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After the crop : the impact of downsizing on photojournalism quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
A content analysis (N=1,288) of four mid-size regional newspapers before and after periods of layoffs and workforce reduction showed that photographic quality had been negatively affected. Using the quantitative data, in-depth interviews were...
Media usage of journalism students of the University of Missouri--Columbia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
individuals. While online newspapers were the majority of respondents' primary source for world, political and business news, print newspapers were the primary source reported by the majority of respondents for local and regional news. In addition, print news...
Mizzou weekly (online version), volume 34, number 08
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Division of Marketing and Publications., 2012)
Understanding the change to integration : an organizational analysis of a small newspaper
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
This multimethod study examined change efforts to integration at a mid-sized family-owned newspaper as a new content-management system was implemented. Using the open systems model, the organization was analyzed through the lens of organizational...
The patriotic impact of World War I on the Texas Posten, a Swedish-language newspaper
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The Texas Posten, Austin's weekly Swedish-language newspaper, was in its 18th year when world war erupted in Europe. Like many Americans around the country, Texas Swedes heeded President Wilson's words of neutrality and later his encouragement...
Mizzou weekly, volume 34, number 16 (January 24, 2013)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2013)
Mizzou weekly, volume 34, number 08 (October 11, 2012)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2012)
College students' information search behavior for spring break: an exploration in the concept of specialization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
of specialization. The research investigated the perceived value of information content and information sources, and identified the main information sources used to obtain information for their recent spring break trip. The results indicated that the different...
The Press and Gettysburg
(2021)
This project surveys the development of the American press through the Civil War, with a focused examination of how the northern and southern presses covered the Gettysburg battle and broader campaign. It takes special care to consider the biases...
Pictures and pixels : digital photographic archives at newspapers, photographic agencies and libraries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
A survey (N = 167) and in-depth interviews were conducted to examine organizational influences on the diffusion of an innovation. Daily newspapers, historical libraries and museums and photographic agencies that handle editorial content were...
Mizzou weekly, volume 24, number 08 (October 17, 2002)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2002)
Do readers believe what they see? : reader acceptance of image manipulation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
in the local daily newspaper and how much they trust those images to truthfully depict the scene photograph. The study also looks for a correlation between a person's familiarity with imaging software and that person's views on, or expectations of, digital...
Seriously funny : a look at humor in televised presidential debates
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of this study is to understand how humor was used in U.S. Presidential Debates and what kind of coverage it garnered in the press. A content analysis was done on the general election presidential debates from 1960-2004 and a newspaper...
Cognitive processing of news as a function of structure : a comparison between inverted pyramid and chronology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Little has changed in how written news is structured, even as the newspaper industry changes dramatically. One of the most entrenched news routines, the inverted pyramid, continues to persist in both print and online news. This dissertation explored...
Mizzou weekly, volume 22, number 15
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2000)
On parents, peers, administrators, and advisers : developing a system to understand self-censorship of controversial topics in the high school press
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Two surveys of young college students (N1=134; N2=372) were used to examine what perceived familial and educational factors influenced former high school journalism students' comfort levels with controversial stories running in the student newspaper...
Mizzou weekly, volume 25, number 29 (April 29, 2004)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2004)
Bioethicists in the news : the evolving role of bioethicists as expert sources in science and medical stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
bioethicists are used most often, the perspectives they offer, and the roles they fill. This research uses news routines, news values, agenda-building theory and framing theory to examine the use of bioethicists as expert sources in six newspapers between 1992...
Bushwhacker Belles : Exploring Gender, Guerrilla Warfare, and the Union Provost Marshal Records
(2014-08-26)
records, and banishment orders. Other source material used to identify these women and their activities come from newspapers, memoirs by guerrillas, census records, and county histories. The website will collectively display and evaluate these documents...