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Managing "Amazonia": a cultural case study of female leadership at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
found that the managers brought their feminine standpoints to the workplace. They created a work environment that emphasized teamwork, consensus and a balance of work and family. The study also found that the female leadership changed some...
Media usage of journalism students of the University of Missouri--Columbia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The Internet has become ubiquitous in many Americans' lives, raising questions about its effect on traditional media usage. Given this, how do today's journalism students - the future leaders of journalism - use the Internet and other forms of media...
Messages of frugality and consumption in the Ladies' Home Journal : 1920s-1940s
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Since its inception more than 125 years ago, the Ladies' Home Journal has provided readers with cost-saving, pragmatic advice on domestic matters, while at the same time promoting consumerism by exposing readers to all the material trappings...
Journalism's lifeline : exploring an American aversion to government aid
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
. Previous research indicates that there is little-to-no desire for government aid as an option to sustain journalism among academics, policy makers, and media owners and managers in the journalism industry. However, there was little research indicating...
The elite press, the Bush administration, and Iraq: ideology confines scrutiny in the Post and the Times
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This study examines whether ideology or a reliance on official sources is the primary influence upon the elite media during times of armed conflict by analyzing the Iraq war coverage in the Washington Post and the New York ...
Net gains: potential citizen journalists use traditional media often and have a strong need for news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
they can find it. The key to involving these people in the news is interactivity, or allowing people to choose and submit their own news and receive and offer feedback to newsmakers. Citizen journalism offers one highly interactive forum. Through a survey...
Do fonts have politics? : typography and design of partisan and nonpartisan websites
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This research identifies and analyzes design choices made by online liberal and conservative media outlets with a focus on typography to identify design elements and font characteristics as signs of political ideology. ...
Breaking into the boys' club : an analysis of the experiences of women journalists entering the sports journalism arena
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Historically, women sports journalists encounter frequent instances of objectification, harassment, and discrimination from sources, colleagues, and higher ups (Hardin & Shain, 2005), and women in the current sports journalism industry remain...
News framing and public approval of the tax cuts and jobs act
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
that stories that emphasized negative or neutral economic outcomes were more comprehensive than stories that focused on positive economic outcomes. The research raises practical implications for journalists about how the framing of stories and the economic...
Conflict positioning in crisis communication : integrating contingency stance with image repair strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
theoretical robustness, generate ecological validity, and test its practical applicability, the conceptualization is applied on two case studies involving airline crashes, both involving the same organization. Findings showed that all the 10 propositions...
Defining characteristics of online-only news websites : a case study on the St. Louis Beacon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This thesis examines the ways that traditional newspaper journalism practice seeps into online-only news Websites. More specifically, this study focuses on The St. Louis Beacon...
Small newspapers, big changes: awareness of market-driven journalism and consequences for community newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This study examines the attitudes of journalists at small newspapers toward market-driven journalism. The researcher queried 29 journalists at nine small Missouri newspapers. The author employed qualitative method using several data sets to examine...
Examining media coverage of the subprime mouurtgage [sic] phenomenon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] When both outsiders and insiders attempt to describe bias in the American media, the conversation is primarily dominated by accusations of left-right ...
Blackouts made visible : a visual-textual analysis of Sarah Glidden's comics journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This thesis studies Sarah Glidden's largely unexamined book Rolling Blackouts as a significant contribution to the genre known as comics journalism. It argues that Glidden's work engages in a material struggle over the nature of journalism by using...
A world in flux : journalistic change in science journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
As modernity undergoes radical changes, a narrative of journalistic change has emerged in journalism research. One way that journalistic change has been conceptualized is in terms of a shift from a high modern to a liquid ethos (Deuze, 2005, 2017...
Media coverage of the new economy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The late 1990's represented a time of unprecedented economic growth. However, the economic bubble ultimately burst and the nation entered into a recession. Following the crash, there was speculation that the media were ...
Examining media convergence : does it also converge good journalism, economic synergies, and competitive advantages?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation explores the "simple theory" (Murphy, 2002): Those most experienced in it expect that media convergence will create good journalism, generate the effects of scale and scope economies, and achieve competitive advantages...
Comparative framing of the Duggar family's women in entertainment news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
This research seeks to compare the framing used to portray the women in the Duggar Family in entertainment news media with the realities of the evangelical community. A summative content analysis was used to conduct this comparative study looking...
The impact of gender on the use of metaphors in media reports covering the 2003 Gulf War in Iraq
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This study investigates whether gender of the reporter or the source has an impact on the metaphors that are used in media reports on the 2003 war in Iraq. War metaphors previously exposed by other research are explored and analyzed, and a search...
Effects of journalism education on student engagement : a case study of a small-town scholastic press programe
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
the bi-weekly news magazine or the yearbook. Concepts of media literacy and pedagogical practices of the journalism advisers were also explored. Though the results cannot be generalized to encompass the experiences of students in all high school...