What it is like to be a foreign journalist in China? This is the central question this project tries to answer. Through three micro-documentaries and eight in-depth interviews, this project tries to get a glimpse of foreign ...

Using the theoretical framework of professional role conceptions and the methodology of semi-structured interviews, 10 journalists at two Midwest public radio stations were interviewed in a qualitative study designed to ...

What was long known as computer-assisted reporting or "CAR" has finally become a mainstream practice at news organizations across the U.S. and around the globe. Advents in technology, open-source tools and the increasing ...

A think-aloud usability study of the revised MU Extension editorial style and usage guide addressed usability and learnability of the navigation and search function of the MU Extension online style and usage guide. I ...

Across the United States, investigative journalism organizations and public media outlets have started joining forces in greater numbers. Many have found that the relationship demands thoughtfulness and hard work, but ...

John Grierson called documentary the "creative treatment of reality". No matter how creative documentary filmmakers deal with the real "actuality", they need to convince audience of the authenticity of their filmmaking. ...

Editors at Gannett daily newspapers have seen improvements in the visual quality of their publications since the company began producing pages in regional studios. One thing holding those newspapers back, however, is that ...

Data has become a ubiquitous part of the journalistic landscape. Journalists using data in their work need a set of tools to describe data, and statistics are those tools. Statistical methods provide journalists with an ...

This critical discourse analysis looked at newsmagazine coverage of Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination. The research sought to understand if there was any difference in the language used to write ...

Few media companies have the global reach of the National Geographic Society. It includes a magazine that is read by 8 million globally and a website seen by nearly 20 million unique visitors monthly. The nonprofit has a ...

Chinese non-governmental organizations have been an increasing force in Chinese society in the 21st Century but there are very few researches addressing them in the field of journalism. This study examines how Chinese ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Throughout the research component of my master's professional project, I sought to effectively gauge the generational differences that may exist between ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Emoke Bebiak spent three months in Johannesburg, South Africa, working with The Associated Press. The professional component included working with the ...

An examination of elite newspaper coverage of the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War to see how the coverage was framed and whether bias was apparent. The study performed a textual analysis of two leading ...

This project aimed to look at how social media could or could not give citizens the voice to change the content of news and also how it could or could not hurt a given news organization's credibility. I used two focus ...

This study focused on furthering the research around the contingency theory, developed by Cancel et al. (1997), that focuses on discovering whether the response to the scandal is more accommodative or advocacy-focused. The ...

Media entrepreneurs turn their journalistic passion into running a startup newsroom. Many embrace the benefits and challenges of launching online products with grant or foundation money. They experiment with both traditional ...

This analysis compares the approach by two photographers who have both worked in the South Pacific region but who are separated by a 50-year timeframe. Jack Fields was a photographer who spent much of his life with his ...

This master's professional project examines the role of Christian faith in the area of photojournalism. In order to understand the relation of faith in ones professional work, the analysis portion of this project explores ...

This research explored reasons that city and regional magazines opt to redesign today, and what editors hope to accomplish as they re-envision content. It also examined what the redesign process entails and trends that ...