Dissertations / Theses: 'Newspapers'

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Staub, Susan Clarke. "The Newspaper in Education Program: Are Newspapers Committed?" Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292138.

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Fayo, Sicelo Nathaniel. "Innovation in post production stage of print Newspaper." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1544.

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Print newspapers in South Africa are the oldest formal mode of news and information dissemination but which has come under tremendous pressure with the advent and spread of technological innovation involving information communication infrastructure and processes, but specifically the internet. The main challenge facing print newspapers in terms of circulation growth of print and advertising revenue is speed to market. The internet has not only provided a new avenue for news and information dissemination but has the distinct advantage of tremendous speed to deliver news and information to readers. Meanwhile, print newspapers whose production is still almost entirely dependent on traditional structures, processes and physical mode of delivery are battling to stay afloat as the chase for readers' attention is gaining more ground on digital platforms. This new competition landscape has now cast focus fully on traditional print media‟s production processes competency levels as well as their suitability for the nature of competition posed by digital news platforms. The processes involved in the production of a print newspaper can be described as hybrid (Davis and Heineke. 2005: 220) in that they involve different types of processes at different stages to produce the final product. The focus of this study at Avusa Media (Port Elizabeth) was on the post production processes involving the printing and distribution of printed newspapers with the objective of gaining an understanding of the extent and impact of the information technology advancement in the post production phase of printed newspapers. v In pursuing the goal, the case study research followed a phenomenological paradigm involving exploratory and descriptive research processes as described by Yin (1994) in Collis and Hussey (2003: 69) and Clifford Geertz (1973) in Babbie and Mouton (2005: 272) The research found that the traditional business structure for printed newspapers is increasingly becoming unviable due to poverty of technological innovation in critical parts of the production value chain; namely post production processes that encompass printing and distribution of printed newspapers. The research established and revealed that while there are some technological innovations and advances in the print newspaper publishing industry value chain worldwide, they are not only severely limited and disjointed but are also seemingly moving apart rather than towards consolidation in terms of the speed to market need faced by print newspaper publishers.

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Ratković, Vanja. "The Croatian media in transition : from May 4, 1980 to March 32, 1991 /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1421155.

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Schmedding, Teresa M. Bentley Clyde H. "Newspaper management training and attitudes a survey of managing editors and human resource directors on management training and attitudes toward management in newspapers /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5363.

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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on December 31, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Clyde H. Bentley. Includes bibliographical references.

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Moore, Siobhan Kathleen Duffy Margaret. "A qualitative case study into the Toronto Star's electronic newspaper and its impact on newsroom practices and journalists." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6667.

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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 10, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Thesis advisor: Dr. Margaret Duffy. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Gade, Peter J. "Turbulent times : a study of change in the newspaper industy /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946256.

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Brantley, Rachel Alison. "A study of 'USA Today's' influence on the style and content of selected newspapers in five Midwest states." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1221285.

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In 1990, George Gladney looked at 230 of the nation's largest dailies to see the influence of USA Today. He determined a score for each paper by looking at five categories: color; pictures and graphics; trivia and fluff; brevity, capsulization and promotion; and complexity and depth. After he determined scores for each paper, he ranked them and divided them into adopters and non-adopters. Even though two papers scored above USA Today, he found that most newspapers had a long way to go before they would look like USA Today. He also found that chain-owned papers tended more to be adopters than non-adopters.This researcher duplicated his study using 34 papers with more than 50,000 daily circulation in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio. Using Gladney's scoring system, the papers were given scores according to certain criteria. Some categories were further divided. The trivia and fluff category was divided into celebrity coverage, sports coverage and weather. The brevity, complexity and depth category was subdivided into text six inches or less and summaries, indices and promotions. The complexity and depth category was divided into lead sentence length and the length of the longest page 1 stories.Newspapers were divided into groups: "adopters" and "non-adopters" of the USA Today style. This study found that eight of the 34 papers were non-adopters and five were adopters.Eight papers scored above USA Today. This study showed that neither the adopter nor the non-adopter group had the majority of the newspapers. USA Today fell in between these groups making it part of the norm.There was a correlation between chain-owned newspapers and adopting the USA Today style. This study did not support Gladney's original conclusion that smallercirculation newspapers tended to be more adopting of the USA Today style. As newspaper circulations decreased, newspaper scores did not increase. Larger newspapers were not more resistant to the USA Today style.
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Moodley, Padhma. "Mainstream newspapers versus community newspapers: an investigation into readers preferences." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1130.

