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To infinity and beyond: An exploration of the impacts of technological and economic changes on journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The explosion of digital technologies, coupled with unfavorable economic conditions, has changed newspaper journalism in myriad ways. Converged online publications featuring photos, videos and graphics, which are assembled by fewer and fewer...
Poor media, rich democracy : how economics and technology affect construction of news processes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The journalism industry currently resides in a state of perpetual change, with technology and economics affecting both how journalists produce news and what news looks like when consumed. This ethnography examines the news construction processes...
Converting cultural capital to economic capital in the journalism field : content management in the newspaper business
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
of content, and the newspaper's economic capital, embodied in the organization's revenue. Interviews with the newspaper's executives revealed the organization's perception of quality journalism, resource allocation in content management, and the editorial...
Public schools in crisis: a content analysis of news framing since No Child Left Behind
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
despite schools facing the challenges of more economic and cultural diversity and increased accountability. In response, this study seeks to examine how the news media frame public education, particularly since the adoption of the federal No Child Left...
Framing of fisheries in collapse : a content analysis of two newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
of an economy frame and an ecology frame within the population, as manifested by the explicit terminology used in the texts. Contrary to expectations based on precedents in the literature, the newspapers did not overwhelmingly rely upon economic terms to explain...
Ideology of the air : communication policy and the public interest in the United States and Great Britain, 1896-1935
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
-profit commercial system while Great Britain developed a noncommercial public monopoly. This study explores the causes for these different outcomes with a focus on the different invocations of the "public interest" in policy debates. Through a lens of historical...
Investor publications' reporting on the Great Recession of 2007-2009
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Did investor publications--which brag that they give their readers the timely, accurate information they need to make the right decisions--accurately portray the beginning of the Great Recession of 2007-2009? To answer this question, this study...
Branding Ireland : an examination of the construction of Ireland’s national brand
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
are outdated and distorted. In today’s global economic environment, nations must be very conscious of the image they project to the world, because this has direct implications for a nation’s economic success. The objective of this research is to analyze how...
Framing public health disaster : Chinese newspaper coverage of the contaminated milk powder affair
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study explores how the news environment might affect the news framing of public health disasters. Specifically, it examines the coverage of the 2008 Chinese milk disaster...
The mutual shaping of technology in a news establishment : social journalism and organizational change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
of this news platform and related organizational change. I then ask if such a platform is sustainable economically and analyze institutional influences that may aid or inhibit growth. I also compare the model to the ideal models discussed and tested...
The media and the global-liberation movement :The magazine framing of the 2009 Pittsburgh, PA G-20 protesters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
From Sept. 24 to Sept. 25, 2009, the Group of 20 summit was held in Pittsburgh, Pa. The event brought in leaders from the most politically and economically powerful countries in the world, as well as protesters committed to the global...
Framing the US-China trade war : a content analysis of news frames used in the United States and Chinese media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
.S. unilateralism tarif policy. This study contributes to the framing pool of transnational economic conflict (including generic frames and issue-specific frames) and contextualization of results within the diplomatic relations and media system background....
A study of public opinion relative to organizations : reviewing representation of local media and nonprofit organizations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A case study reviewing a local media, its publication and presentation about a nonprofit organization and the similarly-named physical neighborhood it represents. This research...
Concentration and consolidation : how chain ownership affects newspaper front-page content
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Ownership by newspaper chains in the United States has become the norm, rather than the outlier, in the past half-century. While proponents of this model of ownership claim that chain newspapers are no different from ...
When hegemony prevails : a discourse analysis of two Korean newspapers during the 2008 financial crisis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
, the Korean newspapers seem to consider it natural that the Korean economic situation is and will be automatically conditioned by the development of the U.S. economy, which was quite different from reality....
Proactive environmental risk communication : multiple publics' evaluation of for-profit corporations' sustainability communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
, this study showed that corporate sustainability communication (CSC) is more effective in receiving multiple publics' (both students and science reporters) positive evaluations than a denial discourse on potential environmental risk issues that have not yet...
Online feminist publications as social enterprises: Diversifying revenue streams through corporate social responsibility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This qualitative study examined how feminist online publications can adopt social enterprise business models. The focus group analysis of the audiences of Refinery29, Bustle, HelloGiggles, and Jezebel first explored the audience's outlook...
This is not a moment. This is a movement : how national newspapers reported 2015 protests against racism at the University of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
's death, which had garnered favorable public attention. Communications professor Melissa Click derailed national coverage at MU, however, prompting the newspapers to rely more heavily on the paradigm in their follow-up coverage of the protests....
The role of work preferences in the disparity between females in public relations and females leading public relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This study examines the choices of Public Relations practitioners in an agency setting to analyze their preferences for work-life balance and the domestic division of labor. The in-depth interviews of 10 practitioners were used to add...
Online media attribution of pipeline infrastructure failure, sourcing and the public health model: a content analysis of news stories on water and wastewater pipeline failures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The following study is a content analysis on how online media covers pipeline failure in North America. It uses the Public Health Model of Reporting, Sourcing and Attribution Theory to answer questions related to the cause and consequences...