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The School of Journalism was founded in 1908 by Walter Williams. Williams, first dean of the school, believed that journalism education should be professionalized and provided at a university. Today, some of the best journalists in the world have learned their profession through the Missouri Method, which provides practical hands-on training in real-world media and strategic communication agencies.
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Media construction of HIV
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)Many of the challenges experienced by people living with HIV relate to biases, stigma, and conceptualization of HIV, rather than to the scientific realities of the virus itself or the medical impacts of living with the ... -
Telling an augmented story - how can web-based augmented reality be used in designing narratives for brands?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] The advance of website-based augmented reality (Web AR) enables advertisers to create and lets consumers receive mobile AR (MAR) content easily, necessitating research on Web AR used to design ... -
Making the invisible, visible : photojournalism and the documentation of the COVID-19 pandemic
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] It has been argued that published photos by news agencies of COVID-19 were either too nuanced or too graphic. In either scenario, photojournalists were held accountable for what members of the ... -
Demystifying the private sector : the use of publicly accessible records to report on private equity firms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)The purpose of this research is to provide journalists with the tools necessary to report on private equity firms, a notoriously opaque sector of the economy. Private equity firms exert a large amount of influence on the ... -
Journalist or influencer? Exploring young public media journalists' perceptions of individual branding on Twitter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] As the news continues to be increasingly crafted and consumed online, media practitioners and media scholars are becoming more engaged in a complex discourse about journalistic branding, how it ... -
Colonial discourse in U.S. and Puerto Rican newspapers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)The aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico unveiled for many the colonial power of the U.S. in Puerto Rico. The natural disaster became a financial and public health problem in part due to laws that limit the scope ... -
Cultivating criticisms : how journalism students critique the news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)Scholars note the importance of press criticism to the journalism-democracy framework, yet press criticism is underdeveloped as an academic pursuit. This study seeks to develop the study of press criticism by examining ... -
A qualitative study on Black students' vaccination decisions using the Health Belief Model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)Pandemics and vaccinations are nothing new, and the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most recent to threaten millions of lives globally. The first widely distributed vaccine was created for smallpox (CDC, 2022) and since ... -
Narratives, framing, and exemplification in LGBTQ+ suicide public health messaging
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)Suicide in LGBTQ+ individuals, especially youth, is a growing public health issue. However, the literature on this issue within the field of mass communication is under-developed. This study seeks to understand how the use ... -
Understanding the impact of Artificial Intelligence on newsroom social culture and journalistic performative roles : a qualitative case study of AI as an emerging digital innovative technology in newsrooms
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)Throughout the evolution of journalism, innovative technology has played a pivotal role in shaping the production and consumption of news. The transformative power of disruptive technology has revolutionized the journalism ... -
What training and resources would help journalists covering traumatic events?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)There is no question that covering traumatic events can cause PTSD in journalists. The research is proven. According to Killeen (2011), reporters’ suffering has been labeled Assignment Stress Injury (ASI). Backholm and ... -
Queer here : parasocially bridging intersectionality and situated knowledge within the LGBT community
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2023] Using qualitative methods, this research looked at how queer audiences engaged with the queer created docuseries We're Here. This research explored the relationship between parasocial relationships ... -
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 ... -
Princes, rock stars and their wives : analyzing tabloid coverage of women married to celebrity men
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Half a century apart, two American women caught the attention of British tabloids for marrying British celebrity men: Linda Eastman, a rock photographer from New York wed Paul McCartney, the last bachelor Beatle in 1969. ... -
Rhetorical visions presented in Donald J. Trump's political speeches and their influence on the social realities of the participants in the January 6th, 2021 Capitol Riot
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The January 6, 2021, attempted take-over of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. is unprecedented in recent history. This was widely covered by media outlets in the United States and the world. Applying Symbolic ... -
Approachable or appropriative? Black Americans' perceptions of codeswitched advertisements using African American Vernacular English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The present qualitative study investigated the phenomenon of using cultural dialect African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in codeswitched advertising by gathering Black American perceptions related to this semiotic ... -
Exploring the view from nowhere : studying how journalists of color see traditional objectivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)After Donald Trump's rise to power, many journalists began to reconsider the role that objectivity plays in reporting. Trump's candidacy was filled with scandals, inflammatory statements, falsehoods and attacks on the ... -
Journalism's lifeline : exploring an American aversion to government aid
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Journalism is experiencing an existential crisis. The U.S. has assigned to free-market capitalism a task that it is incapable of achieving to the degree that benefits the public and democracy: investing in journalism as a ... -
The Missouri Honor Medal for distinguished service in Journalism [2015]
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The Missouri Honor Medal for distinguished service in Journalism [2013]
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