Philip Merrill College of Journalism: Recent submissions
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The Washington, D.C. 1991 Riots in Mount Pleasant: An Analysis of Local Press Coverage
(1993)Studies in the field of communication have found that the U.S.A. mainstream (English-language) news media coverage of minorities is characterized primarily by the portrayal of minorities only in the context of the ... -
DESCRIBING THE POOR: AN EXAMINATION OF NEWS MEDIA LANGUAGE ABOUT WELFARE REFORM AND RECIPIENTS FROM 1996 TO 2016
(2020)This study examined the language used by four mainstream newspapers to represent welfare recipients between 1996 and 2016. Using a mixed-method analysis developed on qualitative and quantitative analysis and guided by ... -
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT ON THE PRODUCTION AND QUALITY OF LOCAL TELEVISION NEWS
(2019)Technology is an integral part of journalism. Journalists use computers, IP-based servers, and digital gear as instruments to gather, process, and distribute news regarding events that impact our lives. Beyond the basic ... -
Trends and Strategies of News on Social Media in the U.S.: A Multimethod Analysis
(2019)There is growing interest in how social media and news interact, but much of that information is not widely available because news organizations pay third party analytics services for proprietary data. This study, however, ... -
The Kent County News: A History and an Era, 1950-1980
(1981)This thesis focuses first on the history of the Kent County News, and second on how the paper covered the problems and pressures that an urbanized twentieth century brought to a rural Eastern Shore Maryland county ...