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Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Communication Science at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2011.
This study aims to provide clarity in respect of the readers and advertisers preference between mainstream and community newspapers. As a result of the unprecedented success of community newspaper, mainstream newspapers have found themselves a new rival in the face of technological developments such as the Internet. Central to both these genres of newspapers stand the readers and advertisers'. These readers form an integral part of the existence of the newspapers and a key component in advertising. For advertisers, the community newspapers provided the perfect reach as they were aimed at a specific audience. Mainstream newspapers have been placed under duress with the proliferation of community newspapers as circulation expanded dramatically. This study provides an insight into readers' preferences using the Uses and Gratifications theory as a departure point. The results of this study will also show that in spite of both readers' and advertisers' preference, the mainstream newspaper will not be made obsolete, instead it will have to continue to reinvent itself to keep abreast of the changes in the environment.

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Osukhina, M., Ірина Анатоліївна Башлак, Ирина Анатольевна Башлак, and Iryna Anatoliivna Bashlak. "Sumy school newspapers." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/31128.

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School press – is a big developed sector of mass communication. It plays the same role as a huge paper in a city or even country. It helps to solve problems, appeals to a schoolmaster, teachers and students to tell about school events, victories, bright talented pupils and others. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/31128

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Wilson, Brenda Chaffin. "A newspaper reading habit in college students: family newspaper literacy practices, K-12 newspaper exposure, and civic interest : a dissertation presented to the faculty of the Graduate School, Tennessee Technological University /." Click to access online version, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=66&did=1400959021&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=6&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1254944459&clientId=28564.

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Simpson, Alfred E. "Workers' perceptions of the effects of technological change at two southwestern Pennsylvania newspaper publishers /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148732574072054.

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Ketterer, Stanley E. "The effects of links, story type and personality variables on readers' perceptions and use of crime stories in online newspapers /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9988717.

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Salomonsson, Tina. "The use of verbs in newspaper headlines : A case study of two British newspapers." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-14720.

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This essay deals with verb use in headlines. More specifically, the aim was to see if therewere any differences between two British newspapers in how verbs were used in headlines. Inorder to carry out this study, 100 headlines were collected from each of the newspapers andorganized into groups; headlines that included verbs and headlines that did not. A decisionwas made to only look at two types of verbs; main verbs and auxiliaries.The results showed that The Independent as well as The Sun generally contains verbs. TheIndependent has a slightly higher rate when main verbs and auxiliaries are put together.However, The Sun uses more auxiliaries. Only primary and modal auxiliaries are used in TheSun as well as in The Independent, no semi-auxiliaries were found in any of the newspaperheadlines. Another interesting fact was that The Independent has removed all auxiliaries in theforms of be. Then Sun too seems to prefer headlines without this particular auxiliary but therewere a few headlines which included forms of be.A comparison between the results presented in this study and a study carried out by Mårdhduring the late 1970’s shows similar results. The present study is far more limited in itsmaterial but the parts that could be compared shows that the verb use in newspaper headlineshas not changed much during the past few decades.

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Alshehri, Fayez A. "Electronic newspapers on the Internet : a study of the production and consumption of Arab dailies on the World Wide Web." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3503/.

