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Demystifying the private sector : the use of publicly accessible records to report on private equity firms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The purpose of this research is to provide journalists with the tools necessary to report on private equity firms, a notoriously opaque sector of the economy. Private equity firms exert a large amount of influence on the ...
A textual analysis of feminist journalism coverage of the #MeToo movement in Ms. and Jezebel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Since October 2017, many people have shared their experiences as sexual assault survivors on social media using #MeToo, and the #MeToo movement has been covered extensively by media outlets. The purpose of this qualitative ...
Breaking into the boys' club : an analysis of the experiences of women journalists entering the sports journalism arena
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
utilizing Joan Acker's theory of gendered organizations to analyze gendered practices within the field. Challenges experienced by new women sports journalists found in this research suggest ongoing explicit and implicit genderbased harassment, discrimination...