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Gatekeeping practices for online visual news : a content analysis of YouTube news videos on the Voice of America Mandarin Service
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Voice of America (VOA) Mandarin Service is one of language programs of the VOA funded by the United States governments. It has been ...
Group ideology of foreign conflict journalists : values and professional role
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Media scholars argue that journalistic values for a long time were analyzed within a Western framework where media is perceived as contributing to ...
The right way to be wrong : a search for the ideal online corrections policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There is wide variance in how news organizations handle online corrections. Some follow expansive, transparent policies; others handle ...
Rape stories in Pakistan the flaws in the TV coverage : reasons and solutions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
According to a report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, in 2015, 423 rapes and 304 incidents of gang rapes were reported in Pakistan. It's an ongoing issue in this part of the world that needs better media coverage. ...
The Ryan Ferguson case: an examination of a strange murder and conviction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
There is no longer any question that wrongful convictions for serious criminal offenses can occur. Indeed, some such cases have been unearthed by enterprising journalists. Though uncovering injustice after it has occurred ...
Missouri National Guard Crisis Response in the Age of Instant Communication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Weighing the potential benefits of building a social media presence against the potential dangers inherent in such engagements, this project makes the case that military leaders and public affairs officers need to integrate ...
There's no crying in sports journalism: a qualitative study on reporter burnout
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This research set out to investigate the causes of burnout in sports journalism. Sports journalists working in a mid-sized market in the Midwest were the primary focus for this research. The age and gender of the participants ...
Framing Ferguson: a content analysis of St. Louis news media coverage of the Ferguson protests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The killing of black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014 sparked protests that thrust the St. Louis suburb into the national media spotlight. Since then, similar protests ...
How do we measure the impact of an investigative story? : impact measurement at WFAA-TV in Dallas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Creating impact is the number one goal of an investigative piece and simply defining this six-letter word is a highly discussed topic. But, here's the problem: how do you define impact? How do you measure it? Speaking with ...
Migrant mother, sister, daughter : women immigrants in the Bel Paese
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
This project is comprised of two parts, a reporting project published on Medium about the lives of women migrants in Italy and a professional analysis of the practices of multilingual international journalists. The reporting ...
Journalism in an emerging power : how the roles of journalists are evolving in India
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Aware that independent journalism is at risk in their country, seven Indian journalists from different cultural and professional backgrounds discuss how they perceive their role in India's current political and economic ...
Promotional strategies of media startup companies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Media startup companies are small. There are many platforms they can utilize to gather more readership. Social media accounts are a kind of owned media with lower costs. There are also paid platforms companies can use to ...
The international news publications' coverage of China's recent economic slowdown
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There has been significant media coverage about the slowdown of the Chinese economy in the past year and a half. However, the attitudes that media ...
Release, rewrite, recycle : how journalists take news releases and turn them into news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] News releases from governments, public relations professionals and enterprising individuals can be tantalizing grapes for story-hungry ...
How we remember the 9/11 attacks changed in public radio talks from 2001 to 2011
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The collective memories of the 9/11 attacks provide a context to understanding and analyzing post-9/11 policies, the war on terror and how safe America ...
Local TVs engage audience through Facebook : the practice and the effect
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This analysis looks at the audience engagement efforts and effects on the Facebook pages of the local television stations in the mid-Missouri ...
Western journalists in China : journalistic practice and role perceptions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In the era of growing globalization, media outlets are investing in a vigorous expansion of their international news coverage. Major Western media ...
The challenges of reporting on poverty
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Reporters who cover poverty face unique challenges, such as finding stories, making their stories compelling for middle-class readers, avoiding the ...
How university public relations departments choose medical research to promote
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Research actively promoted by universities is much more likely to gain mainstream news coverage than other research. A close look at how such promoted ...
Cooking up a sports feature story: dissecting the writer-editor decisions and operations that lead to sports features making it to publication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
As story structures and distribution models in journalism change, storytelling remains a valuable asset to writers and editors, especially in sports departments. But before you can tell a story, you need a topic. I aimed ...