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Global Journalist: Illegal Immigration and Asylum Seekers
(2003)
On this July 3, 2003 program, journalists discuss the current state of illegal immigration, asylum seekers, and where they see future trends leading: specifically in regards to the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan....
Global Journalist: Estonia’s concern about Russia’s dominance and Iraq’ war
(2003)
Stuart Loory joins his audience all the way from Estonia, on Mar. 13, 2003. He and four Estonian journalists debate politics and organized crime in the Balkan region, and question what would the future look like after the imminent war in Iraq...
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 study uses a theoretical...
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...
National Agricultural and Texas Journalists' Attitudes Toward and Information Sources for Biotechnology Issues
(AgBioForum, 2006)
What sources of information do media professionals use, and what is the frequency of use, when covering agricultural biotechnology issues? Fifty Texas and 40 national agriculture journalists responded to this study. Respondents accepted genetic...
A world in flux : journalistic change in science journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
As modernity undergoes radical changes, a narrative of journalistic change has emerged in journalism research. One way that journalistic change has been conceptualized is in terms of a shift from a high modern to a liquid ethos (Deuze, 2005, 2017...
Journalism's lifeline : exploring an American aversion to government aid
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
. This underinvestment has resulted in growing news conglomerates, concentrating news media ownership, and proliferating news deserts. This reality leaves local communities without local newsrooms or local journalists, and desperately starved for quality news content...
Through the looking glass : role perceptions of long-form and commentary magazine journalists in the current state of U.S. democracy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
In a landscape where concerns over the state of U.S. democracy have risen, it's important to explore the perspectives of journalists tasked with the production of coverage in which democracy is a key theme and justification. This thesis asks how do...
Reddit news fandoms as digital news literacies: structuring the evaluation of information sources in a challenging information ecosystem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
between journalism and its audience as these environments also complicate that relationship. Reddit offers a visible look at the discursive labor of journalists and their audience as they apply their news literacies to work for journalism as critics...
The debate is dead : how journalists cover climate change now that false equivalence is uncommon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Exploring the intersections of advocacy, objectivity, and solutions reporting in environmental journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
journalists. In addition, this research explores in what ways, if any, the emergence of solutions journalism has led these journalists to transform their perceptions of advocacy and objectivity as related to their work. Findings show that the environmental...
In front of the lens : the expectations, experiences, and reactions of visual journalism's subjects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
the interaction between journalist and subject is extended and in-depth, sometimes it is brief and shallow, and sometimes, it is nonexistent. People are often reactive to cameras and tension can exist between the idealized ways people want to be depicted...
Saigon to Baghdad : comparing combat correspondents' experiences in Vietnam and Iraq
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This study compared the responses of journalists who covered the Vietnam War with responses of reporters who covered the conflict in Iraq to measure differences and similarities. The comparison showed that reporters working in Iraq faced more...
Government controls of American correspondents in China
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
of correspondents. Authoritarian controls and attempts to influence foreign reporters through public relations manipulation reveal a campaign by the Chinese government to shape its global image through international news. The methods used by correspondents to handle...
Blackouts made visible : a visual-textual analysis of Sarah Glidden's comics journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
the comics form to intervene in an ongoing debate over the field's normative values. Glidden pictures how journalism can be done differently and challenges mainstream conventions by constructing (1) a model of journalistic authority that refuses to cover over...
The business imperative of newsroom diversity: how identities influence Indonesian women media leaders' perceptions and implementation of newsroom changes and innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
positioned to lead newsroom diversity initiatives and thus remedy the situation. This study challenges such assumptions through in-depth interviews with 31 Indonesian women media leaders, focusing on their perspectives and experiences with diversity...
Elephant in the room : a study of the impact of emotional experiences on burnout among Chinese reporters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
-depth interviews with 31 reporters and a quantitative survey with 276 reporters was employed in the study. Findings from the in-depth interview demonstrate that reporters' emotional labor engagement mainly occurs while interacting with their subjects. In response...
Democracy beyond hard news: cultural journalism and the humanistic role
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This project makes the case that a new humanistic role should exist alongside the previously established monitorial, facilitative, radical, and collaborative journalistic roles outlined by Christians et al. (2009). Normative theory typically...
Journalistic norms, ethics, and practices at EWTN
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
How U.S. broadcast journalists cover news about Russia during American presidential
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
. This research shows a different approach of the American networks towards the coverage during the election process, meaning the coverage now includes not just domestic issues. Journalists are closely following the potential hostile actions of the Russian...