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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Local News"”.
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Making local news : journalism, culture and place
… in the UK tended to focus on the national news media, particularly that section of the press colloquially known as `Fleet Street'. Yet the impact of these tendencies was also apparently evident among local newspapers, which Tunstall (1996) said had suffered `meltdown'. These titles …
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Using the Local News: Campaigns, Newspapers, and Accountability
The steep decline of local newspapers in recent years represents a major shift in the media environment that may be detrimental to political accountability and knowledge. I argue that despite these seismic changes in the marketplace for news, local newspapers remain critical to American politics. …
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The Effect of Facebook on Parasocial Interaction in Local News
News agencies' ratings often hinge on the relationships their anchors build with viewers. Strong feelings of parasocial interaction, or these on-sided "relationships" audiences feel with on-screen media figures, have been found to be a strong predictor of media use. Local news stations have long …
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Live the Local: Exploring the Relationship between Local News Media and Cities Undergoing Downtown Revitalization
… downtowns to live, work and play? That is where local news coverage can have an impact. The question arises: What can city officials, event organizers, business leaders do to foster a vibrant downtown? News outlets (e.g., television, print, digital) and their corresponding social media platforms, …
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Are People Reading Local News? A Content Analysis of Popular News Stories on Nine Newspaper Websites
<p>The news industry has come under tremendous pressure in the last decade. None more so than the newspaper industry, which has seen all aspects of its operation: readership, revenue, staff, distribution and reputation decline dramatically. This study uses content analysis to examine the reading …
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Making Local News: An organisational ethnography investigating news values within Local Digital Television Programme Services (L-DTPS)
… have traceable consequences on the ways in which news is selected and constructed, supporting the critical political economy perspective. Using a comparative ethnographic approach including interviews and observation of professional practice in three local television newsrooms, studios and other …
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Get Lit: An analysis of the framing of party schools in the U.S.
… potentially impact the institution, as well as local news coverage regarding the institution's ranking and the drinking and partying habits of its student body. This study explores media coverage of party schools through a lens of framing and relationship management theories. Through a …
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A downward spiral: Young people, the media, and political disengagement
… politics and politicians. Frequent viewers of local news feel less trusting toward the government in Washington, whereas frequent viewers of late-night talk shows feel greater trust toward politics and politicians. Further, there is a relationship between the types of programs which students …
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A Model of Excellence for Weekly Newspapers in Iowa
Weekly newspapers are what people read to find out their local news. While The Des Moines Register and the like cover the "big" news of the day - Haiti, Somalia, health care -it is the weekly newspapers that bring people the most local news - city council reports, the features on local heroes and …
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The print that binds : local journalism, civic life and the public sphere
… analysis is focused on national politics and news outlets, the role of local media and the crucial role it plays in civic life has been often neglected in the wider debate. In this thesis, I argue that local journalism is critical as a tool for informing citizens so they can be civically …
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Effects of ownership and circulation on editorial presentation in West Virginia newspapers
… done on the influence of chain ownership in newspapers.;Historically, strong political biases in news coverage were found in the yellow journalism, early 20th century period. And this study finds a conservative bias on the opinion-editorial pages in a traditionally Democratic state with few …
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The future of local television news: Is there a possible strategic planning approach?
… planning process used in a sample of television news departments. The purpose was to determine if commonalities exist; in what circumstances, and whether techniques and approaches used for many years by businesses could advance the process of planning in the fast-paced environment of local …
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Perceptions of quality: The Gap model meets gatekeeping
… gaps exist between consumer perceptions of news quality and news directors' perceptions of news quality. Interviews were conducted with Las Vegas local television news directors. In addition, surveys were distributed to local news consumers. A case study approach of local Las Vegas Valley …
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The way to diversity under party control : two Chinese newspapers in 1975 and in 1996.
This thesis studied changes in two Chinese newspapers before and after the launch of the Deng Xiaoping-led economic reform, by content analyzing one week's new coverage in 1975 and in 1996. The national daily, People's Daily and the local daily carried a greater number of news items in 1996, …
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Media Coverage and the Ferguson Unrest
… were used at a much higher rate in national news outlets as opposed to a local news out-let from Missouri. These results are specifically discussed as well as limitations and ideas for further research on the data that was collected and use.
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The City Is a Morgue
… sister. He finds some unlikely assistance from a local news reporter and a man with an uncanny ability for discovering dead bodies. The four stories are meant to give an impression of helplessness. Each protagonist is in search of the power needed for self-determination.
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Three studies on managers' disclosure decisions
… reaching crisis levels. I examine the effect of local opioid abuse, proxied by the opioid prescription rate in the county in which a firm's headquarters is located, on the quality of management earnings forecasts. I find that firms headquartered in counties of high opioid abuse produce …
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Three studies on managers' disclosure decisions
… reaching crisis levels. I examine the effect of local opioid abuse, proxied by the opioid prescription rate in the county in which a firm's headquarters is located, on the quality of management earnings forecasts. I find that firms headquartered in counties of high opioid abuse produce …
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Framing the mass shooter James Eagan Holmes: serious mental illness and gun violence
… question guiding the study asked how online news stories about the Aurora Theater Shooting frame serious mental illness and mass shootings. A content analysis was conducted on four news websites, two local publications and two national publications. This was designed to detect geographical …
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