Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Journalism"
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Anxieties, expectations, and truths of contemporary journalism: A case study of the Mike Daisey scandal
(2013-07-25)In the tradition of studies that examine journalistic breaches, this thesis analyzes a journalistic scandal: This American Life's (TAL) radio broadcast and subsequent retraction of the story "Mr. Daisey and the Apple ... -
A Corpus-Linguistic Analysis of News Coverage in Kenya's Daily Nation and Great Britain's Times
This study uses institutional theory and corpus linguistics to understand the differences between press systems. Institutional theory suggests that institutions, including the press, develop some shared characteristics ... -
A Little Healthy Competition: The Effects of Press-Government Competition on Institutional Trust
(2014-04-30)This dissertation examined the relationship between the press and the government, and what effect competition between the two institutions has on trust in government and the news media. To do so, it combined a content ... -
Multimedia in the Mainstream: Analyzing Legacy News Traditions in Online Journalism
(2012-09-13)Newspapers, radio stations, and television stations are balancing the demands of a legacy product with the demands of putting material on the Web. Today information can be conveyed in multiple content forms--text, images, ... -
The Public Imperative: Civic Engagement, News Media, and Digital Politics in the Tea Party Movement
This dissertation explored a dimension of American political culture that is likely to be relevant to individuals and social movements seeking political change. I proposed that we share a familiar, yet mostly implicit, ... -
Source Affiliation and Framing of the GMO Debate by East Africa's Nation Media Group
A content analysis of the East African Nation Media Group newspapers' framing of the GMO debate from 2010-2013 adds to the global studies literature on the transatlantic debate on GMOs. The GMO debate has been described ... -
The American Newsroom: A Social History, 1920 to 1960
One of the most important centering places in American journalism remains the newsroom, the heart of the occupation’s vocational community since the middle of the nineteenth century. It is where journalists have engaged ... -
‘We report the world as it is, not as we want it to be’: Journalistic negotiation of news routines, roles and responsibilities when reporting on suicide
Media coverage of suicide can play a pivotal role in raising public awareness of an important public health issue. But research suggests that reporting on suicide can potentially influence vulnerable individuals to emulate ...