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Status Of The Shooter: News Coverage And Input From Photographers In Local Television News, David Ozmun

Articles

The rise of the 24-hour regional cable news channel has focused attention on "oneman bands-also called video journalists (Beacham, 1996; Colman, 1996; Lieberman, 1998). An increase in the number of journalists who report and shoot their own stories has been attributed to, among other things, economic pressures and technological advances (Sherer, 1994; RTNDF, 1995; Dickson, 1997). Television stations in very small markets have traditionally required reporters to make contacts, interview sources, record the video and sound, write the script, and edit the taped material into a finished product (Lindekugel, 1994). In most markets, however, the concept of a newsgathering team …

Scholarly But Relevant: A Comparison Of Topic Frequency Between Journalism Quarterly, Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media And Rtnda Communicator, David Ozmun

Presentations and Lectures

This study compares the topics addressed in a professional trade publication, the RTNDA Communicator, with topics specifically addressing broadcast news in the scholarly journals Journalism Quarterly and Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. The purpose of the research was to help ascertain whether television and radio news directors will find the research and issues of academic journal researchers useful and relevant to their journalism responsibilities.

The findings are based on a content analysis of the publications from 1992-1994, and are a partial replication of an earlier study that compared the content of Quill, Editor and Publisher and Columbia …

A Title Oscillation: Journal Of Comparative Neurology And Psychology, 1904-1910, Randall D. Wight

Articles

From 1904 through 1910, the Journal of Comparative Neurology became the Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology. This article attempts a reconstruction of the events behind this title oscillation from archival sources.