Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Newsworthiness"”.
-
Readers’ Perceptions of Newsworthiness and Bias as Factors in Participation with Digital News Content
… effects and commenting. This study adds newsworthiness to the structural equation, hypothesizing that newsworthiness increases readers’ perceptions that an article will influence other readers. These relationships should increase hostile-media effects, and, therefore, a reader’s …
-
"We just write what we think is newsy": an analysis on newsworthiness constructions in Malaysian newspapers
Studies on newsworthiness have developed mainly into two ways of explaining how events become news. These approaches, which have been called object-driven and subject-driven news values, have contributed a lot in the quest for understanding news. Previous empirical studies on news have demonstrated …
-
Impact of web metrics on news decisions
… content and in the nature of determinations of newsworthiness. A greater emphasis on metrics led one organization toward a lower percentage of civic issue stories, less story depth, a better understanding of online traffic creation, greater use of text and ideas from public relations …
-
Examining the Demographic and Situational Characteristics that Predict News-Media Coverage of Bias Homicides:
… and the events themselves. Findings speak to the newsworthiness of certain types of lethal bias crime events versus others, which have important implications for public and political discourse regarding bias crime policy. </p>
-
The Pandemic of Being a Woman: A Qualitative Analysis of the South African Media on GBV at the Time of COVID-19
… that the media maintained the relevance and newsworthiness of GBV throughout the COVID 19 pandemic by borrowing legitimacy from COVID 19 in various ways. While this, along with the presence of more contextualized understandings of GBV, is a success, this paper argues that there is still work …
-
Strainer: State Transcript Rating for Informed News Entity Retrieval
… and Logistic Regression models to predict the newsworthiness of bill discussions that took place in the California State Legislature during the 2017-2018 session year. We found that our models were able to correctly retrieve more than 80\% of newsworthy discussions.</p>
-
Necessary illusions?: representations of Darfur
… what actors - were involved in determining the newsworthiness of Darfur? This first key question concerns the graph of media coverage of Darfur, through an escalation phase, an abundant phase, and finally a gradually diminishing phase. Ideally, the diminishing phase of media coverage should …
-
News Or Speculation? A Comparative Content Analysis Of Headlines And The Prevalence Of Speculative Language In Corporate And Independently Owned Newspapers
… chose to study headlines because they convey the newsworthiness of the story and former research confirms that reader perceptions of a news account can depend on the headline (Pfau, 1995; Tannenbaum, 1953). The aim was to comparatively study the news headlines through quantitative content analysis …
-
A Content Analysis Of 2004 Presidential Election Headlines Of The Los Angeles Times And The Washington Times
… chose to study headlines because they convey the newsworthiness of the story and former research confirms that reader perceptions of a news account can depend on the headline (Pfau, 1995; Tannenbaum, 1953). This study utilized content analysis to assess the word choices and biases of the headlines …
-
Picturing the World's news: news photography, culturalproduction, Thomson Reuters and the international processof news making
… production illustrates the overall production of newsworthiness.
-
An assessment of the state of science journalism in Namibia : A case study of the Namibian, Namibian sun, and New Era newspapers
… by the Namibian print media to determine the newsworthiness of science news, and to determine the challenges and opportunities for the media in the science journalism field. Furthermore, the study sought to examine the perceptions that scientists have of the media. The study aimed to …
-
The gendering of sports news: An investigation into the production, content and reception of sports photographs of athletes in New Zealand newspapers.
… a decisive role in constructing perceptions of newsworthiness that privilege a few professional men’s sports whilst marginalizing women’s sports and sportswomen, who are frequently stereotyped in representations where physical appearance and aesthetic beauty are emphasized rather than …
-
The Muslim News: Playing Muslims in the Media Pitch, Penalties and Sport Champions
… discourses on Muslims. Sports stories maintain newsworthiness while enabling the MN to diverge from the negative coverage of Muslims in mainstream press and celebrate Muslim champions. Comparing such representations in a newspaper by and for Muslims to those produced by mainstream press further …
-
Framing youth suicide in a multi-mediated world: the construction of the Bridgend problem in the British national press
… over time. The elements that added to the newsworthiness of the story and resulted in its transition from the local to the national press are identified and closely examined. The analysis of the national news coverage reveals the central role of ‘causality’ and ‘morality’ in the Bridgend …
-
Twelve Days of Hell: A Study of Violence, Historical Memory, and Media Coverage of the York, Pennsylvania Race Riots, 1968-2003
… in 2001 for the murder of Allen, bringing the newsworthiness of this story to another level. Mayor Robertson’s involvement in the story suppressed the larger social issues that led to the riots and, instead, over-simplified the story as one, racist villain who instigated the violence. By …
-
Sustaining independent filmmaking in the age of the internet : the case of audience building
… newsvalue to persuade opinion leaders of the newsworthiness of a film to their audiences.Filmmakers must offer ways for audiences to follow them directly. This also includesan ongoing personal and transparent communication as well as interaction with interestedaudience members. Eliminating …
-
Fatal and Non-Fatal Police Shootings in the United States, 2015: An Examination of Open-Source Data
… universe of police shootings nationwide. But the newsworthiness-driven media coverage restricts the content and amount of information that can be used for theory testing. The results, based on the data complied, support the notion that police shooting does not always kill, and add evidence to the …