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Chang, Li-jing Arthur. "Job satisfaction, dissatisfaction of Texas newspaper reporters /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Lim, Jeongsub. "Contextual effects of geographic, economic, political regions on issue salience and salience of an issue's attributes hierarchical linear modeling of agenda setting /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6000.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--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 December 28, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth Lambiase Jacqueline. "Ethical decision making in the Indian mediascape reporters and their stories /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-10981.
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Kasoma, Twange. "Brown envelope journalism and professionalism in development reporting : a comparison of Zambia and Ghana /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421614521&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-206). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Xie, Shuxiang. "Dao jin zi ta shi xin wen bao dao de yu pian gui lü : yi Xianggang "Ming bao" she hui xin wen wei yu liao de tan tao = Discourse principles in inverted pyramid news reporting : study of the social news of Ming Pao /." click here to view the abstract and table of contents, 2001. http://net3.hkbu.edu.hk/~libres/cgi-bin/thesisab.pl?pdf=b17041193a.pdf.
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Lau, Yung Simon. "A survey of language use, language needs, and language requirement of Hong Kong Cantonese-speaking reporters." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1996. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/77.
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Boyer, Lauren Marie Curley John J. "Budgeting the budget an analysis of four daily newspapers' coverage of the 2009/2010 Pennsylvania budget impasse /." [University Park, Pa.] : Pennsylvania State University, 2009. http://honors.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/EHT-11/index.html.
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Goulart, Dorothy. "How Social Workers' Perceptions as Mandated Reporters May Impact Reporting Suspected Child Abuse." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5711.
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Child maltreatment is a worldwide concern. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, social workers are mandated reporters. When there is reasonable suspicion, they are required by law to report suspected child maltreatment to the appropriate Child Protective Services office. In this study, the research problem was the underreporting of child maltreatment, even when reasonable suspicion existed. The purpose of this study, as reflected in the research questions, was to understand social workers' perceptions of their role as mandated reporters, to explore how their perceptions impacted reporting, and to develop recommendations that could be implemented to help ensure appropriate reporting. An action research study was conducted with master's level social workers in southern Virginia. Symbolic interaction theory was used in researching the social workers' role and their perceptions as mandated reporters interacting with clients. Qualitative data were collected from a focus group of 6 social workers and analyzed using specific coding protocols. Six themes emerged: (a) importance of the role of social worker as a mandated reporter, (b) role conflict, (c) negative consequences, (d) feelings, (e) increased knowledge of child abuse laws, and (f) education of clients. The findings of this study may be used by regulators and agency personnel to design education, training, and supervision to help ensure social workers are prepared to appropriately respond to mandated reporting requirements.
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Chou, Cathy Kai-i. "Organizational attachment of newspaper reporters how professional sentiments come into play /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4547.
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Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.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 August 22, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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John, Sue Lockett. "The effects of newspaper competition on local news reporting and content diversity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6164.
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Sternadori, Miglena Wise Kevin Robert. "Cognitive processing of news as a function of structure a comparison between inverted pyramid and chronology /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6643.
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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 25, 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. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Kevin Wise. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Davidow, Audrey Beth. ""Making the News": a case study of East Cape News (ECN)." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002877.
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To fully comprehend the complex process of news making, we must first understand that the events we read about everyday in the newspaper are not merely a reflection of the world in which we live. News does not just happen. Rather, it is a socially constructed product in which events are “made to mean” (Hall, 1978). Thus, the news plays a fundamental role in shaping our interpretations of reality - our perceptions of the world as we know it. Informed by a structuralist approach to news making, this research provides a detailed ethnographic study of the determinants that shape and produce news in the South African print media. I provide examples of the influence various factors, operating at all levels, exert within the news making process. The research focuses on the news production process at East Cape News Pty. Ltd. (ECN) a small news agency operating in the peripheral news region of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. It considers the journalistic routines and interests of the ECN reporters; how these reporters select events and turn them into news, how they interpret their significance and how they formulate them as news stories. The research also considers the second stage of selection ECN news must pass before it is read by the public - the “gates” of external newspapers. In this section, the study is primarily concerned with which ECN news stories succeed past the gates of national newspapers as these are the newpapers that play an influential role in shaping national perceptions of the marginalised Eastern Cape region. A province burdened with devastating rural poverty, unstable government, and little economic growth, the Eastern Cape warrants little coverage from the national, Johannesburg-based news market. As a result, little news of the Eastern Cape is published nationally, further perpetuating the region’s perceived insignificance on a national level. This point also demonstrates the fact that news both shapes, and is shaped by, our ideologies. News, therefore is ideological (Fishman, 1977). My findings reinforce many of the observations of other media researchers informed by a structuralist approach in the field of news making. However, some elements of news making emerge which appear to be unique in terms of other studies of news making. These elements are primarily a result of ECN’s informal organisational structures which allow the journalists a greater level of autonomy than a larger more bureaucratic organisation might. Thus, in addition to considering the structures that shape the news, I also discuss the role of human agency in making the news.
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Morris, John L. "Citizen-based reporting : a study of attitudes toward audience interaction in journalism /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9951123.
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Tapsell, Ross. "A history of Australian journalism in Indonesia." School of History and Politics, Faculty of Arts, 2009. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3028.
