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The Ryan Ferguson case: an examination of a strange murder and conviction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
There is no longer any question that wrongful convictions for serious criminal offenses can occur. Indeed, some such cases have been unearthed by enterprising journalists. Though uncovering injustice after it has occurred has value, a perhaps more...
Birth controlled: A case study of 2014 contraception news frames
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
. This research examines how Fox News and CNN politicized and polarized contraception by reporting on court cases. This case study intends to highlight how news organizations employed frames that further politicized and polarized a contraception over the course...
Data Journalism at the Las Vegas Sun
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
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 importance of online...
Case studies of investigative non-profit and public radio collaborations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
. In this article, reporters and editors from across the country weigh in with their tips to help smooth the bumps in the road that new partnerships experience. This article features voices from NPR, the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), KPBS and inewsource in San...
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 public access to data...
Reporting live "On hair"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] When observing the on-air hairstyles for Black women television anchors in the United States, it's commonly the same look: straight or ...
Facing the pressure : HIPAA hampers health reporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
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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 ...
Manipulating the Mexican press : the Mexican government's regulatory role in freedom of information, gatekeeping and eliciting self-censorship among the press
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
fulfill their role in society, ” and says these expectations become “normative pointers,” that shape media behaviors. Forms of government feedback enforce these intrinsic “pointers” which arise in newsrooms, during the reporting process...
How social media are changing the way business journalists do their jobs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This professional project seeks to answer the question of how social media are changing business reporters' sourcing practices. In the past, reporters depended on face-to-face interviews or email. With the popularity of social media in the newsrooms...
Federal reserve chairs in the news: in-depth interviews with financial reporters on their coverage of Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
driving factors of news coverage. Journalists drive the narrative of stories by highlighting or excluding certain information. The fact that a bias was not prominent in how reporters cover the chairs of the Fed is a striking outcome in itself. The results...
Internet regulations and independent news organizations in Indonesia, the Philippines and South Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Twelve years later, with no end in sight : an analysis of seven crime reporters in Mexico
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
and international reporters. In addition to the professional analysis, my unrelated independent project, a magazine story on the first federal female genital mutilation case in U.S. history, is included....
Designer Involvement Pays Off for Newspapers' Digital Editions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
There are tangible benefits for newsrooms that involve editorial designers in the development of digital editions. This was a key finding in a case study of four large American news organizations, including the Los Angeles Times, Virginian...
Practical and ethical dilemmas in presenting investigative reporting through individual anecdotes and investigative reporting fellowship at the Oregonian
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
of investigative journalism? I pursued this question via interviews with working journalists, and in the process also gauged the degree to which investigative reporters consider framing when using anecdotal leads and crafting articles. Media studies have...
Automated techniques in small newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Take us with you : disclosing newsgathering in investigative podcasts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
What happened after #StandwithWendy? The impact of social media campaigns on gendered framing in coverage of women candidates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
are difficult to objectively measure, in this case the social activity around one campaign cemented a narrative of the candidate that resulted in a higher rate of gendered framing in newspaper articles....
Framing within a framework : how producers of televised presidential debates understand the role they play in the democratic process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
, while taking special care to give candidates the opportunity to make or break their case to the American public without undue influence....
We can work it out : understanding local and national collaborative reporting projects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
It is no secret how drastically the field of journalism has changed within the last several decades. And as resources dwindle in newsrooms across the country, collaboration has emerged as one way to counteract economic ...