Search
Now showing items 1-20 of 71
Elephant in the room : a study of the impact of emotional experiences on burnout among Chinese reporters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This dissertation is conceived to examine the emotional labor of Chinese frontline reporters and its effects on their job burnout. For both detailed descriptive and generalizable findings, the mixed-method approach combining qualitative in...
Newsroom decisions and autonomy in Missouri newspaper's abortion reporting in spring 2019
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
The purpose of this research is to explore how newspaper journalists in Missouri covered the abortion issue around May 2019. Although research on abortion reporting and journalistic theories have been developed, not all previous research has...
Long violent history : the news values of the Blackjewel coal miner protest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
by content analysis. I compared the analysis of what the journalists thought they portrayed in their writing, and what actually appeared. Ultimately, I found that while the reporters I interviewed had fine-tuned control over depicting the conflict and impact...
Breaking into the boys' club : an analysis of the experiences of women journalists entering the sports journalism arena
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Historically, women sports journalists encounter frequent instances of objectification, harassment, and discrimination from sources, colleagues, and higher ups (Hardin & Shain, 2005), and women in the current sports journalism industry remain...
Understanding the impact of Artificial Intelligence on newsroom social culture and journalistic performative roles : a qualitative case study of AI as an emerging digital innovative technology in newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
technology may influence sociocultural perceptions and behavior in U.S. and UK-based news reporters and their semi-automated newsrooms by comparing present-day news reporters and newsrooms against the behavior of news reporters and newsrooms at the start...
Princes, rock stars and their wives : analyzing tabloid coverage of women married to celebrity men
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
has approached covering Linda and Meghan. It examines how tabloid reporters constructed the life stories of the women for audiences and how the women have reacted to it in interviews. Spanning across decades from late 1960's to early 2020's, the paper...
Exploring the view from nowhere : studying how journalists of color see traditional objectivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
After Donald Trump's rise to power, many journalists began to reconsider the role that objectivity plays in reporting. Trump's candidacy was filled with scandals, inflammatory statements, falsehoods and attacks on the mainstream media. The news...
Journalists' role conceptions in covering sexual violence post-Weinstein
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Since the publication of The New York Times article on Harvey Weinstein, journalists across the United States have had to adapt to a new reporting climate as it has evolved under the influence of the #MeToo movement. This thesis explores...
News framing and public approval of the tax cuts and jobs act
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This study is a content analysis of 291 news articles from the New York Times and the Associated Press about the debate and passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. This study looks at how the news framing and economic ...
Investing in newsrooms during the layoff era
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Local newspapers around the country are in trouble. But as the primary source of information in many of the communities they represent, these organizations provide valuable spaces for the exchange of ideas and information. ...
Analyzing access: an analysis of food desert coverage during COVID-19
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This study explored the ways in which food desert coverage was reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the research was to analyze reporting patterns such as themes, use of race, and sourcing practices to understand the journalistic...
The guerrilla in town : influences on content production in exiled media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
On 21 June 2011 Reeyot Alemu was detained by the Federal Police and later was charged with terrorism and sentenced for five years. Her detention is one of the several incidents in Ethiopia that illustrate how journalists function in their daily...
Journalism's lifeline : exploring an American aversion to government aid
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Journalism is experiencing an existential crisis. The U.S. has assigned to free-market capitalism a task that it is incapable of achieving to the degree that benefits the public and democracy: investing in journalism as a ...
Reddit news fandoms as digital news literacies: structuring the evaluation of information sources in a challenging information ecosystem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Journalism is in crisis. There is consensus that this crisis is driven by four principal factors -- the overcrowded media sphere, the failing funding model of news, declining trust in media, and growing partisanship among ...
Internal crisis communication : the effects of negative employee-organization relationships and negative emotions on reputation and employees' unsupportive behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study examines the role that negative employee-organization relationships (NEORs) play in determining crisis outcomes (organization's internal reputation and employees' unsupportive behavior). Moreover, the study aims ...
Will the new German man please stand? Hegemonic masculinity in Nazi propaganda and German cinema
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
, 2005), and hyper-masculinity (Jewkes et al., 2015) respectively are presented and established in the front that the films execute. These types of hegemonic masculinity become the subject of critique as the decorum of the film shifts from the front...
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)
News organizations tend to preserve male-dominated organizational culture and have been historically oriented to serve the male reader market. This, however, stifles innovation and fails to respond to rapid changes in the ...
To quit or not to quit : voluntary turnover among Millennial English-language journalists in Indonesia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This qualitative study investigates the voluntary turnover and job satisfaction among millennial English-language journalists in Indonesia in order to understand why young journalists leave their news organization or ...
Media framing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Changes to the U.S. tax system can have significant impacts on individuals, and the media is often where the public turns to for information and ...
Approachable or appropriative? Black Americans' perceptions of codeswitched advertisements using African American Vernacular English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The present qualitative study investigated the phenomenon of using cultural dialect African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in codeswitched advertising by gathering Black American perceptions related to this semiotic ...