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This thesis examines the changing professional practice of Australian journalists since they began reporting in Indonesia from 1945. Existing literature on the Australian media in Indonesia has emphasised the problem of biased and troublesome Australian journalists who have deliberately caused bilateral relations disturbances between Australia and Indonesia. It is argued that the existing literature overstates the agency of Australian journalists, and downplays the attitudes and roles of governments and news forces in the shaping of journalists’ professional practice. This thesis will show how Australian journalists and their Indonesian staff have attempted to report what they saw as the ‘truth’ from the archipelago, yet have been subjected to numerous pressures and vii constraints that hinders their professional practice and limits their autonomy. In particular, Indonesian staff working for Australian news agencies have been subjected to numerous pressures from a hierarchical system of newsgathering and from their own government. The Indonesian Government and military have attempted to control the flow of news through often crude and violent tactics to hinder journalists’ professional practice. The Australian Government, which supports the notion of a free press, has also limited Australian journalists’ professional practice in Indonesia. The news system requirement for journalists to seek elite sources and the improvements in communications technology have also hindered the freedoms for Australian journalists as they operate from Indonesia. Thus, it is argued that Australian journalists in Indonesia and their local staff have worked under a range of constraints and have been pressured to serve a variety of competing masters in reporting from the archipelago. Their work has to be understood as a complex artefact crafted in response to this range of insistent and intrusive pressures.
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Erickson, Loretta Eileen. "The newswriting process : a protocol analysis case study of a practicing journalist." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/539787.
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The general purpose of this study was to duplicate research conducted by Beverley Joyce Miller Pitts, Ph.D., regarding the newswriting process of practicing journalists. (Future reference regarding this study will be termed the Pitts study.) In an effort to update previous research, this study sought to: review literature published between 1981 and 1987, update research conducted since 1981, support or disprove previous findings as documented in the Pitts study, and provide further research regarding the journalist's newswriting process. The study was conducted separately from previous research; thereby adopting an objective atmosphere in which research and data were obtained. The methodology and procedure of this study were replicated from the Pitts study to ensure consistency in research methods. All analyses, discussions, summaries, conclusions, observations, and recommendations, presented in this study, are based solely on data gathered during the research and presentation phases of this study.Department of Journalism
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Owanda, Annette Marina Soungue. "Journalists and public relations practitioners : different role perspectives." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1425.
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Thesis (MTech (Public Relations Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010Main objectives The purpose of this study is to investigate the dual perceptions of a selected group of public relations practitioners and journalists, who interact at Media24 (the print media business section of Naspers, a leading multinational media group) in CapeTown. These perceptions, by public relations practitioners and journalists, are of self and each other's professional objectives, skills and ability, function, and their relationships. The research aims to determine whether it is possible, through perception definition of each category from two points of view (perception of self and perception of other), to find sufficient common grounds first to understand and then to optimise the relationship between public relations practitioners and journalists. Research design and methodology An accidental quota, non-random sample of 15 (fifteen) journalists and 15 (fifteen) public relations practitioners was selected based on their interaction at Media24 in CapeTown. A single self administered questionnaire distributed to the combined sample group was used to gather data. The results obtained from the questionnaire were analysed in three parts; a) the combined group of journalists and public relations practitioners; b) public relations practitioners only and c) journalists only. Analysis, conclusions and recommendations included a comparison of the differences and similarities between the two groups. Keyfindings Keyfindings include: The majority of public relations practitioners interacting with Media24 on a corporate communication level do not belong to a professional body. The majority of public relations practitioners interacting with Media24 on a corporate communication level lacked clarity in defining their own professional objectives and functional role. The self-perception of the majority of public relations practitioners interacting with Media 24 on a corporate communication level was less positive than the perceptions of the journalists of public relations practitioners.
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Reid, Sian Lee MacDonald Carleton University Dissertation Religion. "A portrait of Janus; the social construction of witchcraft in The Ottawa Citizen, 1980-1989." Ottawa, 1992.
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Botha, Nicolene. "Dispatches from the front : war reporting as news genre, with special reference to news flow." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/916.
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Thesis (MPhil (Journalism))--Stellenbosch University, 2007.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During Gulf War II, the American government implemented new media policies which, due to their potentially manipulative impact, became a subject of concern to academics, social commentators and the media alike. Key to these policies was the Department of Defense's Embedded Media Program which allowed hundreds of selected reporters to accompany US forces to the war front. The US openly tried to win international support for the war, and critics felt that this policy was designed to saturate the media with reports supporting the American point of view. This study examines these policies, the history of war reporting as a separate news genre, as well as the fluctuating relations between the US military and the media. Because of the US media policies, the fact that only one South African newspaper reporter was in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom phase of the war and South African newspapers' consequent reliance on foreign news sources, there was a real possibility that the American position would be propagated in the local press. To test whether this was the case, the way the war was reported on in four leading South African newspapers is examined in terms of gatekeeping, agendasetting and framing. Using an adapted version op Propp's fairytale analysis as a standard, it compares the slant and content of the South African coverage to the way four senior US government officials presented the war. Also, the coverage of the newspapers is compared to one another. The analyses indicate that while most of the information published by the newspapers came from American sources, the news reports generally did not mirror the US standpoint, but instead criticised President Bush and the war on Iraq. Neither the frequency of the newspapers, nor its cultural background showed any correlation with the way the war was depicted by the different newspapers. It is therefore concluded that while the US might have been successful in their attempt to "occupy the media territory" in terms of sources cited, they were not able to sway the opinion of the South African press in their favour. However, the US is aware of these failures and plans to rectify the mistakes made in Gulf War II by means of proactive global operations started in times of peace.