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Columbia Chronicle (05/02/2011), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from May 2, 2011 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 44 pages and is listed as Volume 46, Number 29. Cover story: "Siriano at Columbia in good fashion" Editor-in-Chief: Spencer Roush

Covering Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis Of Al Jazeear New Site And Al Arabiya News Site., Khalaf Mohammad Tahat

Student Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine how two Arab news sites, Al Jazeera news site and Al Arabiya news site, portrayed terrorism events from Sept.11, 2009 to Sept.10, 2010. A total of 200 stories were analyzed, with 100 stories from each sites. The two sites have failed to correct the stereotype of Muslims as terrorists. They didn't make serious efforts to dispel the negative image of Islam, which Western media frequently accused Arab and Muslims as being terrorism makers. In addition, they were unable to crystallize clear trends, specific and bold positions to reflect the Arab-Islamic culture regarding …

Full Court Press: How Mississippi Newspapers Helped Keep State College Basketball Segregated, 1955-1973, Jason Ashley Peterson

Dissertations

During the civil rights era, Mississippi was cloaked in the hateful embrace of the Closed Society, historian James Silver’s description of the white caste systems that used State’s Rights to enforce segregation and promote the subservient treatment of blacks. Surprisingly, challenges from Mississippi’s college basketball courts brought into question the validity of the Closed Society and its unwritten law, a gentleman’s agreement that prevented college teams in the Magnolia State from playing against integrated foes. Led by Mississippi State University’s (MSU) basketball team, which won four Southeastern Conference championships in a five-year span, the newspapers in Mississippi often debated the …

Honors Journalism: Selected Writings, Matthew Joseph Boutin

Journalism Program

Contained in this writing package are the seven best-crafted and most compelling pieces of writing of my undergraduate career. They have been assembled, expanded and edited under the supervision of my project advisor, Professor Thomas Bass, into this final product. One of the benefits of majoring in Journalism I most appreciate is having the freedom to constantly explore new topics in my writing. This collection reflects the broad scope of the major, as it includes articles covering a diverse range of issues and events, as well as a media study and an autobiographical story. The composition of each of the …

Floyd Gibbons: A Journalistic Force Of Nature In Early 20th Century America, Andrew J. Nelson

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

“Floyd Gibbons: A Journalistic Force of Nature in Early 20^th Century America” examines some of the key journalistic work of dashing newsman Floyd Gibbons and his status as one of the top reporters to ever file a news story. This thesis will look at the world in which Gibbons inhabited 85 to100 years ago, what made him the man and journalist he was and his work as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune compared to what his competitors at national newspapers wrote.

As a reporter, Gibbons was remarkably aggressive and could be counted upon to get the story, no …

Hypertext, Narrative, And The Future Of News Writing, Holly Cowart

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis considers how the narrative context in which hypertext has developed offers a solution for transforming print media into an online form. It defines the qualities of the hypertext narrative and looks specifically at how hyperfiction has utilized these qualities. It outlines the aspects of hypertext relevant to shaping an online narrative and then considers how those aspects of hypertext could be applied to one of the forms of narrative, the online news story, that up to this point has not effectively utilized screen-based text. The online news story is an example of words on a screen functioning in …

Echo, Summer/Fall 2011, Columbia College Chicago

Echo

Student-produced magazine formerly published as Chicago Arts and Communication, changed to Echo magazine in 1997. Cover Articles: Degrees of difficulty: undocumented and undeterred, school books and diaper bags; Game on!: inside Magic the Gathering; Mouthwatering movies: a feature and a feast; Metalmorphosis: a heavy metal geneology. 80 pages.

Access, May 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Access Magazine

No abstract provided.

An Iphone In A Haystack: The Uses And Gratifications Behind Farmers Using Twitter, Sarah Van Dalsem

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

The fast-growing social media site, Twitter, is growing in popularity among Americans from all walks of life, including farmers who are using it to share information with other farmers and consumers. This thesis expands on Uses and Gratifications Theory by looking at how farmers are using the social media site to promote agriculture and reach out to others. Based on a qualitative analysis completed on 22 interviews with farmers, four major purposes for using Twitter came to light: (1) Farmers are using Twitter to seek information; (2) they are using it as a tool to lead others within the agricultural …

Gatekeeping In A Tv News Editorial Conference: Shift Of Force, Other Media, Personal Experience And Pack Mentality, Kyril Daniel Plaskon

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This study uses Gatekeeping Theory and Conversational Analysis to describe how four factors influence news gatekeepers in a small group at one TV station. The four factors include shifting forces, other media, personal experience and pack mentality. They were identified through conversational analysis of pilot data and the research questions are supported in the literature as common influences in news gatekeeping. This study describes how those four elements occur during group conversation.

