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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"American Journalism"”.
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Misguided Benevolence: How ‘moments Of Need’ Came To Motivate American Journalism
… is about the role of nonprofit funding in U.S. journalism, one of the most popular solutions to the tricky reality that many Americans want a model of news that is free of government and commercial control, but seem unwilling to pay for it. From deciding what stories get covered, to where they …
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Covering the World with the International Herald Tribune
… until the 2000s, and a social history of the American journalists who produced it. As a publication that took advantage of telecommunications advances to print remotely beginning in the 1970s, it was a rare print newspaper to achieve international distribution before the internet era. The IHT …
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Labor's New Deal for Journalism---the Newspaper Guild in the 1930s
… clash over the institution of professional journalism. At the heart of that fight was the rise of the American Newspaper Guild and its battle for control over the trusteeship of the freedom of the press. The experience in the news industry in the 1930s displayed the collective shortcomings …
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Reel or Unreal History: Hearst Newsreels and the Production of the News
… examines the production and manipulation of the American newsreel by focusing on William Randolph Hearst’s influential approach to American journalism, his diverse partnerships throughout Hollywood, and his pressure on American politics at the beginning of the twentieth century. By engaging raw …
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Objectivity and Autonomy in the Newsroom: A Field Approach
… as the professional autonomy that is specific to journalism. Journalists understand objectivity as a worldview, value, ideal, and impossibility. A central question that remains is why the term objectivity has become highly devalued in journalistic discourse in the past 30 years, a puzzling …
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The Enduring Mythological Role of the Anonymous Source Deep Throat
… the most famous anonymous newspaper sources in American journalism. He is known for helping Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's impeachment and resignation in 1974. Deep Throat's identity was a source of …
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Public Journalism: A Familiar Practice or New Concept? A Study of John Cowles Sr. and Public Journalism
There are journalists who would liken public journalism to the Phoenix that rose from the ashes of the failure of conventional journalism. Perhaps this observation is melodramatic, but public journalists often claim they have found the solution to save democracy. Yet these same people who claim …
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Hazel Brannon Smith: a portrait of the journalist as a young woman
… The University of Alabama. Here she studied journalism, a first step toward realizing her goal of owning her own newspaper. In order to gain a better understanding of how a very provincial and traditional southern young woman was transformed into a trail-blazing history-maker, her influences …
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Watching the Watchdogs: Defining Journalists in the United States
… and extend the depth of definitions afforded the American print journalist offered in literature that dominates journalism studies. This dissertation utilizes critical textual analysis for a case study of journalists' letters to editors of journalism trade magazines to identify the patterned ways …
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Deciding What's True: Fact-Checking Journalism and the New Ecology of News
… fact-checking in a wider practice of "annotative journalism," with precursors in the muckraking tradition in American news, which has come into flower in an online media environment characterized by promiscuous borrowing and annotation. Participant observation and content analysis are used …
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Satire as Journalism: The Daily Show and American Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
… community and civic participation, and the role journalism plays in establishing, reinforcing or disrupting them, have been part of American life since the early days of the republic. Equally American, and closely connected with them, are the ideas that our public institutions and elected …
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Gender, press and revolution: A textual analysis of three newspapers in Nicaragua's Sandinista period, 1979-1988
This dissertation is a study of the intersection of gender, the press, and revolution. As such it bridges disciplinary boundaries between women's studies and mass communications studies. From a gender perspective, this study focuses on Third World women and on the inherent tensions between …
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Based on True Stories: Representing the Self and the Other in Latin American Documentary Narratives
… doctoral thesis studies the relationship between journalism and literature in contexts in which freedom of speech is at risk. It takes as primary sources a variety of nonfiction, crónicas, literary journalism and testimonial novels published by Latin American authors in Spanish, from the 1950s to …