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With the spread of the Internet in the Arab world, many Arab publishers and governments' media bodies have begun to utilise websites in their outreach programmes. This thesis examines the subject of Arab e-newspapers on the Internet. Specifically, it focuses on readers of these publications and explores their use of this new news medium and their overall satisfaction with it. To supplement this analysis, data were also collected from e-newspaper publishers about their practices and about the content of their Internet news services. The methodology included online surveys of readers and publishers, content and format analysis of newspapers' websites, and face-to-face interviews with some Arab journalists. The research was restricted to Internet daily publications published by Arab publishers in Arabic and English, though its results may have wider implications. It was also restricted temporally to a specific time period, meaning that events in this rapidly changing new technology environment may quickly overtake the situation as elucidated in this work. In this respect, the findings do not reflect the impact of the new browsers that were introduced in late 1999, such as Microsoft's multi-language browser (Internet Explorer version 5), which will revolutionise the way people, read Internet content. The most important trend that has been identified is the major move of existing Arab printed newspapers towards online publishing in most Arab countries. Some of them just present part of their printed product (a selection of the daily content), others offer all of their content but, in most cases they appear in the same optical format as in the printed version. Yet, despite the urgency to get on the Internet, the findings reveal that most publishers did not have clear online publishing strategies and most of them were unaware of the seriousness of the Internet to their traditional business. This study revealed that the demographic profile of Arab e-newspapers' readers was similar, in many ways, to readership profiles found for Internet users in the non-Arab World, in terms of age, occupation and level of education. The keys to reader loyalty and satisfaction are found in the ease with which online news can be accessed and explored, and the extent to which it is updated.

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Peters, Lisa Jayne. "Wrexham newspapers, 1848-1914." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504470.

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This study aims to discover if any Wrexham newspaper could claim "regional" circulation between 1848 and 1914. Eight newspapers are studied, four monthlies: the Wrexham Recorder, the Wrexham Registrar, the Wrexham (Monthly) Advertiser, and the Wrexham Albion, and four weeklies: the Wrexham (Weekly) Advertiser, the Wrexham Telegraph, the Wrexham Guardian, and the Wrexham Free Press. Chapter one introduces the topic and briefly explains the methodologies used in the study. Chapter two reviews the literature available whilst chapter three offers a brief history of the English and Welsh provincial press. Chapter four defines what this study meant by a "regional" newspaper by analysing the opinions of local historians and geographers as to how a region can be defined. Chapter five offers a history of the Wrexham press from 1848 to 1914, focusing on the personalities, politics, and progress of each title. Chapter six discusses possible rival newspapers and how they may have affected the sales and circulation on the Wrexham press. Chapters seven to ten focus on four aspects of the Wrexham press - distribution, district news coverage, news content, and advertising. Each aspect was statistically analysed to ascertain the geographical circulation area of each newspaper, and changes over time. Chapter eleven draws the thesis together and comes to the general conclusion that no Wrexham newspaper achieved regional status although at least one title attempted to do so and may have been temporarily successful. By 1914, the growth of the north Wales provincial press meant that the circulation area of the two surviving Wrexham newspapers was based on the Wrexham locality. Appendices giving statistical data and information on those involved in the Wrexham press trade are included.

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Sisko, Mary Elizabeth Kimberly. "Tombstone Newspapers 1879-1988." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292131.

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Nilsson, Ninni. "Pragmatics, Newspapers and Context : A Study of How British Tabloid Newspapers Construct Context." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33201.

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While the original focus of pragmatics was spoken conversation, this approach has been increasingly used in the analysis of written and monological texts, e.g. advertisements (Tanaka, 1994), as a means of explaining how the meanings within them are generated and recovered through context. The range of texts subjected to pragmatics has thus far been somewhat limited and there is scope for applying pragmatics in other genres. The research for this essay was designed to explain the generation of implicatures in newspapers by relating a sample of articles to theoretical approaches offered within pragmatics, such as Relevance Theory and deixis. A number of semantic and stylistic devices are used in such articles, such as anaphora, metaphor and metonymy. These depend upon an expectation of reader familiarity with them and they are thus able to contribute to brevity and comprehension. While newspapers have been examined by scholars to some extent, the focus of these studies has been on headlines and not on entire articles. In this current study, three articles from different British tabloid papers were examined. The examination showed that the articles had many features in common and what was the most salient was that they require the reader to rely heavily on encyclopaedic knowledge. It turned out that writers keep their articles brief by withholding details or clarifying information from the reader, as they assume the reader are familiar with the phenomena mentioned. Anaphora is frequently used in tabloid newspaper articles as it also enables the writers to keep their articles brief, but also because it makes the articles more varied and less repetitive. Additionally, reader familiarity with metonymy, metaphor and deixis is necessary if the reader is to make sense of what an article means.

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Barth, Laura J. Stone Sara J. "Two of a kind comparing photographic media coverage for Hurricanes Katrina and Ike /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5360.

