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Content Differences Between Print And Online Newspapers, Jessica E. Smith
Content Differences Between Print And Online Newspapers, Jessica E. Smith
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The Internet provides the opportunity to develop a new way to present journalism, but many scholars say newspaper Web sites do nothing but mirror their print parents. This study used content analysis to compare the content of stories in five newspapers with their Web counterparts, and it examines whether reporter affiliation or a story's geographic emphasis has a relationship with the story's amount of contextual elements. These elements could include photos, graphics, or multimedia or interactive components online. This approach applied gatekeeping theory to publications that have editions in two media.
This study examined the five largest newspapers in the …