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Journalism's lifeline : exploring an American aversion to government aid
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
. This underinvestment has resulted in growing news conglomerates, concentrating news media ownership, and proliferating news deserts. This reality leaves local communities without local newsrooms or local journalists, and desperately starved for quality news content...
Reddit news fandoms as digital news literacies: structuring the evaluation of information sources in a challenging information ecosystem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
between journalism and its audience as these environments also complicate that relationship. Reddit offers a visible look at the discursive labor of journalists and their audience as they apply their news literacies to work for journalism as critics...
In front of the lens : the expectations, experiences, and reactions of visual journalism's subjects
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
the interaction between journalist and subject is extended and in-depth, sometimes it is brief and shallow, and sometimes, it is nonexistent. People are often reactive to cameras and tension can exist between the idealized ways people want to be depicted...
Exploring the intersections of advocacy, objectivity, and solutions reporting in environmental journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
journalists. In addition, this research explores in what ways, if any, the emergence of solutions journalism has led these journalists to transform their perceptions of advocacy and objectivity as related to their work. Findings show that the environmental...
Subsidizing the press : understanding journalists' attitudes about corporate and government influence and the public interest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
, if the press can't fulfill its obligation to serve society, the government could intervene to ensure that it does. Journalists, protective of their watchdog role, are widely assumed to reject the idea of government involvement. But is this assumption valid...
The business imperative of newsroom diversity: how identities influence Indonesian women media leaders' perceptions and implementation of newsroom changes and innovation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
News organizations tend to preserve male-dominated organizational culture and have been historically oriented to serve the male reader market. This, however, stifles innovation and fails to respond to rapid changes in the ...
Elephant in the room : a study of the impact of emotional experiences on burnout among Chinese reporters
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
journalistic practices, occupational attitudes, mental and physical well-being, as well as personal life might be impacted by their involvement in the complex emotional mechanism. The follow-up survey reveals the effect of the demand on emotions at work...
Awareness and Acceptance of Biotechnology Issues among Youth, Undergraduates, and Adults
(AgBioForum, 2003)
To be successful both domestically and internationally, biotechnology must establish an acceptable position in the sociopolitical framework. This United States (US) study assessed levels of awareness and acceptance of ...
Explicating journalism-as-a-conversation : two experimental tests of online news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
, often as an embedded concept. The first experiment tested whether readers perceive conversational stories as different from traditional stories and as more credible and expert. The second tested types of journalistic conversation on these outcomes...
Bioethicists in the news : the evolving role of bioethicists as expert sources in science and medical stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Journalists have increasingly used bioethicists as expert sources in stories on science, medicine, and technology with strong ethical ramifications. Yet little is known about how and why journalists select bioethicists as expert sources, which...
"Racism lives here" : racial ideologies in local news media coverage of student university protests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
protesters as deviant and resistant, while university leaders were constructed as normal and compliant. Ultimately, this research provides a possible template for local journalists to improve the equity and balance of their coverage of social movements....
Media performance and democratic rule in East Africa : agenda setting and agenda building influences on public attitudes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This dissertation examined the media influence and the government influence on public attitudes on issues concerning democratic rule in the East African Community (EAC). I proceeded under the assumption that the influence ...
The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This study analyzes intermedia agenda setting during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign to determine the agenda-setting role of prominent political bloggers in relation to the mainstream news media and the candidates. An ...
Exploring the process of an obstacles to hiring foreign-born journalists in American newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
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Managing "Amazonia": a cultural case study of female leadership at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)
This ethnographic study, the first comprehensive examination of a newspaper managed by women at its highest levels, found that female leaders made some differences in newsroom management and culture, and, to a lesser degree, ...
Identities on the line : youth, internet use, and citizenship in Kyrgyzstan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
, observation, survey), the study investigates the ways in which young people develop and express "cultural identity" in their rapidly globalizing and expanding digital media environment. For urban youth in Kyrgyzstan, the Internet is widely available and free...
Trauma in journalism : mental health impacts in TV news field journalists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This project is a case study using qualitative research methods to examine mental health impacts of TV news field journalists who cover breaking news and severe weather on a consistent basis. The study also uses the cognitive appraisal theory...
A Narrative Study of The Perceptions Of Education for Globalization Held by Teachers in the Urban Core
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
The purpose of this social constructivist narrative study is to understand the thoughts,
perceptions and experiences of urban K-8 educational professionals regarding education for
globalization. The goal of this study ...
Why people produce citizen-journalism : a qualitative analysis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
"Citizen journalism" is the term used to describe journalism-like mass media content produced and published by non-professional journalists, i.e. everyday people who produce and publish written, photographic or videographic content for free. Blogs...
Media framing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Changes to the U.S. tax system can have significant impacts on individuals, and the media is often where the public turns to for information and ...