framing of fisheries in collapse : a content analysis of two newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This quantitative content analysis draws from framing theory to examine newspaper coverage of fisheries in collapse. Two groups of newspaper articles formed the population for this census: coverage of the Georges Bank cod ...
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 ...
Ecocentric framing of forest controversies in the Missouri Ozarks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Contentious issues involving human interactions with forests in the Ozark region of southern Missouri have surfaced repeatedly in recent decades. This ...
Role perceptions of environmental journalists working for online-only organizations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The newsroom environment is changing, impacting coverage of science and environmental stories. This report includes a collection of interviews ...
What we talk about when we talk about climate change : storytelling in the anthropocene
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Fifty years ago, a scientific advisory committee informed President Lyndon B. Johnson about the threat of climate change, writing, "Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment," and we've been grappling ...