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Werngren, Filippa. "Critically Analysing Newspaper Discourse : A Study of Representation of Ideological Approaches in British Broadsheet Newspapers." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-36713.

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This is a linguistic study that focuses on language use in four British newspapers that are well known in Britain for their political positions. The main aim of this essay is to compare and con-trast different British newspapers in order to show how meaning is created and to identify any differences, depending on the discourse. To do this, specific theoretical frameworks have been applied, including critical discourse analysis, semantics, pragmatics and stylistics in the analysis of a number of different British newspapers. The analysis has shown that most of the interactions are used in all of the articles. Journalists have expressed many of the same arguments in their articles. The analysis showed that the arti-cles had many features in common and they require the reader to have a general political aware-ness as well as an understanding of the political leanings of the respective publications. It was discovered that the main difference in the articles is that they deviate from one another in how they present, interpret and relay topical and potentially controversial issues according to their leanings. The articles refer to the same stories and rely upon the same sources, but they pursue different angles, for example on national security, heritage and identity. These different ap-proaches mostly depend on the newspapers' and individual journalists' political leanings. There is a difference in which discoursal features, such as hegemony and subject positioning, are used, where they occur in the text and how frequently they occur. The determining factor for these differences appears to be, however, the nature of the topic and issues surrounding it rather than particular political affiliations of those responsible for producing it.

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Gross, Richard Robert. "Small newspapers, big changes awareness of market-driven journalism and consequences for community newspapers /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4152.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (January 25, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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McLarty, Amy Everbach Tracy Ellen. "Endangered newspaper an analysis of 10 years of corporate messages from the Dallas Morning News /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12162.

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Sivakumar, Gayathri. "Agricultural biotechnology and Indian newspapers." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1133.

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This study is designed to look into how agricultural biotechnology is covered by Indian newspapers. A through study of the literature showed that agricultural biotechnology is a much debated topic and there is a vast difference between the concerns expressed by its opponents in developed countries and those expressed by the opponents in developing countries. The research question was whether the sources used in an article determined the way in which this issue is framed. After conducting a content analysis of all articles written in Times of India between the time periods January 2001 - December 2003, it was found that the sources used did determine the way this issue was framed.

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Xia, Jue. "Economical Metaphors in English Newspapers." Thesis, Kristianstad University, Department of Teacher Education, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-6622.

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Hedrick, Jeffrey B. "A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF EDITORIAL REGIONALISM IN THE 1960s: MIDSIZE NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF NEW YORK TIMES V. SULLIVAN (1960-1964)." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1142533480.

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Ip, Sing-wai. "Evaluation of marketing strategies of Hong Kong newspapers /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13857782.

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Wong, Kwok-pun. "Heterogeneity of competitive behaviour under price taking competition : an empirical study of newspaper hawkers in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B23476394.

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Rodgers, Shelly. "Predicting sponsorship effects in E-newspapers using the sponsorship knowledge inventory /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9988697.

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Garrisi, D. "Reading skin in Victorian newspapers : an analysis of British newspapers' coverage of human skin, 1840-1900." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2015. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/9qvyq/reading-skin-in-victorian-newspapers-an-analysis-of-british-newspapers-coverage-of-human-skin-1840-1900.

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This thesis employs keyword-based searches in digital newspaper archives to identify recurrent patterns and themes in reports concerning human skin between the years 1840 and 1900 in Britain. The thesis argues that Victorian newspapers used the skin to foster three main Victorian social campaigns: the sanitation movement, which aimed at improving health and disseminating awareness about the importance of personal hygiene and cleanliness; the anti-Poor Law campaign, which created opposition to the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, in particular to the establishment of deterrent workhouses; and the campaign to abolish flogging in the military, a movement started earlier in the century which was to see its greatest achievement in 1881 with the official suppression of the practice after a long series of legal reforms. Regular news coverage of stories related to the human skin fulfilled two more purposes, the epistemological and the commercial. It enhanced the popular understanding of dermatology and attracted revenue in the form of advertisements from the booming skin products market. The thesis is broken down into six main chapters. Following the literature review and a methodological section, the third chapter shows the two main trends that dominated the media portrayal of the skin within both advertisements and news. The subsequent chapter explores how the idea of the skin as a stratified organ was disseminated through the news coverage of a flogging inquest by The Times newspaper. The fifth chapter continues examining The Times but moves from the anti-flogging campaign to the anti-Poor Law campaign. This section explores how the paper covered cases regarding the mistreated skin of the poorest classes and cases of death by starvation and neglect. The final chapter looks at the local and national news coverage of occupational skin diseases, with a focus on coal miners and chimney sweeps. The thesis proposes a new perspective on the history of journalism: it looks at the news coverage of a specific aspect of human anatomy and shows how this fitted the Victorian newspapers regarding four main social issues: public health, poverty, the conditions of soldiers and the condition of the working class.

