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Examining the impact of Beijing 2008 Olympic games on foreign news coverage on China : a content analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Hosting the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games prompted the Chinese government to employ a relaxed foreign media policy, which signaled a temporary change in the rigorous media control practice in China. This study examined the ...
Following the money : how salient is media ownership information to U.S. citizens?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This qualitative study seeks to assess how significant media ownership information is to citizens' lives and to understand on what bases this information is salient for some citizens and not others. Ten respondents were ...
Irish newspapers and the Spanish Civil War
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 generated debate in the Irish Free State over how (or whether) the emerging nation should intervene in the conflict. Examination of the debate reveals a deeper discourse ...
Framing journalists' kidnappings : a textual analysis of news frames from U.S. and U.K. newspapers covering journalists' kidnappings in the Middle East
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] A textual analysis studied U.S. and U.K. newspaper articles written about journalists kidnapped while reporting in the Middle East to uncover news ...
It's about time : temporality in magazine feature stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The media play a role in socially constructing time, among other things. This textual analysis examines how the concept of time is used in 12 award-winning magazine feature stories. This study was conducted to better ...
Sacred space evaders : religious hegemony in gaming journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
In the modernist paradigm, the news is assumed to be secular, or rather, devoid of religious content. Recent research implies that in actuality, journalism contains latent religious values (Silk, 1995; Underwood, 2002). ...
Web analytics, social media, and the journalistic doxa : the impact of audience feedback on the evolving gatekeeping process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
New communication technologies have allowed not only new ways in which the audience interacts with the news but also new ways in which journalists can monitor online audience behavior. Through new audience information ...
Satisfaction and journalism: a study of newsroom happiness and its implications in print design
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The implementation of news design studios has sparked questions among news professionals. Little research has been done about the removal of the designers from the newsroom, and this could be some of the first academic ...
Gatekeeping and unpublishing : how editors make publishing and unpublishing decisions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Through in-depth interviews and qualitative analysis, this thesis studies decision-making within American newsrooms regarding the handling of unpublishing requests as well as the influences on editors' decision-making. The ...
Putting the best news forward: the influence of pressure to be a community booster on community newspaper gatekeepers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The purpose of this study was to examine whether newspaper editors feel pressure to be a community booster and how such pressure affects their gatekeeping process. The study used a qualitative method, consisting of ...
The use of Twitter as a news source in sports reporting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
State of play : the gatekeeping of micro-documentaries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The micro-documentary is a digital subgenre emerging from the overlap of longform documentary film, broadcast news, home video, advertising, and photojournalism. Despite technological advancements that have made video ...
Native advertising as a storytelling tool : framing of brand messages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The given study employed framing theory to analyze the content of 15 pairs of native advertisements and news stories from the New York Times to understand and compare framing of brand messages. Findings concerning framing ...
Understanding engagement: exploring how young non-professional journalists think about civic engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study explores the understanding young citizen journalists have of civic engagement. It is based upon 10 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with youth and community media participants, ages 18 to 25. Those interviews, ...
Poor media, rich democracy : how economics and technology affect construction of news processes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The journalism industry currently resides in a state of perpetual change, with technology and economics affecting both how journalists produce news and what news looks like when consumed. This ethnography examines the news ...
Ethics of filmmaker-subject relationships in documentaryEthics of filmmaker-subject relationships in documentary
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The relationship between filmmaker and subjects is one of the central issues in scholarly research of the documentary genre. It raises many ethical questions - is it possible to document the reality without intervening, ...
How small newspapers are innovating online
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This research focuses on what small newspapers are doing to innovate online and how they are able to do it. Interviews with 12 editors at small, community newspapers are conducted to examine the online features of their ...
Jokers, smokers and midnight tokers? : how television news framed pro-pot legislation in Oregon and Colorado before the November 6, 2012 elections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Local broadcast news and OTT streaming services : the institutional obstacles from an on-air to digital transition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The migration of legacy newscasts towards new delivery systems like OTTs has proven to be a slow process as both the legacy media institution and the new media institution face challenges in the ability to work together. ...
Journalists' use of newspaper comment sections in the newsgathering process
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
As computers and, increasingly, cell phones, are used by an ever growing percentage of the population, newspapers have turned to online comment sections accompanying articles as forums for readers to communicate. Journalists ...