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How the New York Times uses information graphics and data visualizations for hard news and soft news and to foster audience engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
As data visualizations and interactive graphics are gaining more significance in journalistic storytelling, more research is needed to study their impact. This study assessed the differences in the use and production of ...
From Violence to Peace: The Daily Nation and the change in how ethnicity is reported from the 2007 to the 2013 presidential elections
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Between the 2007 and 2013 Kenyan presidential elections there was a shift in how ethnicity was covered in the Kenyan media. The changes were brought about by necessity and in response to a catastrophic wave of violence ...
What is it like to be a foreign journalist in China? : micro-documentaries of China-based journalists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
What it is like to be a foreign journalist in China? This is the central question this project tries to answer. Through three micro-documentaries and eight in-depth interviews, this project tries to get a glimpse of foreign ...
Radio, radio: Building a public radio model to attract younger listeners
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This project sought to investigate the question of what can attract younger listeners to public radio programming? Using a mixed method of personal interviews with public radio practitioners and an online survey targeting ...
Nonprofit communication & brand building
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study examines the brand-building efforts of nine nonprofit organizations through semi-structured interviews with nonprofit employees and through the grounded theory method. Questions focused on the efforts made by ...
Model minority
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Two contemporary documentary photographers based in the US were interviewed and asked about their approach to doing photo stories in foreign countries. They were questioned on various things that affect a story such as ...
Lee Ester News Fellowship. How audience habits should influence the development of radio station web sites: A case study of Wisconsin public radio
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Media outlets have faced a lot of change in the past decade: the increasing dominance of the Internet, the transition to digital formats and shrinking newsrooms, to name a few. But the root challenges taxing newsrooms ...
Theater as a forum for free and public discourse: cultivating free speech through arts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Uzbekistan does not get a lot of coverage in US newspapers, but the coverage it gets is telling. A review of 53 articles in Harper's Magazine, ...
Silence builds walls
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This project deals with the issues of suicide and the stigma that comes with. Four individuals, all of whom have attempted suicide and survived, ...
Moderating the green guilt of marketing : a visual analysis and semiotic review of environmental advertising
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Throughout the research component of my master's professional project, I sought to effectively compare the intended message of environmental advertisements with the understood message of research subjects. The understanding ...
Is J--School worth it? Evaluating convergence students' preparation at the University of Missouri School of Journalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Converged media is the present and future of the journalism industry today. Knowing how to write and edit no longer seems to be enough. Journalists must be a jack-of-all-trades, and journalism schools seem to be one, if ...
Objectivity under fire: Media coverage of the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
An examination of elite newspaper coverage of the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War to see how the coverage was framed and whether bias was apparent. The study performed a textual analysis of two leading ...
Blue skies and red seas : how the Faroese see their nation portrayed in international media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Media representation of the Faroe Islands, like that of other small, little-known places, is vulnerable to being skewed by various frames, agendas and biases. The islanders are demonized by the anti-whalers and their world ...
Effective policy reporting methods for television news
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
I spent the spring 2013 semester serving as KOMU 8's Capitol Correspondent at the stations' Capitol Bureau. During that time, reported on political issues facing the state both for daily newscasts and for longer enterprise ...
Picture perfect: How editors of women's magazines depict fitness. What messages do editors send through cover sell lines and images?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
My research question was: What messages do editors send through cover images and sell lines? The goal of my research was to explore three women's fitness magazines, Fitness, Shape and Women's Health, and highlight the ...
The Tibetan Doctors: A Study of Chinese Non-governmental Organizations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Chinese non-governmental organizations have been an increasing force in Chinese society in the 21st Century but there are very few researches addressing them in the field of journalism. This study examines how Chinese ...
EnVoz Alta: Honduran youth gain a stronger voice with journalism education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The EnVoz Alta project involved teaching journalism to approximately 230 fifth and sixth grade students in Siguatepeque, Honduras. The students learned reporting and writing techniques through a mixture of lecture, interactive ...
Narrative sweat and flow : the challenge and fulfillment of covering sensitive social issues
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Long-form narrative writers who immerse themselves in other lives and situations to cover social issues have one of the hardest jobs in journalism. They take on difficult, often heart-wrenching subjects, and tell stories ...
Local TVs engage audience through Facebook : the practice and the effect
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This analysis looks at the audience engagement efforts and effects on the Facebook pages of the local television stations in the mid-Missouri ...
How we remember the 9/11 attacks changed in public radio talks from 2001 to 2011
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The collective memories of the 9/11 attacks provide a context to understanding and analyzing post-9/11 policies, the war on terror and how safe America ...