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Jones, Adam. "The press in transition : a comparative study of Nicaragua, South Africa, Jordan, and Russia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0032/NQ38908.pdf.

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Chiu, Wai-yee Teresa, and 趙慧儀. "The newspaper industry in Hong Kong: a strategic analysis." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31266009.

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Weir, Gordon T. "Determinants of diffusion of electronic news media : an in-dept case study of the diffusion of a digital newspaper /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9904871.

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Miller, Karen L. "The stocks paradox what is the impact on business-news sections and business-news staff when newspapers cut stock listings? /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5985.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on April 14, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

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Collins, Alexander. ""A veritable Augustus": the life of John Winthrop Hackett, newspaper proprietor, politician and philanthropist (1848-1916)." Thesis, Collins, Alexander (2007) "A veritable Augustus": the life of John Winthrop Hackett, newspaper proprietor, politician and philanthropist (1848-1916). PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/710/.

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Irish-born Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916) achieved substantial political and social standing in Western Australia through his editorship and part-ownership of the West Australian newspaper, his position as a Legislative Council member and as a layman in the Anglican Church. The thesis illustrates his strong commitment to numerous undertakings, including his major role in the establishment of Western Australia's first University. This thesis will argue that whatever Hackett attempted to achieve in Western Australia, his philosophy can be attributed to his Irish Protestant background including his student days at Trinity College Dublin. After arriving in Australia in 1875 and teaching at Trinity College Melbourne until 1882, his ambitions took him to Western Australia where he aspired to be accepted and recognised by the local establishment. He was determined that his achievements would not only be acknowledged by his contemporaries, but also just as importantly be remembered in posterity. After a failed attempt to run a sheep station, he found success as part-owner and editor of the West Australian newspaper. Outside of his business interests, Hackett’s commitment to the Anglican Church was unflagging. At the same time, he was instrumental in bringing about the abolition of state aid to church schools in Western Australia, which he saw as advantaging the Roman Catholic Church. He was a Legislative Council member for 25 years during which time he used his editorship of the West Australian, to campaign successfully on a number of social, industrial and economic issues ranging from divorce reform to the provision of economic infrastructure. As a delegate to the National Australasian Conventions he continually strove to improve the conditions under which Western Australia would join Federation. His crowning achievement was to establish the state’s first university, which he also generously provided for in his will. One of the most influential men in Western Australian history, his career epitomised the energy and ambition of the well-educated immigrant.

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Collins, Alexander. ""A veritable Augustus" : the life of John Winthrop Hackett, newspaper proprietor, politician and philanthropist (1848-1916) /." Collins, Alexander (2007) "A veritable Augustus": the life of John Winthrop Hackett, newspaper proprietor, politician and philanthropist (1848-1916). PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/710/.

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Irish-born Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848-1916) achieved substantial political and social standing in Western Australia through his editorship and part-ownership of the West Australian newspaper, his position as a Legislative Council member and as a layman in the Anglican Church. The thesis illustrates his strong commitment to numerous undertakings, including his major role in the establishment of Western Australia's first University. This thesis will argue that whatever Hackett attempted to achieve in Western Australia, his philosophy can be attributed to his Irish Protestant background including his student days at Trinity College Dublin. After arriving in Australia in 1875 and teaching at Trinity College Melbourne until 1882, his ambitions took him to Western Australia where he aspired to be accepted and recognised by the local establishment. He was determined that his achievements would not only be acknowledged by his contemporaries, but also just as importantly be remembered in posterity. After a failed attempt to run a sheep station, he found success as part-owner and editor of the West Australian newspaper. Outside of his business interests, Hackett’s commitment to the Anglican Church was unflagging. At the same time, he was instrumental in bringing about the abolition of state aid to church schools in Western Australia, which he saw as advantaging the Roman Catholic Church. He was a Legislative Council member for 25 years during which time he used his editorship of the West Australian, to campaign successfully on a number of social, industrial and economic issues ranging from divorce reform to the provision of economic infrastructure. As a delegate to the National Australasian Conventions he continually strove to improve the conditions under which Western Australia would join Federation. His crowning achievement was to establish the state’s first university, which he also generously provided for in his will. One of the most influential men in Western Australian history, his career epitomised the energy and ambition of the well-educated immigrant.