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Tydens die Tweede Golfoorlog het die Amerikaanse regering 'n nuwe mediabeleid ingestel wat weens die potensieel manipulerende impak daarvan ’n bron van kommer vir akademici, sosiale kommentators en die media self geword het. Sentraal tot hierdie nuwe beleid was die Departement van Verdediging se sogenaamde "Embedded Media Program" wat honderde uitgesoekte joernaliste toegelaat het om Amerikaanse magte na die oorlogsfront te vergesel. Die VSA het openlik probeer om internasionale steun vir die oorlog te werf en kritici het gevoel dat dié beleid ontwerp is om die media met nuusberigte wat die Amerikaanse standpunt steun, te versadig. Hierdie studie ondersoek dié beleid, die geskiedenis van oorlogsverslaggewing as afsonderlike nuus-genre, asook die wisselvallige verhouding tussen die Amerikaanse weermag en die media. Weens die Amerikaanse mediabeleid, die feit dat slegs een Suid-Afrikaanse koerantverslaggewer tydens die Operation Iraqi Freedom fase van die oorlog in Irak was en Suid-Afrikaanse koerante gevolglik van buitelandse nuusbronne afhanklik was, was daar 'n werklike moontlikheid dat die Amerikaanse posisie deur die plaaslike pers gepropageer kon word. Om te toets of dit die geval was, is die manier waarop in vier vooraanstaande Suid-Afrikaanse koerante oor die oorlog berig is, ondersoek in terme van hekwagterskap, agendastelling en raamskepping. Deur 'n aangepaste weergawe van Propp se feëverhaalanalise as maatstaf te gebruik, is die neiging en inhoud van die Suid- Afrikaanse dekking vergelyk met die manier waarop vier senior Amerikaanse amptenare die oorlog voorgehou het. Die koerante se dekking is ook met mekaar vergelyk. Die analises wys dat hoewel die meeste van die inligting wat deur die koerante gepubliseer is van Amerikaanse bronne kom, die nuusberigte oor die algemeen nie die Amerikaanse standpunt weerspieël nie, maar eerder krities teenoor President Bush en die oorlog teen Irak is. Nie die frekwensie van die koerante of die kulturele agtergrond daarvan het enige korrelasie getoon met die manier waarop die oorlog deur die verskillende koerante uitgebeeld is nie. Die gevolgtrekking word gemaak dat hoewel die VSA moontlik daarin geslaag het om die "mediaterrein te okkupeer" in terme van aangehaalde bronne, het hulle nie daarin geslaag om die Suid-Afrikaanse pers se opinie in hul guns te swaai nie. Die VSA is egter bewus van die foute wat tydens die Tweede Golfoorlog gemaak is en beplan om dit deur middel van proaktiewe globale operasies in vredestyd reg te stel.
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Cabrera-Iwaki, Adolfo-Anthoni. "Producción de reportajes en la sección “Nacional” de la revista Caretas: de la concepción del tema a la construcción narrativa." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad de Lima, 2017. http://repositorio.ulima.edu.pe/handle/ulima/5106.
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Van, Velden D. P. "Responsibility of media coverage and media attitudes towards science and technology /." Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/921.
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Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth. "Ethical Decision Making in the Indian Mediascape: Reporters and Their Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc10981/.
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Hundreds of reporters gather and interpret news for four English-language newspapers in India's second-largest urban area Kolkata, West Bengal's state capital, which is home to over 4 million people. Journalists from The Statesman, The Telegraph-Kolkata, The Hindustan Times and The Times of India discuss how they collect their stories in Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and many other languages and write them in English targeting a small but emerging middle-class audience. Whether these articles focus on people-centric urban planning, armed vigilantes in community disputes, dowry death cases, or celebrity culture, all of the reporting involves cultural and ethical challenges. Using semi-structured interviewing and qualitative theme analysis, this study explores how gender, class, and religion affect the decision-making practices of 21 journalists working in Kolkata.
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Lei, Huiming. "Dui bi "Dong fang ri bao" yu "Da gong bao" de zi you xing kuang jia de yi tong /." click here to view the abstract and table of contents, 2005. http://net3.hkbu.edu.hk/~libres/cgi-bin/thesisab.pl?pdf=b19816534a.pdf.
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Ng, Yu Leung. "How prosocial and alarm words predict online reads, responses, and relays." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/393.
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This thesis empirically investigates alarm and prosocial words in online news headlines and the associated reads (the number of clicks), responses (including the number of likes, dislikes, and comments), and relays (the number of shares). I analyze over 170,000 online news headlines and mainly the associated number of reads and likes for each news story on an online news platform. Theoretically, based on the meta-level evolutionary theory－evolution by natural selection－I propose a middle-level evolutionary model of prosocial media effects from a nature-nurture interactive perspective. Then, I propose a specific evolutionary model that was derived from the proposed middle-level model, the human alarm system for sensational news, a psychological mechanism designed to detect and concern threatening news. I generate research questions from the specific model to test whether news headlines with alarm words attract more likes as a survival concern indirectly through an increased number of reads as a selection device, and whether prosocial words in headlines serve as a moderator. The results of a conditional indirect effect model showed that given that online readers click on (i.e, read) news headlines with alarm words, the fact that it has a prosocial word in the headlines leads readers more likely to "like" it. The empirical findings' theoretical and methodological contributions, research agenda, and examples of implications for future studies are discussed.
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Chow, Lam Yan Joyce. "TV news anchor's & audience's perception of journalistic professionalism in Hong Kong." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/682.
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Groves, Jonathan Perry Earnest L. "Understanding the change to integration an organizational analysis of a small newspaper /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6846.
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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 23, 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. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Earnest Perry. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Zhao, Evelyn Pei. "A comparative study on reporting the incident of parallel traders in two newspapers in Hong Kong." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2016. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/143.
