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How to create visual identity in publications: Vox Magazine and beyond
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] While editors of a publication are often seen as main decision-makers for the content of a publication, the art director's design choices are just as ...
Intersecting parallels : examining the different factors that contribute to how Palestinian-Israeli and Israeli women view themselves and each other through the use of photo elicitations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Abstract: Six women of different ethnic and religious backgrounds were photographed living everyday life in Haifa, Israel during the summer ...
My quest for my (Southern) voice in narrative writing
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
A writer's voice creates the relationship between readers and the page. It's a conversation that the writer has with readers. And it's a writers signature, a personal identifier. Because voice is rendered by the collective ...
What we talk about when we talk about climate change : storytelling in the anthropocene
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Fifty years ago, a scientific advisory committee informed President Lyndon B. Johnson about the threat of climate change, writing, "Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment," and we've been grappling ...
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 ...
Documenting Trenton : editing and design of the 65th Missouri Photo Workshop photo book
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Every day hundreds of millions of photographs are produced around the world, yet only a tiny fraction ever get published. The mass media ...
South African journalists' perspectives on Chinese media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] China's engagement with African media is widely perceived to be a part of the nation's effort to gain economic and political favor through soft power. ...
Eat local, shop local ... give local: small nonprofits can capitalize on millennial cohort's core value of civic-mindedness by emphasizing local ties
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The competition for donors is fiercer than ever as the nonprofit sector continues to expand. And, as the existing donor base ages, it becomes ...
Transition to democracy: role conception of investigative journalists in South Africa during and after apartheid, Washington program, South African program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research study contributes to a body of work looking at investigative journalists' role conception in South Africa. This research is primarily ...
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 ...
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 ...
Women in sports journalism: hiring practices through a feminist lens
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This research was designed to find out how women are evaluated during the hiring process for positions in sports broadcast journalism. Interviews with a talent agent for broadcast news personnel, with the associate managing ...
Federal reserve chairs in the news: in-depth interviews with financial reporters on their coverage of Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
This project examines how Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and Chairman Ben Bernanke were covered in the news. This was analyzed and is relevant because of the historical significance of Chair Yellen's nomination and ...
Lessons from the financial crisis: what have we learned? Business journalists speak out
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The 2008 global financial crisis sparked a growing appetite for business news and proved that it's now more important than ever to hold companies and governments accountable, and make the complex dealings of a new global ...
Changing times in rural Alaska
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
In rural Alaska, bush pilots play a vital role "transporting people, cargo, and goods from cities to far-flung villages. In the past, they've also taken newspapers. But that all changed when the Internet came to town, in ...
Covering business, economics and central banking with the Federal Reserve's increasing transparency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
In the past 30 years, the Fed has gone from a mysterious institution to a more transparent central bank that regularly communicates with the media and the public. This journalism practice and professional analysis looked ...
Exploring the relationship between international news and foreign policy : how the New York Times, The Xinhua News Agency and Itar-Tass differed in their coverage on the Ukraine crisis?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Throughout the research component of my master's professional project, I sought to effectively capture the relationship between international news coverage and foreign policies of a country through studying the sourcing ...
UNICEF's Tap Project : an analysis of western representation of third world others and their environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study examines the representations of Third World Others and their environment in the United Nation Children's Fund (UNICEF)'s online Tap Project ...