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Cowboys And Congress: The Dallas Morning News' Washington Bureau
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
statehouse reporters from newspapers across the country were interviewed in a purposive sample. To cope with declining numbers and increasing reporting and writing duties, statehouse reporters rely more on wire services and staff back at their organization...
Competitor and ally: the Texas Tribune's impact on a depleted Austin press corps
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
By allowing for-profit media companies to run its content for free, the Texas Tribune positioned itself as a polarizing figure. On one hand, it is a fierce competitor to the state's largest newspapers, wielding a deep and vigorous reporting staff...
Facing the pressure : HIPAA hampers health reporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.]
Reporting live "On hair"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] When observing the on-air hairstyles for Black women television anchors in the United States, it's commonly the same look: straight or ...
Successful digital strategies of five large- and small-circulation city magazines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Evidence shows there is no "one size fits all" approach to the digital strategies of city and regional magazine websites. With small budgets and few online-only staff members, editors must consider how and when they want to disseminate content...
What are the differences and similarities in the use of social video on the part of a Legacy Newsroom and Digital Native News Organization : the projects analyzes video strategy used by The Washington Post and Vox.com
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
tools have been used, and what digital reporters see as their future. By conducting in-depth interviews with video directors and digital reporters from both companies, the researcher found that due to a smaller staff and fewer resources Vox.com has...
How social media are changing the way business journalists do their jobs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This professional project seeks to answer the question of how social media are changing business reporters' sourcing practices. In the past, reporters depended on face-to-face interviews or email. With the popularity of social media in the newsrooms...
Barriers to media coverage of Myanmar since the military coup began
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 7/1/2023] Myanmar's political reforms from 2011 to 2015 marked the country's new beginning after almost five decades of military dictatorship and provided a ray of hope for Myanmar citizens and refugees in the U.S. However...
"Ask the experts": the role of the advisory board at Women's Health and its impact on the magazine's health coverage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
and the importance of being more than just a list of names and impressive credentials on the masthead. This paper affects the women's health magazine industry by examining the advisory board, a part of the magazine staff that is not typically studied or given much...
Data journalism at the Investigative Reporting Workshop and an examination of the Sunshine Law performance by state record custodians
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.]
An observation of NPR member stations and how locally sourced stories give national influence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.]
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 ...
We can work it out : understanding local and national collaborative reporting projects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
It is no secret how drastically the field of journalism has changed within the last several decades. And as resources dwindle in newsrooms across the country, collaboration has emerged as one way to counteract economic ...
Redesign to Reconnect: How magazines are using redesigns as a tool to build a stronger relationship with their readerships
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Interviews with key staff who spearheaded the redesigns of five national magazines support the idea that magazine redesigns were conducted to connect better with the readership. Their explanation behind design decisions and motivation for doing a...
The most powerful weapon : a blended narrative on the beginning of the University of Missouri South Africa education program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This analysis shows the strengths and limitations of the Creatavist web-based content management system as illustrated by three online magazines. Created by the online media company, The Atavist, the Creatavist platform allows for magazine-style multimedia content. The Atavist, in turn, licenses its content management system to other magazines and journalists, solving the common problem that many online magazines share, namely a lack of resources to create their own content management systems. The California Sunday Magazine, Longform.org, and Tablet magazine all use the Creatavist content management system in different ways, and presented different challenges through the development of their online presence. Creatavist has enabled them to make more multimedia packages than they could have without it, and without hiring several developers....
and liberation. This project will help me in goals to become a staff photojournalist at a newspaper by demonstrating that I can create complex multimedia.--Chapter 1....
and liberation. This project will help me in goals to become a staff photojournalist at a newspaper by demonstrating that I can create complex multimedia.--Chapter 1....
Exploring the process of an obstacles to hiring foreign-born journalists in American newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
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The challenges of access to college athletes
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
News media access to college student-athletes has been a source of contention over the past twenty years. While the media had unlimited access to athletes in the past, reporters now must jump through metaphorical hoops in order to speak with them...
A small town with big ideas : editing and designing the cuba mpw 68 photo book & how visual editing affects the audience's perception Of photographic content
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
the audience that is consuming the content. Reaching almost seven decades, MPW has been renowned for bringing together photographers from around the world to work with a select staff of professional photojournalists who are devoted to the education of our field...
The burden of talent : examining the impact of media coverage on the performance and mental health of young Bulgarian soccer players
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
footballers, aged 18 to 25, revealed that the most common method athletes use to minimize the influence of sports reporting on their focus and well-being is avoiding the news as much as possible. The study also revealed that the relationship between...
Factors that make journalists change hypotheses during investigations
(University of Missouri--ColumbiaUniversity of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Journalists always go into investigative reporting with hypotheses, but few researchers have studied how journalists change their hypotheses when working on investigative stories. This research, through in-depth interviews with 14 journalists, found...