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The present study is based on the critical discourse analysis, and it aims to examine the relationship between linguistic expressions and underlying values in the news reports. The study focuses on the incident of parallel traders happened in Hong Kong in the year of 2015, and it tries to examine how the incident was framed by the two local newspapers, and hopes to unpack the repo11ing perspectives represented in the two newspapers. 本研究基于批评性话语分析，它旨在表达新闻报道中的语言表达和价值之间的关系。此研究关注于香港2015年发生的水货客的抗议事件，着力探讨香港两家地方报纸如何报道此次事件，并试图对两家报纸的报道角度做简单分析。
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Sias, Jennifer Nicole. "Telling God's sanction : storytelling in the narrative journalism, memoirs, and creative nonfiction of Rick Bragg /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2003. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=239.
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Liu, Yu. "Professional communicators and mouthpiece operators : dual identity of Chinese journalists in CCTV." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/817.
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Wang, Xiaolin. "Exploration into nominalization in English and Chinese news reports of economic issues." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2010. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1206.
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Bottomley, John Arthur. "A mediated crisis: news and the national mind." Thesis, Bottomley, John Arthur (2008) A mediated crisis: news and the national mind. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2008. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/446/.
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The thesis examines a mediated crisis and how The Straits Times and The Australian approach the reporting of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). It looks at how this mediated crisis exemplifies the culture of the national newspaper and in turn how the national newspaper has an historical influence on the national psyche. A total of 649 reports and headlines and 141 letters about SARS in The Straits Times (including The Straits Time Interactive) were examined from April 2003 to November 2003 as were 125 headlines from The Australian.
The early sections of the thesis discuss how a crisis makes news; examine how the media report a crisis and what emphasis is given to aspects such as: actors, primary definers, vocabulary, lexical choices, subjects, themes, issues and value dimension or stance. The first chapter defines crisis, journalism and crisis journalism and discusses where the latter sits within the continuing expansion and development of major theoretical frameworks, including living in a risk society. The implication here is that crisis and risk have a symbiotic relationship.
Historical perspectives of news are discussed in Chapter 2, and the newspaper is placed within the context of contemporary media. The chapter discusses how newspapers are aligned with the concept of the national mind and demonstrates the roles and formations of the two newspapers in relation to the SARS crisis.
Chapter 3 codes the headlines, article titles and subtitles of The Straits Times and The Australian and using content analysis of the headlines, analyses the reporting of a serious health crisis SARS that lasted from March to November, 2003. The quantification within content analysis enables a researcher to read and interpret questions that relate to the intensity of meaning in texts, their social impact, the relationships between media texts and the realities and representations they reflect (Hansen et al, 1998). The theory and method of content analysis is used in this chapter to consider differences between The Straits Times and The Australian and to exemplify the media's representation of the narratives of SARS as it happened in the countries of Singapore and Australia.
Aspects of crisis and risk, the newspaper and the national mind, narratives, presentations, and post SARS events are discussed in the last chapter. It is concluded from these discussions there is a world narrative that tells the story of how the human condition likes to live and rely on a safe social environment always being available. The relationship between a mediated crisis and risk are also discussed. In addition, it is maintained that reporting in 2003 was not just about SARS but a way of reporting that allowed one to view journalism as an aid to good governance, particularly with regard to living in a risk and crisis-ridden society.
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Bottomley, John Arthur. "A mediated crisis : news and the national mind /." Bottomley, John Arthur (2008) A mediated crisis: news and the national mind. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 2008. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/446/.
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The thesis examines a mediated crisis and how The Straits Times and The Australian approach the reporting of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). It looks at how this mediated crisis exemplifies the culture of the national newspaper and in turn how the national newspaper has an historical influence on the national psyche. A total of 649 reports and headlines and 141 letters about SARS in The Straits Times (including The Straits Time Interactive) were examined from April 2003 to November 2003 as were 125 headlines from The Australian.
The early sections of the thesis discuss how a crisis makes news; examine how the media report a crisis and what emphasis is given to aspects such as: actors, primary definers, vocabulary, lexical choices, subjects, themes, issues and value dimension or stance. The first chapter defines crisis, journalism and crisis journalism and discusses where the latter sits within the continuing expansion and development of major theoretical frameworks, including living in a risk society. The implication here is that crisis and risk have a symbiotic relationship.
Historical perspectives of news are discussed in Chapter 2, and the newspaper is placed within the context of contemporary media. The chapter discusses how newspapers are aligned with the concept of the national mind and demonstrates the roles and formations of the two newspapers in relation to the SARS crisis.
Chapter 3 codes the headlines, article titles and subtitles of The Straits Times and The Australian and using content analysis of the headlines, analyses the reporting of a serious health crisis SARS that lasted from March to November, 2003. The quantification within content analysis enables a researcher to read and interpret questions that relate to the intensity of meaning in texts, their social impact, the relationships between media texts and the realities and representations they reflect (Hansen et al, 1998). The theory and method of content analysis is used in this chapter to consider differences between The Straits Times and The Australian and to exemplify the media's representation of the narratives of SARS as it happened in the countries of Singapore and Australia.
Aspects of crisis and risk, the newspaper and the national mind, narratives, presentations, and post SARS events are discussed in the last chapter. It is concluded from these discussions there is a world narrative that tells the story of how the human condition likes to live and rely on a safe social environment always being available. The relationship between a mediated crisis and risk are also discussed. In addition, it is maintained that reporting in 2003 was not just about SARS but a way of reporting that allowed one to view journalism as an aid to good governance, particularly with regard to living in a risk and crisis-ridden society.
