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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"News reporting"”.
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An Alternative Press? New Forms of News Reporting in Brazil
… examines the emergence of alternative forms of news production in Brazil within the context of an increasingly unstable democracy. It focuses on different genres of not-for-profit journalism to understand the roles of alternative news producers, their relationships with traditional journalistic …
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News as a commodity vs. news as a public good : adaptation strategies of South African Newspapers in the Digital Era
… theory, this study explores the challenges that newspapers face in maintaining their relevance to readers in an age where news has been de-commoditised and made readily available on the web. Empirically the study is based on four case studies of incidents where different newspapers were reported …
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Autobiographical Writing in Adolescents: An Exploratory Study
… or small groups. The control group completed a news reporting unit and several short writing assignments.
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The roll of accounting in debt contract renegotiations : evidence from positive shocks
… to their credit quality, firms with more timely reporting of good news are more likely to renegotiate their loan contracts and they do so sooner than firms with less timely good news reporting. Further, these effects are more pronounced for firms whose positive shocks can be more credibly …
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The Dynamics of Chinese Media Practices and Regulation: Explanations and Interpretations
… By tracing the dynamics of television news reporting practices and government regulation of the news media, this analysis will map out the evolving roles of television in today's China to use them as subtle indications of how Chinese politics are evolving in the reform era. Chinese …
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An Evaluation of the Impact of the Digital Platform on Hard News Storytelling at the BBC and SABC Online News Sites
Digital technologies are impacting news cultures across the globe in various ways. In this thesis, I explore specifically how the digital platform is influencing hard news reporting practices at the online news websites of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the South African …
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Narrative battle: A critical discourse analysis of China and the US's news coverage on COVID-19 origin-tracing
… with mainstream media outlets such as newspapers taking sides. This qualitative research employs a critical discourse approach, using Van Dijk's ideological square, to compare newspaper discourses on Covid-19 origin in China (Global Times) and the US (The Wall Street Journal) and …
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A critical discourse analysis of news reports on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in selected Arab and western newspapers
… is almost a constant item in the coverage of news outlets, especially since the outbreak of the spiraling violence that marked the end of the peace process and the beginning of the second Palestinian uprising in the fall of 2000. The discourse of the conflict is as ideological and …
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THE MEDIA IS A FUNHOUSE MIRROR: COMPARING ECONOMIC INTERACTION ISSUES IN THE U.S. AND CHINESE MEDIA
… studied the differences between mainstream news reporting in the U.S. and China. I employed content analysis to analyze the major features of 427 news reports about the economic interaction between the two countries. The research focused on the key media frames in the two sets of news media, …
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Ethical principles for a sensitive society
… today's society. The author found that lower news reporting standards such as fabrication of information and sources, using false documents and failure to check facts caused members of society to become sensitive and question the integrity of news stations and reporters as well as the validity …
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Context Aware Textual Entailment
In conversations, stories, news reporting, and other forms of natural language, understanding requires participants to make assumptions (hypothesis) based on background knowledge, a process called entailment. These assumptions may then be supported, contradicted, or refined as a conversation or …
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The Dynamics of Democracy: Politicians, People, and the Press
… of the media on politics through the lens of news reporting, there has been far less attention invested in whether editorials matter for policy outcomes. Editorials offer publishers and editors an opportunity to express openly their views on the issues of their choice; the extent to which …
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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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The application of Facebook to crisis communication management : a case study of Malaysia airlines
Our world is being jolted more increasingly by news of crisis and chaos happening globally; from natural disasters to man-made catastrophes, political revolutions and terrorism to economic woes and corporate crisis all making the headlines. Technological innovations like the social media plays a …
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The impact of Saudi systemic factors on investigative journalism
… is considered one of the most important types of news reporting although importantly it differs according to the media environment in which it is practised. This study addresses gaps in the literature by exploring the practice and status of investigative journalism in Saudi Arabia. This research …
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A reportagem nas rádios comerciais de Natal-RN
… thesis aims to investigate the space of radio reporting and production conditions in radio newscasts in commercial stations operating in modulated frequency (FM) in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. Through preliminary empirical observation, it was observed that this journalistic style …
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News about nanotechnology: a longitudinal framing analysis of newspaper reporting on nanotechnology.
… and society, making it a recurring subject of news reporting worldwide. Scholars say mainstream news media are the primary places in which citizens learn about science and technology, therefore creating opportunities for democratic debate about these topics. This thesis explores the ways in …
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The media dependence model: an analysis of the performance and structure of U.S. and global news
… make sense out of the many questions surrounding news media performance and its inadequacies. It does this by first synthesizing two critical models of news analysis and applying their respective strengths toward the other’s weaknesses. The synthesis is based on the propaganda (Herman & Chomsky, …
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Social Change in the Media: Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans and Queer (GLBTQ) Representation and Visibility in The New York Times: A Critical, Qualitative Social-Historical Content Analysis of The New York Times
… methodology to analyze social change in business news articles of The New York Times. A random sample of 127 articles published between 1970 and 2000, discussing advertising news and containing one or more of the terms "Gay", "Lesbian", " Bisexual", "Transexual", "Transgendered" and "Queer" …
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