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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 ...
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 ...
Radio, radio: Building a public radio model to attract younger listeners
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This project sought to investigate the question of what can attract younger listeners to public radio programming? Using a mixed method of personal interviews with public radio practitioners and an online survey targeting ...
Nonprofit communication & brand building
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study examines the brand-building efforts of nine nonprofit organizations through semi-structured interviews with nonprofit employees and through the grounded theory method. Questions focused on the efforts made by ...
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. ...
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 ...
Gone too soon: The effects of Philadelphia's urban gun violence crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Gone Too Soon is a photographic essay of the city of Philadelphia's gun urban violence crisis. The photographs are a visual documentation of people who have been physically affected by gunfire, families and friends as they ...
The Vulvodynia monologues: A look at agenda-setting and the effects of women's reproductive health among American women in print media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This study examines the rhetoric of women's reproductive health across The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times and attempts to answer the following questions: Q1: Do national newspapers write ...
"Written So You Can Understand It" : the process and people behind creating an issue of Popular Mechanics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
At 112 years old, Popular Mechanics has one of the longest legacies in magazines. Looking at the editorial process, editor-in-chief Jim Meigs talks about what makes great science journalism at Popular Mechanics. He talks ...
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 ...
Media vs. Government in Argentina: The Role English-Language News Plays in Today's Argentine Media Landscape
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research examines the current landscape of Argentine print media, and delves into the motivations of both pro-government and anti-government ...
"The Umbrella Revolution"? Globalization and political discourse in U.S. news magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In the spring semester of 2015, I participated in the Washington Program while I completed the professional project and research components of my ...
Backward in high heels: A critical discourse analysis of major news magazines covering Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
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 ...
Newsroom statistics in the digital age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
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 ...
Design studios' effects on the quality of design and communication at Gannett Daily newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
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 ...
Impact of Privacy Exemptions in Open Records Laws on Computer-‐assisted Reporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
As more and more personal data are collected and digitized by the government, the more restrictions there are on what reporters can access through open records laws. Every year sees new bills introduced restricting the ...
The balancing act of sex crimes reporting: A survey of journalists' responses to new standards for sexual assault coverage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This research examines how the journalistic community would respond to a new standard for mainstream news media's coverage of sexual assault. Through interviews with journalists experienced in covering sexual assault, this ...
What happened after #StandwithWendy? The impact of social media campaigns on gendered framing in coverage of women candidates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Social media is a fact of life in the modern media sphere and its impact on traditional journalism should be better understood. This project examined that relationship through the lens of gender, specifically the impact ...
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 ...