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Van, Velden David Pieter. "Responsibility of media coverage and media attitudes towards science and technology." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3379.
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Thesis (MPhil (Journalism)--University of Stellenbosch, 2008.The media have a great responsibility to communicate more science to improve public understanding of science to help them make sense of their world. The aim should be to popularize scientific ideas and to create a better understanding of how science is daily altering lifestyles and culture. Scientific literacy is an important element of an all-round educated person, and the media need to fill whatever blanks have been left by his or her formal education. The function of the scientific journalist is to transform scientific ideas and results into a form that other groups can understand. This transformation is as much an intra-scientific as well as an extra-scientific matter, and the forms that such communication take and the consequences for intellectual development vary according to the sort of field involved, the audience addressed and the relationship between them. This transformation process must not affect the truth status of scientific knowledge, but it obviously changes the form in which this knowledge is expressed. Scientists need to unveil the secrets of nature, and need to explain to the public that science is always incomplete and incremental, that knowledge is imperfect. Communicating with the media is becoming an obligation, and popularizing of science is becoming an integral part of the professional responsibility of practicing scientists. This overview indicates that there is a need for scientists to increase their communication skills and activities across a broad field and for journalists to increase their understanding and training in science.
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Ohkura, Yoshiko. "Japanese newspapers: their role and limitations in environmental reporting : case study: the Isahaya Bay land reclamation project issue /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envo37.pdf.
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Ting, Tin-yuet, and 丁天悦. "The influence of globalization on foreign news: insights from German press coverage of China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45985558.
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Dipaolo, William P. "The changing relationship between urban planners and journalists as newspapers move increasingly toward stronger local news coverage." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115230.
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Planners can have the best ideas and the most progressive projects in the world. But if the local newspaper doesn't write about them, nobody will know about them. And if nobody knows about them, they might as well never have been done. Newspaper reporters and planners are going through a drastic change in their historically distant relationship. Increasingly, television news, USA Today and the Internet have replaced newspapers as the prime source for international and national news. Newspapers are now concentrating on local news. This is a golden opportunity for planners to not only raise the clout of their agency, but increase public support for their ideas. More coverage means more media scrutiny of planning issues. Understanding basic newspaper processes, and maintaining positive relationships with newspaper reporters, is a growing part of a successful planner's job.Department of Urban Planning
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Wong, Lam Cheng. "Development of Japanese influence on Hong Kong film industry through Hong Kong newspaper, 1950-1979." Thesis, University of Macau, 2015. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3335318.
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Cartmell, David Dwayne. "Arkansas daily newspaper editors attitudes toward agriculture and the gatekeeping criteria used when publishing agricultural news /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3012956.
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Genis, Amelia. "Numbers count: the importance of numeracy for journalists." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52371.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Few news subjects or events can be comprehensively covered in the media without numbers being used. Indeed, most reports are essentially 'number stories', or could be improved through the judicious use of numbers. Despite this there are frequent complaints about poor levels of numeracy among journalists. Although numbers are fundamental to virtually everything they write, the most superficial review of South African newspapers indicates that most encounters between journalists and numbers of any sort are uncomfortable, to say the least. Reporters shy away from using numbers, and frequently resort to vague comments such as "many", "more", "worse" or "better". When reports do include numbers, they often don't make sense, largely because journalists are unable to do simple calculations and have little understanding of concepts such as the size of the world's population, a hectare, or a square kilometer. They frequently use numbers to lend weight to their facts without having the numerical skills to question whether the figures are correct. Numeracy is not the ability to solve complicated mathematical problems or remember and use a mass of complicated axioms and formulas; it's a practical life skill. For journalists it is the ability to understand the numbers they encounter in everyday life - percentages, exchange rates, very large and small amounts - and the ability to ask intelligent questions about these numbers before presenting them meaningfully in their reports. This thesis is not a compendium of all the mathematical formulas a journalist could ever need. It is a catalogue of the errors that are frequently made, particularly in newspapers, and suggestions to improve number usage. It will hopefully also serve to make journalists aware of the potential of numbers to improve reporting and increase accuracy. This thesis emphasises the importance of basic numeracy for all journalists, primarily by discussing the basic numerical skills without which they cannot do their job properly, but also by noting the concerns of experienced journalists, mathematicians, statisticians and educators about innumeracy in the media. Although the contents of this thesis also apply to magazine, radio and television journalists, it is primarily aimed at their counterparts at South Africa's daily and weekly newspapers. I hope the information contained herein is of use to journalists and journalism students; that it will open their eyes to the possibility of improving number usage and thereby reporting, serve as encouragement to brush up their numerical skills, and help to shed light on the numbers which surround them and which they use so readily.