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Elevating the news :how engagement editors assess success in their community engagement efforts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Community engagement is a news industry buzzword that has recently seen professionalization in newsrooms in the form of a community engagement editor. Little research has been done on this type of editor and how they know ...
Filling the statehouse void :the ideology of online non-profit news sites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The number of traditional news reporters present in state capitols is decreasing across the United States. Non-traditional online news organizations are attempting to fill that void. These entities, many of them non-profit ...
Reporting complex legal issues: an examination of the reportage on Citizens United and ACA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study looked at the reportage of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius from the New York Times, the USA Today and The Washington Post. Through the ...
Editing for taste in a 24-hour news cycle : balancing immediacy and sensationalism against the role of the journalist in the case of Nodar Kumaritashvili
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This single case study examined the ethical decision making process involved in the decision to publish or withhold disturbing images of Nodar Kumartashvili's fatal luge accident during the 2010 Olympics. Interviewing a ...
Qualitative analysis of the impact of a mass shooting on a broadcast journalist
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This research examines the impact of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting on first-responding journalists, focusing on their professional lives and reporting techniques. The research was completed using a qualitative ...
A look at how newspaper editors and advertising sales executives communicate : where does the wall stand?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study examined how management executives from news and advertising departments at daily print newspaper organizations see their own roles, as well as how aware they are of what is going on in the other department. ...
A content analysis of reproductive health articles in Jezebel.com and Glamour.com
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study explored health coverage by the popular women's websites Glamour.com and Jezebel.com from May through October 2012. In these months preceding the November 2012 U.S. election, the media frequently referenced "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 ...
Bridging the visual-verbal divide in college mass communications programs
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Today, all communications products are multimodal, employing a variety of communications techniques, from writing to graphics (and more), in one product. ...
Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
During the Second World War, the American journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht had been one of the lone voices to break the silence about the Nazi Holocaust. Then, in 1947, Hecht shocked and outraged people across the ...
Trolls under the bridge :anonymous online comments and gatekeeping in the digital realm
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This research examines the trend of anonymous online speech and the evolution of traditional gatekeeping roles of journalists as new media interaction with the public becomes commonplace. A textual analysis explores the ...
"Acting white" on social media : a study of African Americans' racial identity performance on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Acting White" exists within minority communities across North America and the globe as a scarlet letter of shame to those perceived as performing an ...
Enabled and constrained : culture, ethics and structuration in an advertising agency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Understanding the complexity of advertising ethics mandates an organizational approach to empirical research. Organizational culture affords attention to not only the advertising practitioner's perspectives of ethics, but ...
Strategic English: linguistic framing as strategic communication in the EU political arena
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The research presented here examines lobbyists' language choices in strategic communication within the EU political arena. Framing theory and code ...
A study of the New York Times' coverage of a poetic response to the Ocean Hill-Brownsville School conflict :how a conflict can be framed by the media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In the aftermath of a bitter, three-month-long teachers' strike, a New York City public school teacher read an anti-Semitic poem over the radio that was written by one of his students in response to the impact the strikes ...
Exploring how female public relations managers in higher-education institutions gain influence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study explored how female public relations (PR) managers working in higher-education institutions perceive that they gain influence in their jobs as communicators. To this end, the researcher conducted 12 semi-structured ...
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 ...
Effectiveness of health messages based on the transtheoretical model from a public campaign perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study applied the transtheoretical model (TTM) to public health campaign messages to promote regular exercise. Recognizing that one of the key ...
Priming the reflexive canvas of the mind in a them/us reality a study of priming ethnic stereotypes in the news : responses to female Arab and Israeli prototypes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Present research shows that there is no study examining media representation of Arab women and Israeli women as a prime causing stereotype activation in Americans. The goal of this study was to understand how news stories ...
Exploring the virtual communities of college football fans : the uses and gratifications of online message boards
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
In light of the uses and gratifications theory, this study examined how college football fans use online message boards, what their motivations are for using online message boards, and whether online message boards are ...