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Umstead, Matthew E. "Effects of ownership and circulation on editorial presentation in West Virginia newspapers." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1723.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2000.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 145 p. : ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-54).

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Pace, Andrea Lynn. "Newspapers' Representations of Corporate Mass Layoffs." Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/52.

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Due to rising unemployment levels, researchers have begun to investigate how corporations handle layoffs and how they could manage them better in the future. Public relations practitioners can use this type of research to help organizations learn how to best maintain their images, reputations and productivity amid mass layoffs. When an organization conducts mass layoffs, its actions become both a current event and a public issue that is frequently discussed in newspaper articles. In order for downsizing organizations to be aware of the public?s perceptions of their layoff procedures, they should be aware of how the news media represents them. This study used a content analysis of different newspaper articles to determine how three downsizing organizations (General Motors, Caterpillar, and Boeing) were portrayed in the midst of mass layoffs. This study examined a sample of newspaper articles from two nationally-distributed daily newspapers (The New York Times and The Washington Post). It also included articles from daily newspaper that were located in the cities where the layoffs took place (The Detroit News, The Chicago Tribune, and The Seattle Times). The findings did not show that the newspapers? articles about the layoffs tended to be more prominent in the regional publications than in the national publications. While the articles were often prominently placed in the newspapers, the layoffs were not typically the primary focus of the articles. The reporters frequently included details of the layoffs, such as the number of layoff victims, in their articles. They also frequently included attributions of blame for the layoff decisions. The articles, however, rarely discussed socially responsible actions made on behalf of the downsizing companies.

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Berg, Mikaela. "Improving reading experience in digital newspapers." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-105537.

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Reading news on mobile devices has during the past decade transcended into an every- day activity, which induce greater demands on design and presentation of news. Several researchers have examined essential components in the area of digital newspapers, despite this, there are few newspapers that have switched to a reader-friendly format. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate how the reading experience in digital newspa- pers can be improved by abandoning the traditional structure of today’s printed newspapers. Based on numerous tests and studies, as well as support from literature, a set of guidelines has been produced as a result of this thesis. The design guidelines contain recommendations for optimal line size, typeface, point size, appearance, functionality, placement, recognition factor and packaging. To ensure quality, all guidelines were validated in order to prove that the reading experience had increased. An evaluation was performed that attempted to determine that. The statistic result of this thesis showed a significant difference in both reading speed and the subjective experience. However no significant difference could be seen regarding the reading comprehension. The conclusions made was that structure and design of content can influence both reading speed and reading experience. All design guidelines can be used as guidance when developing templates for digital newspapers.

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Alruwayeh, Marwah A. M. A. "Diglossic code-switching in Kuwaiti newspapers." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3409.