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Min nuusonderwerpe of -gebeure kan in beriggewing tot hul reg kom sonder dat enige getalle gebruik word. Trouens, die meeste berigte is in wese 'syferstories', of kan verbeter word deur meer sinvolle gebruik van syfers. Tog is daar vele klagtes oor joemaliste se gebrekkige syfervaardigheid. Ten spyte van die ingeworteldheid van getalle in haas alles wat hulle skryf, toon selfs die mees oppervlakkige ondersoek na syfergebruik in Suid-Afrikaanse koerante joemaliste se ongemaklike omgang met die meeste syfers. Hulle is skugter om syfers te gebruik, en verlaat hulle dikwels op vae kommentaar soos "baie", "meer", "erger" of "beter". Indien hulle syfers gebruik, maak die syfers dikwels nie sin nie: meermale omdat joemaliste nie basiese berekeninge rondom persentasies en statistiek kan doen nie, en min begrip het vir algemene groothede soos die wereldbevolking, 'n hektaar of 'n vierkante kilometer. Hulle sal dikwels enige syfer gebruik omdat hulle meen dit verleen gewig aan hul feite en omdat hulle nie die syfervaardigheid het om dit te bevraagteken nie. Syfervaardigheid is nie die vermoe om suiwer wiskunde te doen of 'n magdom stellings en formules te onthou en gebruik nie; dis 'n praktiese lewensvaardigheid, die vermoe om die syferprobleme wat die daaglikse roetine oplewer - persentasies, wisselkoerse, baie groot en klein getalle- te verstaan en te hanteer. Hierdie tesis is nie 'n versameling van alle berekeninge wat joemaliste ooit sal nodig kry nie; maar veel eerder 'n beskrywing van die potensiaal van syfers om verslaggewing te verbeter en joemaliste te help om ag te slaan op die getalle rondom hulle en die wat hulle in hul berigte gebruik. Die doel van die tesis is om die belangrikheid van 'n basiese syfervaardigheid vir alle joemaliste te beklemtoon, veral die basiese syfervaardighede waarsonder joemaliste nie die verslaggewingtaak behoorlik kan aanpak nie, te bespreek, en ook om ervare joemaliste, wiskundiges, statistici en opvoeders se kommer oor joemaliste se gebrek aan syfervaardigheid op te teken. Hoewel alles wat in die tesis vervat is, ewe veel van toepassing is op tydskrif-, radio- en televisiejoemaliste, val die klem hoofsaaklik op hul ewekniee by Suid-Afrikaanse dag- en weekblaaie. Ek hoop die inligting hierin vervat sal van nut wees vir praktiserende joemaliste en joemalistiekstudente om hulle bewus te maak van die moontlikhede wat bestaan om syfergebruik, en uiteindelik verslaggewing, te verbeter en as aanmoediging dien om hul syfervaardigheid op te skerp.
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Yani, Buni. "Reporting the Maluku Sectarian Conflict: The Politics of Editorship in Kompas and Republika Dailies." Ohio : Ohio University, 2002. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1016115882.
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Kabeta, Jacqueline Milambo. "An investigation of the relationship between journalists and their news sources: a case study of The Post newspaper in Zambia." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002892.
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Normative professional journalism and the need to re-evaluate the structural social context of journalism practice and its role in emerging democracies has led to the increased scrutiny of journalists and their relationship to news sources. This study conceptualises the relationship between journalists and news sources as a dual process of consensus and conflict of interests in the newsgathering practice in Zambia, an emerging democracy. The study suggests that journalists actively pursue powerful individuals in society such as those in government, pressure groups and business as news sources who have been available and suitable in the past. Journalists’ view of society as bureaucratically organised and the short turn-around time of news production are among the organisational factors attributed to this tendency. This study adopts a sociological approach to investigate the journalist-news source relationship at The Post, in Zambia, by factoring in the perspectives of social organisation of newswork and political economy. Whereas the social organisation perspective focuses on the organisational and occupational demands of journalists, political economy reinforces the larger context of journalist-news source interaction in a society. Additionally, the social constructivist theory, which is premised around the idea that the agenda and content of journalism production, is in part a product of non-journalistic social factors is useful in understanding the various influences on the relationship. The study investigates the nature of the journalist-news source relationship using two diametrically opposed views – the dominant (exchange) and competitive (adversarial) paradigms. This is aimed at establishing whether the relationship is an exchange or adversarial. While the latter relationship is common in liberal democracies where the media are seen as part of elite structures with considerable power on their own, the thinking is that inequalities in resource distribution and political power generate social tensions in developing countries that require media to be carefully managed. Using qualitative semi-structured interviews and observation methods, this study establishes that while the adversarial role has an attraction for the journalists investigated, the exchange model comes closest to describing the nature of relationship they share with their news sources.
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Schildkraut, Jaclyn V. "Homicide in the headlines an analysis of the newspaper reporting of Baltimore homicides of 2010." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5027.
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Baltimore is notorious for its recent and storied history of crime. The current study examines the treatment of homicide victims in Baltimore newspapers. In 2010, 222 homicides occurred in Baltimore, according to the city's homicide map. One hundred and sixty-five were discussed in The Baltimore Sun, the city's most-circulated paper. Based on the inclusion or exclusion of particular cases and the manner in which cases were discussed, conclusions can be drawn about the media's perception of a case's newsworthiness. Specifically, cases with particular details that varied significantly from a "normal" homicide were found to be most newsworthy, determined in part by analyzing the frequency of reporting, placement of coverage within the newspaper, and word count allocated to the discussion of crime.ID: 029810530; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-76).
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Dworznik, Gretchen J. "The Psychology of Local News: Compassion Fatigue and Posttraumatic Stress in Broadcast Reporters, Photographers, and Live Truck Engineers." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1210513135.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Sept. 28, 2009). Advisor: Stan Wearden. Keywords: journalism; trauma; broadcasting; reporting; television; posttraumatic stress; compassion fatigue. Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-184).
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Robinson, Suzanne B. "Proprietary postsecondary education : an examination of how perceptions of higher education writers at daily newspapers affect coverage." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115763.
