The dissemination of scientific advances in medicine became popular in television health news over the last few decades. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of news frames in television health news ...

Fifty years ago, women were largely confined to the home, and men were responsible for breadwinning. Today, many would suggest the genders are closer to being equals and that women can choose whatever life they want. This ...

As the cable television news industry enters its fourth decade of existence, are cable TV news broadcasters doing everything they can to hold on to viewers, and prevent losing audience market share to the almost ubiquitous ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The current study investigated the effects of video game role-play on the change in explicit and implicit evaluations of national groups using a video ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Broadcasting rights are a multi-million dollar investment made by a television network to secure exclusive rights to a sports or entertainment event. ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study explores how the news environment might affect the news framing of public health disasters. Specifically, it examines the coverage of the ...

This study analyzes website privacy policies used by major news corporations and attempts to understand the newsroom ethics policies as applied to protecting personal information collected about readers. The confluence of ...

For decades the news release has been a staple of public relations tool kits. But now with so much available information on the internet, there are options to enhance the traditional news release with supplements like links ...

This study investigates whether positive emotion-arousing ads following a corporate crisis can evoke positivity and repair attitude toward the brand. A fractional factorial experiment was conducted to examine participants' ...

This thesis explores how the publication of newspaper and magazine content across multiple platforms (print, web, mobile and/or tablet) is impacting editors in terms of time spent on traditional editing tasks, workload, ...

This research seeks to find out if the American hegemonic ideology was embedded in two Korean newspapers (conservative and progressive) during the U.S. financial crisis of 2008. In addition, it seeks to explore how American ...

The first decade of the twenty-first century was a time of transition for the journalism profession, and a time of economic struggle for news media organizations. A selection of editorial cartoons that constructed arguments ...

The thesis is an attempt to merge diffusion of innovations with contingency theory, and examine controversy on gene modification in European Union with the combined model. According to the combined theoretical model: the ...

This thesis studies whether women authors are disproportionately attacked and negatively affected by online reader comments. I designed a quantitative study that performed a content analysis of 1,600 reader comments posted ...

This study examines the choices of Public Relations practitioners in an agency setting to analyze their preferences for work-life balance and the domestic division of labor. The in-depth interviews of 10 practitioners were ...

The purpose of this study was to determine what effects, if any, the Hosty v. Carter decision had on the collegiate press in the Seventh Circuit. The researcher aimed to determine if student editors of newspapers at public ...

This study examined the relationship between the inclusion and style of advertising in tablet newspapers and user attitudes, including intention to adopt. The study created a mock newspaper app on an iPad with versions ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study viewed parents of prospective college students as a primary target of university reputation management efforts and explored their perception ...

Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) can come in multiple forms. Regardless of their nature being chemical, biological, nuclear, or high explosives, their use will disrupt normalcy and governance of nations. Application of ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Scholars have found that news organizations tend to frame American poverty as an urban problem, largely ignoring the plight of the rural poor. To gauge ...