Analysis of the recorded data collected in five editorial conferences describes how the four factors are expressed by the gatekeepers as they consider events that may become news. …

Factors Of Adoption: Initiating Relationships Using Online Dating Sites, Rachel Lee Toyer

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The present study used the Diffusion of Innovations Model to explore the circumstances that lead graduate and professional students enrolled at the a university in southern Nevada to adopt online dating services with the intent of initiating a serious commitment with a potential partner. The diffusion model was used to frame online dating as a process that people go through in acquiring knowledge about the service, forming an opinion about it, testing the service, and finally adopting the service into their daily life. Factors such as time afforded to relationships, apprehension in social situations, safety, and opinions of online dating …

Public Interest Standard Characteristics In Hybrid Digital Multicasts Of Noncommercial Educational Radio, Michele Ann Gothard

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Radio broadcasting implements digital multicasting in the United States with the adoption of HD Radio from iBiquity. Hybrid digital radio multicasts can upgrade either AM or FM facilities, and stations adopt the technology without loosing traditional analogue broadcasts. Broadcasting with digital technology creates additional channels of information, extending limitations of the electromagnetic spectrum. Scholarly research about hybrid digital technology considers motivations for adoption by stations but has not focused on content of existing multicasts. This study examines noncommercial educational radio multicasts for characteristics of service in the public interest.

Discourse characteristics find a mix of sounds that include both speech …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 52, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

V. 78, Issue 34, April 29, 2011

Archway (1946-2020)

No abstract provided.

Chimes: April 29, 2011, Calvin College

Chimes

Senate debate flares up on hot topics, winners announced by Griffin Jackson

Research astounds by Tyler Slamkowski

Obama targets oil subsidies by David Ryou

Dialogue for community by community by Colleen M. Keehl

Decemberists give thrill to crowd of thousands by Eric Thayer

Mast phenomenal, softball founders by Tim Clover

Calvin climbs to second by Luke Leisman

Spartan Daily April 28, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 46

The Cowl - V. 75 - N. N/A - Apr 28, 2011 - Commencement Issue

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 75 - Number n/a - April 28, 2011 - Commencement Issue. 8 pages.

The Cowl - V. 75 - N. 22 - Apr 28, 2011

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 75 - Number 22 - April 28, 2011. 36 pages.

The Prospector, April 28, 2011, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Body Art Myths

Spartan Daily April 27, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 45

Prospectus, April 27, 2011, Kassy Coan, Josh Grube, Chuck Shepherd, Sean Hermann, Jake Godin, Markus Rodgers, Rod Lovett

Prospectus 2011

YEAR-ROUND PELL GRANT ELIMINATED, Japanese Culture Club: Small Group, Big Heart, Parkland Students to Help Install LiveRoof System on Campus, Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird, News From the Studio: The Latest from 88.7 WPCD, With Parents in Korea, Sis Becomes Mom, Will We Ever Be Able to Fight for a Common Goal Again?, Attack the Law, Not the Lawyer, Is Everybody Happy?, A Look into the World of Focus Testing, Shoes That Can Be Recycled, Real Men Wear Pink! Cobras Host Invitational for Breast Cancer Research, Heartland Takes Bite Out of PC Softball, Stay Safe

The Legacy, April 27, 2011, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

The Cnn Effect: Mass Media And Humanitarian Aid, Jared R. Bredeson

Senior Honors Theses

Mass media have great power and great responsibility. The CNN Effect states that when news media broadcast emotionally driven stories of human crisis, this provokes a major response by domestic audiences and political elites. This power to influence public policy can help save people from danger and even death. Acts of massive genocide were committed in Rwanda and Darfur. Because the media failed to act quickly and report accurately on these situations, many people lost their lives due to slow international reaction. News media need to learn from these tragic mistakes and never let genocide go on unnoticed by those …

Spartan Daily April 26, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 44

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 51, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

The Prospector, April 26, 2011, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Burglaries Increase

Columbia Chronicle (04/25/2011), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle (student newspaper)

Student newspaper from April 25, 2011 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 48 pages and is listed as Volume 46, Number 28. Cover story: "Fire at Buckingham" Editor-in-Chief: Spencer Roush

Spartan Daily April 25, 2011, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 136, Issue 43

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 86, No. 50, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Why Anonymous Sources Are Used: Inside The Different Situations Calling For Reporter-Source Confidentiality, Erich Eisenach

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

Anonymous sources for years have been a hard thing for editors to figure out.  In journalism, they’re the kind of factor that editors can’t live with, and yet they can’t live without.  That’s because for years, anonymous sources have been critical to the completion of many major stories.  Some of the situations they are used in are obvious, and yet some are not so obvious.  In the thesis below, which includes material from two of the most veteran journalists within Nebraska borders, I talk about anonymous sources and why they are used in certain situations.  Here, I acknowledge the people …