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Higher education is one of the most expensive services an individual will ever purchase, yet many question whether enough information is available to higher education consumers to make informed decisions. The objective of this study was to determine the degree of personal experience higher education writers at selected major daily newspapers have with for-profit colleges and how those experiences affect the perceptions they have of the colleges. The second objective of the research focused on how much coverage for-profit colleges receive based on workforce projections, compared to traditional colleges.The study tested two hypsothees:1. Higher education staff writers at the selected major daily newspapers have little personal experience with for-profit, degree-granting colleges, compared to traditional colleges, resulting in neutral-to-negative perceptions.2. Despite predictions that a high percentage of jobs will require an education beyond high school but not necessarily a traditional four-year college degree, for-profit colleges receive less coverage than traditional colleges in the selected major daily newspapers.A five-page questionnaire was mailed to the person covering higher education at the major daily newspaper in mature ITT Technical Institute markets. Questions related to the amount of personal contact the journalists have with proprietary colleges and the perceptions they hold of these colleges as well as what they believe their readers' higher education needs are. Writers were also asked to indicate their agreement with several workforce projections and to report how many articles on specific topics were published in the last year. The study received a 54 percent response rate.The respondents were sorted twice, based on their personal contact and then based on their perceptions. Overall, respondents had about half as much contact with proprietary colleges as they did with traditional colleges in the past year, supporting the first part of Hypothesis 1. However, the largest percentage of respondents had some contact with proprietary colleges, resulting in positive-toneutral perceptions, disproving the first hypothesis overall. Delving further into the issue indicated that the more personal contact a journalist had with proprietary colleges, the more positive his or her perceptions of them were.The second hypothesis was supported however, in that traditional public colleges were contacted as sources for articles more than for-profit colleges by a margin of 77 percent to 23 percent. Non-profit traditional colleges were contacted more by a margin of 49 percent to 23 percent.Further analysis found that the more contact a writer had with a proprietary college, the more positive his or her perception of this sector was and the more coverage for-profit colleges received.Department of Journalism
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Joubert, Leonie. "Turning up the heat : an analysis of the historic, scientific and socio-political complexities influencing climate change reporting in the modern newsroom." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3385.
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Thesis (MPhil (Journalism))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.Global climate change is the result of the natural greenhouse effect being enhanced or augmented by human activities such as industrial burning of fossil fuels and large-scale agricultural practices which have increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The result – the first truly globalised consequence of pollution – is arguably one of the most pressing matters facing the future of the human species. Journalists reporting on the subject have considerable responsibility to unravel the science and present it accurately and responsibly to the public, so that the latter can make informed decisions about individual energy consumption, informed decisions at the voting poll and go further to put the necessary pressure on policy makers. However climate change is without doubt the most complex story environmental and science reporters have ever encountered, not only because it encompasses so many different fields of natural sciences (oceanography, climatology, biological sciences including flora and fauna, hydrology, horticulture etc.), but because it all too often spills over into the political, economic and social arenas. “Climate change is a difficult story to recreate… (it) is one of the most complicated stories of our time. It involves abstract and probabilistic science, labyrinthine laws, grandstanding politicians, speculative economics and the complex interplay of individuals and societies” (Wilson, 2000: 206). Specialist environmental and science news reporters only have three and a half decades of experience and history, since this is one of the more recent journalistic beats to be assigned to modern newsrooms. Such writers face a particularly challenging job of reporting the complex and growing science of global climate change. Furthermore they must do so in an environment where politicians and environmental activists feed journalists sometimes conflicting information, each with its own agenda. Increasing consumer demand for entertainment in place of information may also complicate the telling of these stories, given the financial imperative to sell newspapers. Furthermore, the “global warming story is also affected by a number of journalistic constraints, such as deadlines, space, one-source stories, complexity and reporter education” (Wilson, 2000: 206). The complexities of news values also shape the stories which finally are released to the news consuming public.
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Boyle, Kristoffer D. "When the Publisher is a Politician; A Case Study of the Idaho Falls Post Register's Coverage of the 2002 Idaho Gubernatorial Campaign." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd932.pdf.
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Woods, Joshua. "Imagining terror the people, the press and politics /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Shi, Lan Rui Phyllis. "A critical discourse analysis of news reports on the event of the umbrella revolution in China Daily and South China Morning Post." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953417.
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Franks, J. Elizabeth. "A Descriptive Analysis of Causal Attribution in News Reports of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots in Three National Newspapers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500294/.
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A content analysis was conducted to determine the amount and type of causal explanation included in coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Christian Science Monitor. The data were analyzed to determine whether causal explanations were primarily societal or individual/situational. The primary purpose was to examine whether the press has altered its reporting techniques since the Kerner Commission report criticized the narrow, descriptive-based reporting of the 1960s riots. Study results indicate riot coverage was predominantly descriptive and similar in content to that detailed by the Kerner Commission. The most frequently cited cause was the triggering event, the Rodney King acquittal verdict.
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Nsele, Zandile Victoria. "Ukucwaningwa kwama-atikili esiZulu ngemibiko yezindaba ezibuhlungu ezisemaphephandabeni." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/943.
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Wiktorowska, Aleksandra. "Ryszard Kapuściński: visión integradora de un reportero. Clasificación, construcción y recepción de su obra." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145315.
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La tesis objeto del presente resumen gira en torno, como indica su título, al legado del reportero polaco Ryszard Kapuściński, estudiado desde el punto de vista culturológico. El detallado análisis de su obra desemboca en la inscripción
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Dividido en tres partes (clasificación, construcción y recepción), en el trabajo se abordan, respectivamente, los tres temas foco de atención: la obra, el autor y el lector.
