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In the high country : crafting long-form stories on recreation and the environment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Magazine deck: The journalism profession needs to develop a process of best practices for avoiding cliche in environmental stories by treading a thin line between familiarity with a story arc that resonates with a reader ...
Editing and marketing a photography book
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Photojournalists often sacrifice their personal relationships, their health and sometimes even their lives to create compelling images that tell important stories. But if photography is not seen, then it cannot tell a ...
Framing same-sex marriage : a comparative textual analysis of Maryland newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
The framing of social issues in media coverage is an important and salient topic. In the 2012 elections, same-sex marriage was not yet Constitutionally protected and was on four states' ballots as a ballot measure. Newspaper ...
Investigative reporting, digital security and source protection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Obama administration has been historically unfriendly to journalists and their whistleblowing counterparts. The U.S. Department of Justice has ...
Collective cookbook : best practices in visual archiving between news organizations and individual collections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Newsroom research has begun to place a focus on digital news archival practices, attempting to identify ways to best preserve what many consider the first draft of history. This study refines the concept of archiving by ...
Digital decisions in the newsroom : the conceptualizations of digital producers and how that affects engagement and brand of the media's digital platforms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This professional analysis examines the answers of eleven digital producers across the United States and how the producers' conceptualizations ...
How sports audience build parasocial relationships with fans : a social media case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
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Automated techniques in small newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Message strategies and creative strategies of award-wining digital ads : an analysis of Addy Awards gold-winning digital
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
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A multimedia investigation of remittances sent to Guatemala and an exploration of ethics with comics journalism editors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
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A long hallway with many doors : access in documentary photography
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
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The critic crisis : the contemporary theater critic in American journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This analysis examines the role of the theater critic in contemporary journalism. Through lengthy semi-structured interviews with seven theater critics ...
From journalist to coder : the rise of journalist-programmers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This research examines how traditional journalists transitioned into journalist programmers. The researcher conducted semi-structured interviews of nine journalist programmers. The research identified three key findings: ...
Documentary cinema and the fictions of reality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The research portion of this project was motivated by the desire to understand the concepts in documentary films that address themes similar to those of my own film, namely the spatial perspective of development and ...
Burying Boeung Tompun : living in the way of development
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Three photographers were interviewed using in-depth, open-ended interviews. These three people include Peter DiCampo, Charles Fox, and Mary Beth Meehan. The interviewees discussed their long-term photographic projects and ...
Opening doors : how independent photojournalists gain access to sensitive stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
The Working Family is a photographic project documenting a low income family sustaining themselves on their meager wages in Los Angeles, CA. The project shows how wages and jobs affect a family's ability to care for one ...
Seeking the unheard voices of science : how science journalists consider diversity when finding sources
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Seven science journalists who write and edit for magazines agreed that science journalism has problems diversifying its sources, and they agreed that it mostly came down to a matter of time and resources. But if science ...
Data journalism at the Investigative Reporting Workshop and an examination of the Sunshine Law performance by state record custodians
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
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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 ...