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Data as medium : quality control in data journalism practice
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Data is the medium of data journalism. As such, professional practitioners treat data as a communication process and storytelling form. This pragmatic, relational...
Vanity fair vs. Santa Barbara magazine : how does national versus regional society and celebrity coverage differ specifically in depictions of food, wine and entertaining?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] My research question was: How does national versus regional society and celebrity coverage differ specifically in depictions of food, wine ...
What constitutes credibility? : an anlysis of fitness influencer credibility on Instagram
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
. Influencers are recruited to distribute information and recommendations to their following about these companies. This is because influencers add value to a company’s social network. It is one of the main reasons why companies across the globe are using...
Building datasets from scratch : data journalists offer best practices based on their experiences
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.]
Gender imbalances in sourcing for national security and foreign affairs reporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.]
Rick Santorum's Catholicism and wedge issues : a content analysis of religion coverage in major U.S. newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Little scholarly research has been conducted about how journalists report on religion during a political campaign. Even so, there is evidence to suggest religion plays a major role in voting patterns in an election. Journalists, however, often avoid...
Pleasing a crowd : how social media and the sports entertainment industry has impacted affected sports journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
publications about how the evolution of social media and the sports entertainment industry has affected the content they produce. This project resulted in some informed reflections about the future of sports journalism as well as best practices for newer...
The inbox as a newsstand : extracting value from email newsletters in journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
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Between two worlds: Native American representation in print media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
To understand the state of Native American representation at both a regional and national level in print journalism this research applied a thematic analysis to the news and feature articles of the Oregonian and the New York Times published between...
Prioritizing the victim over the story : conservative media coverage vs. liberal media coverage of sexual violence in the United States of America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
News reports on sexual violence in the United States of America have been known to cause more harm than good. In this qualitative study, semi-structured interviews will be conducted to interpret the differences between the ...
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)
The project examines the provisions of the Ley Federal de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública Gubernamental, Mexico's progressive freedom of information law. The law is considered one of the most progressive transparency laws...
Islam and the West : how do background and experience influence how photojournalists cover Muslims? Professional project in three parts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
that personal bias can influence the type of news published and it posits that Western media typically approaches this minority group in a very Orientalist way, categorizing them in negative terms. Using textual analysis, I compared the interviews of three...
Avoiding misleading maps : encoding and decoding 2018 midterm election results in graphics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)