En “Clasificación” se estudian las obras publicadas por el autor. Al analizarlas una por una, se presta atención a cómo están construidas, cuál es su historia, cuáles son sus rasgos característicos, qué recepción tuvieron y qué crítica suscitaron. Partiendo de la perspectiva de la sociología del texto, se analiza qué cambios se produjeron en sus reediciones y por qué.
“Construcción” aborda la cuestión de la construcción creativa. El estudio se centra en la faceta de reportero de Ryszard Kapuściński, para más adelante ahondar en la génesis del reportaje polaco y compararla con su equivalente en la tradición occidental. Se continúa con un repaso de la actividad del Kapuściński autor: desde poesía y periodismo hasta filosofía y antropología pasando por historia e incluso fotografía. Se aborda asimismo su método de trabajo, estudio que lleva a la conclusión de que, más que periodista, es escritor o antropólogo, con lo que se evidencia su faceta de creador. Todo ello lleva a considerarlo el inventor del «reportaje integrador», expresión que se propone para definir su obra.
“Recepción”, como indica su título, está dedicada a la recepción de su obra en los territorios donde adquirió un mayor reconocimiento (teniendo en cuenta: el número de títulos traducidos y publicados, el de premios otorgados, la presencia de críticas de su obra en la prensa nacional, el número de ejemplares impresos vendidos, la participación en acontecimientos culturales –inauguraciones, festivales literarios, talleres, conferencias, etc. –: España, América Latina e Italia. El estudio de la recepción de la obra por parte de lectores y críticos está basado en la documentación existente (dossiers de prensa, artículos, reseñas, críticas, actas de jurados de premios, libros publicados al respecto “et similia”), en la información obtenida de primera mano de expertos capaces de explicar el fenómeno de su popularidad (personas que conocen su obra y/o que tuvieron un trato directo con el autor, sus editores, traductores, profesores de periodismo y colegas periodistas). Finalmente, se examina los rasgos que comparten España, América Latina e Italia para responder a la pregunta de «¿por qué allí y no en otra parte Kapuściński ha cosechado los mayores éxitos?». La clave para ofrecer una argumentación satisfactoria se halla en la teoría postcolonial.
La tesis es un intento de contestar a la pregunta ¿quién es Ryszard Kapuściński? Asimismo, tras analizar su obra, su biografía artística y su recepción, se acuña la definición de un nuevo subgénero para inscribir su obra.
Al tratar y analizar esta, se resaltan las etapas de su vida (con todos los condicionamientos de un polaco nacido en 1932: educación, formación, cultura) y de su trayectoria artística (cómo se fue forjando su escritura, cómo él mismo creció como autor y cómo pasó de ser un periodista, un corresponsal de una agencia de prensa, a convertirse en escritor de libros y traductor de culturas).This dissertation: Ryszard Kapuściński: Integrating View of a Reporter. Classification, Construction and Reception of His Works, examines the complete work of Ryszard Kapuściński, one of the leading figures in Polish reportage, writer of book-length reportage works, one of the most translated polish writer with worldwide recognition. It presents his work from the culturological point of view and through detailed analysis of his work, it proposes to include Kapuściński’s legacy within field of humanities and Cultural Studies. The dissertation is divided into three parts (classification, construction and reception), which addresses, respectively, three different focus of attention, i.e.: the work, the author and the reader. The first part, Classification, discuss 14 titles published by the author, i.e. (in chronological order): The Polish Bush, Black Stars, The Kirghiz Dismounts, If All Africa..., Why Karl von Spreti Died, Christ With a Rifle on His Shoulder, Another Day of Life, The Soccer War, The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat, Shah of Shahs, Imperium, The Shadow of the Sun, Travels with Herodotus and his cycle Lapidarium. By analysing them one by one, we pay attention to how they are constructed, what is the history of every edition, what are particular and common features of every book, how they were received by critics and readers and what critics and opinions they raised. By adopting Sociology of Texts perspective, we reveal some changes, we can observe while comparing different re-editions and we ask why. Second part, Construction, addresses the issue of creative construction and artistic creation. We first focus on Ryszard Kapuściński as a reporter, therefore, on the origins of the Polish reportage and we compare it with Western tradition of reportage. Moreover, we pay attention to Kapuściński’s activity as the author: analyzing his different inspirations, the study shifts from journalism, through history and even photography, to poetry, philosophy and anthropology. We also demonstrate his method of work, which leads us to the conclusion that, rather than a journalist, his method seems more proper of writer and/or anthropologist. Finally, we consider the author the inventor of the "Integrating Reportage," a term we propose to define his work. Third part, Reception is dedicated to the reception of Kapuściński’s works in the territories where he was most popular (taking into account: the number of translated and published titles, awarded prizes, reviews of his work in the national press, the number of printed copies sold, his participation in cultural events, openings, literary festivals, workshops, conferences, etc.), i.e., in Spain, Latin America and Italy. The reception study of his work is based on the existing documentation (such as press dossiers, articles, opinions, reviews, critics, jury final acts from numerous awards, published books etc.), and the information obtained directly from firsthand experts, able to explain the phenomenon of his popularity (people who know his work and/or had direct relationship with the author, such as his editors, translators, journalism professors and fellow journalists). Finally, similarities between his recognition in Spain, Latin America and Italy leads us to ask: "why there and not elsewhere Kapuściński has reched the biggest success?". The key to provide a satisfactory answer seems to derive from Postcolonial Theory. This thesis is an attempt to answer the question: who is Ryszard Kapuściński? Also, after analyzing his work, his artistic biography and its reception, we propose the definition of a new sub genre, which could define his entire work.