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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Associated Press"”.
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The shadow wars: An analysis of Associated Press coverage of drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen
1 PDF file (vii, 71 pages)
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The world-wide news agencies: development organization, competition, markets and product. A study of Agence France Presse, Associated Press, Reuters and United Press, to 1975
The thesis argues that in their development, organization and news services, the major western-based global news agencies have responded and continue to respond primarily to the requirements of western markets. In particular, their domestic markets are shown to be especially important to them, and …
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“we Send Our News By Lightning . . .”: The Information Explosion Of The Nineteenth Century And Adaptation In The Press, 1840-1892
… or commercial information. In postwar years the press moved toward an increasingly fact-based and professionalized form of reporting that supplanted the earlier Party Press and Penny Press. Newspapers democratized the expensive new communication technology of the Morse telegraph, making its …
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Framing practices of wire services in modern wartime : international frames during the final six months of the Battle of Aleppo
… articles published by three major wire services-Associated Press, Reuters, and TASS -- during the final six months of the Battle of Aleppo, a major offensive that essentially tilted the tide of the Syrian Civil War to the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The goal of this work is to discern the types of …
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"Women of Vision" : how females lead photojournalism departments in a male-dominated field
… Tribune, National Geographic magazine and the Associated Press. On a theoretical level, this study helps to illustrate why considering gender is still relevant in contemporary journalism studies based on the past and present experiences of the women in both the task of photo editing and the way …
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A Tale of Two Turnouts in 2004: Effects of News Frame Valence and Substance on College Students' Levels of Trust, Cynicism, and Political Information Efficacy
… U.S. presidential election, articles from the Associated Press and major news organizations came to very different conclusions regarding the impact of young voters on the election outcome. While some media outlets framed the youth turnout as a success, others framed it as a failure. This …
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Framing the 2024 Quota Reform Movement in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of Media Narratives in Bangladesh and the United States
… news platforms: <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Associated Press</em>, <em>New Nation</em>, and <em>Financial Express</em>. A structured content analysis of 400 articles was conducted using a multi-dimensional coding instrument. Findings indicate that U.S. outlets emphasized themes of human …
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Media Insensitivity To People Of Color: A Comparison And Contrast Of How African Americans Are Portrayed In Mainstream Media To White Americans
… 2012 movie theater shooting was portrayed by the Associated Press as a “Brilliant” science student. The narrative seems to soften when White Americans commit and I want to show people that mainstream media either intentionally or unconsciously vilifies African American victims while not holding …
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Instrument Timbres and Pitch Estimation in Polyphonic Music
… mainly by the release of the now famous MP3 compression format (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, 1994). Online sales of music in the US doubled in 2005, according to a recent news article (*), while the number of files exchanged on P2P platforms is much higher, but hard to estimate. The existing and …
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The Road to Rio: Infrastructure, Image, and New Media
… the New York Times, BBC, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Midia NINJA, and several other media organizations. These journalists were questioned about the dominant media narratives, as well as the role of new media, not only in reporting news on the ground in Rio de Janeiro, but also in …
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Good press, bad press: A 25-year comparison of arguments and trends in American news coverage of climate change and the ozone hole
… of more than 1,000 news articles written by The Associated Press, United Press International and The New York Times are combined with interviews with members of key stakeholder groups in both cases including scientists, politicians, industry officials, environmentalists and news reporters. The …
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The Cluster Hypothesis: A Visual/Statistical Analysis
… in which descriptive titles are extracted from Associated Press news stories drawn from the TREC information retrieval test collection. The clustering behavior of these titles is compared to the behavior of the corresponding full text via statistical analysis of the visual characteristics of a …
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Social Media @ Global News Agencies: News(s) Technology in a Professional Culture of Practice
… practices at the ‘Big Three’ GNAs, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press and Reuters, which have become a crucial site for research of the impact of widespread and growing use of social media. The research creates and uses the theoretical framework of cultures of practice to analyse how GNAs are …
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Public understanding of chemistry research in print news
… a single chemistry research article, along with associated press releases and research articles, were analyzed using move analysis to determine the structure of each type of text. It was found that the overall structure of each text genre was similar, with the main difference being that research …
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Dimension reduction and efficient recommender system for large-scale complex data
… data with refreshment samples from the 2007-2008 Associated Press–Yahoo! News. In the third part of this thesis, we develop a novel recommender system which track users' preferences and recommend items of interest effectively. In this thesis, we propose a group-specific method to utilize …
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Dictators and democracy: reflective journalistic practice in covering post-Soviet Russia
… analysis delves into several key issues: the suppression of free journalism in Russia; the mechanisms of censorship and self-censorship (including topics now off-limits to journalists) the extent of access granted to foreign reporters, and the creative strategies that news organisations employ to …
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Can we forecast conflict? A framework for forecasting global human societal behavior using latent narrative indicators
… international news coverage from Agence France Presse, the Associated Press, and Xinhua over the last 30 years, is used to construct a database of more than 29 million global events in over 300 categories using the TABARI coding system and CAMEO event taxonomy, resulting the largest event …