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Political reporters' self-perception on social media : a study of the Los Angeles times Washington Bureau
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This case study examines how journalists express their professional and personal identities on social media by looking into a subset of political ...
Practical and ethical dilemmas in presenting investigative reporting through individual anecdotes and investigative reporting fellowship at the Oregonian
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
consistently shown that anecdotes are powerful tools - far more powerful than statistics or other basic information in an article -for shaping public perception. Anecdotes can exaggerate reader perceptions about societal problems and distort perceptions about...
Islam and the West : how do background and experience influence how photojournalists cover Muslims? Professional project in three parts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
photojournalists who cover international events in Brussels, Belgium, to discover whether their publication process allowed for this bias; whether it influenced the type of images they created/submitted for publication and whether 9/11 had any impact. Although...
Generational differences in the news media regarding an individual's right to privacy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
statistical results from questions dealing with personal finance, sexual orientation and victims of sexual assault. Strong statistical results were not gathered from respondents where the questions involved domestic violence and personal photos of public...
Being there : a study of American foreign correspondents in Brussels and an intership with Thomson Reuters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
-- most journalists in the world and this paper shows that very few dedicated American publications have reporters in Brussels. The paper describes the challenges of reporting from a jargon -- filled bureaucratic capital and how that makes the reporters...
Perspectives from the second generation of the Chinese community in Buenos Aires and a comparison of Spanish and Chinese newspaper portrayals of the Chinese community in Argentina
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project was done through the Missouri School of Journalism's Buenos Aires Program. The main result is a feature article with photographs that ...
Narrative sweat and flow : the challenge and fulfillment of covering sensitive social issues
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Long-form narrative writers who immerse themselves in other lives and situations to cover social issues have one of the hardest jobs in journalism. They take on difficult, often heart-wrenching subjects, and tell stories ...
Growing an online audience for rich media : how the photography departments at the South Florida Sun- Sentinel and The Denver Post cultivated an online audience for multimedia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the height of newsroom layoffs, The Denver Post photography department found a way to attract millions of new viewers to their website by pushing for more visual, organized, quality photographs, videos and multimedia ...