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The present study investigates the phenomenon of diglossic code-switching between Standard Arabic, as a High variety, and Kuwaiti Arabic, as a Low variety, in Kuwaiti newspaper articles. The study was precipitated by the paucity of research on the linguistic characteristics of newspaper discourse generated within this region as well as Kuwaiti perceptions towards this medium of communication. The frameworks adopted in this research were extended to novel contexts and were also utilised to gain new insights into several dimensions of diglossia, most of which have never been explored before. The findings of this study indeed revealed important insights into how diglosia is changing and how participants both use and perceive diglossic code-switching. The investigation was carried out to explore three main dimensions of code-switching in newspaper articles in Kuwait: changes in attitudes and frequency of code-switching use, the social motivations for it and the morphosyntactic constraints associated with it in this context. The first involves the study of changes in both language attitudes and in the frequency of code-switching in newspaper articles over the last 29-30 years. The second part of the study offers a social motivations’ analysis of code-switching in newspaper articles by appealing to the ideas captured in the Markedness Model (MM), proposed by Myers-Scotton 1993a. The primary goal of this element of the research was to seek explanations for the diglossic code-switching strategies identified in a sample of twelve newspaper articles. The third aspect explored in the research relates to the testing of the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model which applies specifically to the morphosyntactic constraints thought to operate in spoken code-switching contexts (Myers-Scotton 1993b, 2002). A key objective of the research overall was to evaluate the models themselves which have not, to my knowledge, been appraised heretofore using written data of this kind. In general terms, my findings regarding attitudinal change and code-switching frequency suggest that, despite the differences exhibited by a range of social variables, the nature of the attitudes expressed by the readers and columnists alike still reflect the traditional diglossic situation in Kuwait. Moreover, an analysis of language attitudes, ix employing the ‘apparent time’ hypothesis, shows that there is indeed a change in language attitudes in Kuwait between one generation and the next. This change, however, is contrary to predictions as it actually shows a favouring effect within the community at large for the H variety, i.e. SA. Non-parametric statistical analyses (specifically the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests) were selected as most appropriate for discriminating quantitative distinctions in the analysis of attitudes. Furthermore, an investigation of how common code-switching has become over the last three decades reveals that there is, in fact, static code-switching frequency, indicating that the practice of code-switching has remained relatively stable between 1985 and 2014-15. As for the second and third dimensions of the research, it was shown that the MM offers a very useful explanation of the linguistic behaviour of columnists and reveals the intricacies of their code-switching strategies which can be related to their understanding of community perceptions towards diglossic codeswitching in Kuwait as captured in other aspects of the research. A key finding with respect to the testing of the MLF model itself was how difficult it actually was to diglossic code-switching in a written context. My research clearly shows that the MLF approach does not, in fact, provide as much insight into the dynamics of the phenomenon as it clearly does when applied to conversational exchanges and this is partially due to the problems identified in my thesis regarding the analysis of Arabic code-switching in writing.

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Beck, Brian Douglas. "Self-Censorship in Rural Weekly Newspapers." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292239.

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Mojica, Rosalina Orocu. "Children: The Daily Newspapers' Forgotten Audience." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292246.

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Lovejoy, Jennette P. "A Content Analysis of Cancer News Coverage in Appalachian Ohio Community Newspapers." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1194969070.

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Murdock, Rachel Collier. "Media concentration and local, weekly newspapers a case study /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1217916400.

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Sporn, Henry Carleton University Dissertation Journalism. "Public opinion; the case for a quality Ottawa daily." Ottawa, 1992.

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Lee, Choi-sim. "The macro-structure of English and Chinese editorial in Hong Kong newspapers." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21185219.

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Chiang, Chi Meng Glydis. "A contrastive analysis of English and Chinese headlines of Hong Kong local news stories." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2002. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/487.

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Alshamrani, Saad Salem. "English borrowings in Saudi Arabian newspapers : a case study of three Saudi Arabian newspapers between 2010 and 2015." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=233493.

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In recent times, newspapers have been considered to be an important medium for providing people with news, views and many other sources of information from all over the world related to their daily lives. The language of any given newspaper is acknowledged as a modern form of any language which may unavoidably bear the influence of another language/s, particularly English in the modern era. Many studies have been carried out to investigate the influence of English on the language of newspapers in different languages from different perspectives. The current study is one of these studies. It is mainly concerned with investigating the influence of English on Arabic in the context of Saudi Arabian newspapers within a period of five years between 2010 and 2015, and in exploring the use of English borrowings during this period and how they unfolded over the years. Three Saudi newspapers were selected to be surveyed and all relevant English borrowings were extracted and classified according to five semantic categories: politics, economics, culture, sports, and science and technology. In addition, the study included a questionnaire to draw on the attitude and perceptions of a number of Saudi newspapers‟ readers and writers (377 participants) towards this linguistic practice. The result of the study suggests that English borrowings are diffused in the context of the selected Saudi newspapers and their use was applied to all designated semantic categories in both years; 2010 and 2015, with different levels of quantity and frequency under each semantic category. Also, the result suggests that there is a tendency among the Saudi participants to resist this linguistic practice.

