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Investigating the organizational decision making responsible for corporate social responsibility initiatives
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
to evaluate how corporate/nonprofit relationships create value for each respective organization. Examining CSR within this context allows for a deeper, more nuanced understanding of how firms can gain social capital while improving societal affairs. The ethics...
A world in flux : journalistic change in science journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
, audience, power, time, and ethics (Deuze, 2005; Carpentier, 2005; Hanitzsch, 2007; Koljonen, 2013). By exploring the nature of journalistic change in science journalism from 2013-2017, it is possible to further understand the current state of journalism...
After the crop : the impact of downsizing on photojournalism quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
A content analysis (N=1,288) of four mid-size regional newspapers before and after periods of layoffs and workforce reduction showed that photographic quality had been negatively affected. Using the quantitative data, ...
Examining the effects of the Hosty v. Carter decision and prior restraint on the collegiate press : a qualitative study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
, Indiana and Illinois had encountered instances of prior restraint and were self-censoring or altering the tone of their writing to avoid prior restraint. Through a series of in-depth interviews with eight student editors, the researcher found that members...
The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
-order concepts of uncertainty and relevance, can be applied to intermedia agenda setting. A separate conceptualization of reporters' need for orientation toward issues, toward frames, and toward evaluations found little support. A content analysis of political...
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 the scientific...
Angling the truth : how sponsored content and media framing impact the charter school movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
focus groups where 24 participants were asked to read two articles- one written by a journalist, one written by a sponsored content provider. From there, users were asked a series of semi-structured questions related to the articles in order to access...
Lines in the sand : navigating native advertising through magazine professionals' policies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Informed by the persuasion knowledge model and advertising ethics theory, this research uses a representative case study to qualitatively analyze both (1) 176 native...
Blackouts made visible : a visual-textual analysis of Sarah Glidden's comics journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
deep epistemological uncertainties and (2) a complex ethics and aesthetics of listening. In addition, this thesis reads Rolling Blackouts through the lens of postcolonial theory, analyzing the way Glidden brings journalistic abstractions into contact...
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...
Role of the media during political events in authoritarian, democratization and democratic periods in Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This research examined the role of the media during three different significant events in political transitions in Korea, namely the Kwangju massacre of 1980, the democratic elections of 1987, and the candlelight protests ...
Congress in the mass media : how the West Wing and traditional journalism frame Congressional power
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Congress is often overshadowed by the presidency in the mass media, and research into portrayals of Congress in the mass media is limited. This study seeks to add to existing scholarship on Congress in the mass media and ...
Trained to censor? : a study of student expression issues in Missouri principal preparation programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
analyzed to determine the amount of time devoted to student expression issues and the instruments used to measure pupil performance. Second, in-depth interviews were conducted with a sample of six school law instructors to explore their attitudes about...
God's words in the language of men : the professionalization of the Southern Baptist Press
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Although religion is and has been an integral aspect of society, its journalism has been overlooked. Media scholars have viewed the religious press as less worthy and less professional than its commercial counterparts, ...
The battle within : a mixed methods exploration into political journalism and role strain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
Research into journalistic roles has received world-wide attention. What tends to be underrepresented in these studies are the challenges that journalists must overcome in fulfilling their idealized roles. Therefore, this ...
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 ...
Reporting from the front : a textual analysis of embedded reporting in the New York Times
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
analyzed 90 articles in the New York Times written by staff reporters embedded with American military units in Iraq between May 1, 2003, and December 31, 2008. The results show that the framing of the reports shifted significantly after the invasion...
Indicators of journalistic role performance on Last Week Tonight
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
successor to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, frequently devotes the majority of its half-hour, once-a-week program to conducting a deep-dive on an issue, sometimes independently of the weekly news cycle. Using field theory as a framework, this study...
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)
in the U.S. stories indicated the existence of market logic. The American articles justified the tarif policy by emphasizing China's unfair trade practices and structural issues. By contrast, China media blamed trade confrontation by criticizing the U...
Responsibility framing and the Obama health care reform bill
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The purpose of this research was to examine early online news coverage of the Obama health care reform bill by both Foxnews.com and MSNBC.com. The study aimed to look at framing techniques and whether or not these ...