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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"newspaper coverage"”.
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2014 Ebola newspaper coverage : through the lens of Orientalism
… discourse analysis of United States (U.S.) newspaper coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and its representation of West Africa in relation to the West. The study sought to determine whether the coverage reflected the theory of Orientalism, as defined by Palestinian-American philosopher …
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Newspaper coverage of cavalry raiders during the American Civil War
… narrative, but also fairly closely examine how newspapers of the time wrote about their campaigns, including the many different sets of facts received, unconfirmed rumors and discrepancies being widely reported, and the inability, many times, to see these raids in the larger picture of the war.
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Perceptions versus reality? Newspaper coverage on the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
… Anglo-Zulu War through three famous and popular newspapers- The London Times, the Irish Times and the Illustrated London News. This is a topic that needs research, and the purpose of the thesis is to help add to the abundant literature covering other features of the war. To study the whole war in …
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An analysis of Western newspaper coverage of the Libyan-American conflict of 1986.
… a content analysis of a sample of Western press coverage of the Libyan-American conflict of 1986. Three elite Western newspapers, The New York Times (United States), The Globe and Mail (Canada), and The Times (Great Britain) were selected for this study. 1,045 news stories were analyzed, …
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Purveying affect: Canadian newspaper coverage of the Diana Spencer and Karla Homolka chronologies
… examines two major news chronologies in Canadian newspapers to see if through selective emphasis and language use they have been constructed to prompt affective response in readers. Key categories of longstanding press mechanisms to purvey affect are scrutinized within the material: creating a …
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Pro-government and Pro-opposition Newspaper Coverage of the Zhanaozen Conflict in Kazakhstan
This study examines the coverage of a conflict on December 16, 2011, between protesters and government security services in the oil town of Zhanaozen in western Kazakhstan during the celebrations of the 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the country’s independence. The study looks into the coverage of …
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Framing public health disaster : Chinese newspaper coverage of the contaminated milk powder affair
… health disasters. Specifically, it examines the coverage of the 2008 Chinese milk disaster in four different types of Chinese newspapers. The four newspapers are selected according to their different news environment, which is measured by the level of government control over them. The study finds …
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The Shrinking Trial: Contrasting Newspaper Coverage of Trials Today Against Thirty-Four years Ago
… 562 news items culled from a Midwest metro daily newspaper and a Midwest local daily newspaper in the early months of 1980 and 2014. It examined newspaper coverage relating to trials, both civil and criminal, jury and bench, state and federal. Overall, there is less coverage in 2014 than there was …
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Framing the 2012 Olympics: A Content Analysis of International Newspaper Coverage of Female Athletes
… order to determine the quantity and quality of coverage during the 2012 Olympics. The research mostly supported previous literature concerning the depiction of female athletes in the media, as the study revealed an imbalance in the quantity and quality of coverage of male and female athletes in …
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Framing Flint : comparing mainstream and black newspaper coverage in the wake of environmental racism.
… theories, this study considers how local black newspapers, the Chicago Defender and the Michigan Chronicle, have framed the Flint water crisis in comparison to mainstream newspapers, the Chicago Tribune, and the Detroit Free Press. The analysis found key differences in the way that the …
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Comparing Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change During Election Campaigns in the United States, Canada and Australia
<p>This study compares newspaper coverage of climate change and global warming during the national elections in Australia, Canada and the U.S. during 2007 and 2008. Using a census of newspaper coverage and in-depth interviews with reporters, editors and columnists in the three countries, the study …
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An analysis of the correlation among fashion newspaper coverage and public relations in the United Kingdom
… the relationship between fashion PR and fashion coverage in UK newspapers and suggests that such coverage is overwhelmingly generated by PR, to the extent that little if any independent fashion journalism actually exists. Despite the fact that existing research on news sources has pointed to the …
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Aruba and Natalee Holloway: A Content Analysis of Four Years of Newspaper Coverage Surrounding the Incident.
<p>Negative media coverage can have a significant impact on the image of a country and can be detrimental to tourism-dependent areas. This study examined the newspaper coverage of Aruba 2 years before and after American tourist Natalee Holloway disappeared while vacationing with fellow classmates …
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Framing Death: The Use of Frames in Newspaper Coverage of and Press Releases about Death with Dignity
… DDNC in its press releases and frames used in newspaper coverage of death with dignity across the same period of time. It was found that press releases about and newspaper coverage of the death with dignity social movement shared significant correlations in terms of the frames each used, as …
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East is East and West is West: Philadelphia Newspaper Coverage of the East-West Divide in Early America
… the lens of eighteenth-century Philadelphia newspapers, which themselves employed an East-West paradigm to interpret four events: the Paxton Boys Incident, Regulator Rebellion, Shays's Rebellion, and Constitutional Convention. Through the choices of what words to use to describe these …
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The influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria (2010-2012)
… project surveyed the Influence of ethnicity in newspaper coverage of the Plateau State conflict in North-Central Nigeria. It analyses how conflict journalists reported this violent episode that has spanned nearly twenty years and the significance of this coverage. The conflict has been between …
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Framing a Kidnapping: Frame Convergence between Online Newspaper Coverage and Reader Discussion Posts of Three Kidnapped Romanian Journalists
In late March 2005, three Romanian journalists were kidnapped by an obscure group of Iraqi militants near Baghdad. Several unusual details about the circumstances of the kidnapping prompted the Romanian media to investigate the speculation regarding the authenticity and motives of this high profile …
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Narrating Jackson State: An Examination Of Power Relations And Mississippi Newspaper Coverage Of The 1970 Shootings At Jackson State College
The following thesis examines media coverage of a 1970 campus shooting at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, during which two black students were killed and several others were injured. Over forty years after the shootings, the incident remains largely absent from the dominant …
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