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Ovesson, Fredrik, and Kristin Wikström. "From Visions to Specification : Using user designed mock-ups for envisioning user requirements for the future e-newspaper." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering (IDE), 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1825.

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In this paper we have studied how user designed mock-ups, together with video recordings,

can contribute in the process of generating user requirements when designing the future e-

newspaper. The mock-ups originate from future workshop carried out within the DigiNews

project. By analyzing user designed mock-ups to retrieve user requirements and evaluating

the results against a focus group and newspaper designers we gained understanding on how

mock-ups can contribute as data input in a user involved design process. The study concludes

that mock-ups are an effective tool for making use of users’ visions and opinions in a

dynamic design process.

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Kulminski, Stanislav, and Anton Stoyanov. "Online newspapers in transition economy : Success factors." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-19488.

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Online newspapers are a highly competitive business espe-cially in transition economies. Such factors as a small In-ternet advertising market, low penetration of the Internet and government relations play a vital role in success of an online newspaper. Thus, online newspaper business is sel-dom profitable in Ukraine. The purpose of this study is to define the factors of success of the Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda and the influence of media industry within the context of tran-sition economy.

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Szabo, Lisa Sara. "Wildwood notes : nature writing, music, and newspapers." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32691.

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During the first half of the twentieth century, British Columbia was comprised of small clusters of settlements connected by tracts of forests, rivers, coastal waters, rural farmland, rail lines, and few paved roads. While municipal newspapers formed local identities, provincial daily newspapers interconnected British Columbia's disparate towns and villages into wider regional affiliation. By examining the genre of the nature writing, particularly naturalist accounts disseminated through the newsprint, I propose that as the daily newspaper's medium brings the everyday into peoples' homes, the serial nature essay conveys a "unique syntax" of bioregional commonplace into the reader's day-to-day living. Newspapers bring the outside world into the intimate sphere of the home on a regular basis; A serial nature essay, especially one that focuses on the local, delivered in the medium of newsprint extends this outside world to include events occurring in nature. Further, I express how musical troping, a key characteristic of nature writing, teaches readers how to listen to and to detect the well-being/distress of a bioregional community, and thus cultivate an ethic of care for the natural environment; naturalist writing, thus acts as an antiphony to the deafening cacophony of environmental crisis news. My thesis examines, in particular, B.C. naturalist John William Winson's serial nature columns "Open Air Jottings" and "Along Wildwood Trails," which appeared in the Vancouver Daily Province from 1918 to 1956. John Winson's writings, written under the pseudonym 'Wildwood', invite the communities of British Columbia to envision membership in a wider Pacific Northwest bioregional community—a relationship that sees beyond and dissolves the divisions of political and geographic borders, species, and human culture. By recuperating and re-reading Wildwood's "forgotten naturalist" column, specifically disseminated through newsprint, I analyze how his writings both promote and complicate the formation of a Pacific Northwest regional identity; specifically, the tensions between the genre's imperialistic frameworks (First Nations representation and literary ecological imperialism), which domesticate new lands for immigrants and the transformative experiences resulting from encounters with new environments and cultures, experiences that require new ways of seeing and interacting.
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Hossain, Sheikh Mohammad Anwar. "How is Bangladesh represented in Swedish Newspapers?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-155677.

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Out of many, media is one of our important sources from where we know the world, we learn about society, about our surroundings, about the others. Regardless of time and space media is shaping our knowledge, changing the horizon of our imagination each and every moment. This study is about representation. How a country as the other is represented in Swedish media landscape. I tried to know -How is Bangladesh represented in Swedish newspapers? I have collected reports about Bangladesh that was published in four main stream Swedish newspapers and conducted a quantitative content analysis through the lenses of Agenda setting, Priming and Framing theory from the post colonial perspective to know how Bangladesh is represented in Swedish newspapers. The results found in this study are more similar to the earlier studies conducted by researchers and further suggests that the framing of Bangladesh, ‘the others as a country’ in the foreign news in Swedish newspapers are dominated by pre-framed notions and images of the source; which is subjected to conduct further study in general or for any particular country.

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