• The Kent County News: A History and an Era, 1950-1980 

  Gruenburg, Drew Nathan (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 ...

• LEARNING TO LOVE THE AUDIENCE: How Journalists and Newsrooms Adjust to Audience Inclusion and Engagement 

  Assmann, Karin (2019)

  This study examines how institutional change in the news industry, in particular empowerment and inclusion of the audience, affects journalists. How does minding the audience, interacting with readers or viewers and engaging ...

• THE ROLE OF ACCOUNT FEATURES AND SOCIAL NETWORKS ON PERCEIVED QUALITY OF INFORMATION SHARERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA 

  Auxier, Brooke Elizabeth (2019)

  In today’s complex social media environments, users are inundated with news and information. Due to the affordances of the internet, not all content is created equal and much of what exists online is less-than-quality. ...

• The American Press and the Sinking of the Lusitania 

  McDonough, Joseph (1986)

  Purpose of Study: The purpose of the study was to analyze to what degree the sinking of the R.M.S. Lusitania swayed editorial opinion against Germany in seven representative United States newspapers. Procedures: Seven ...

• No Place for a Girl? Women as Sports Reporters from the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties 

  Siqueira Paranhos Velloso, Carolina (2019)

  This thesis examines some of the first women to write about sports for print media from 1870 to 1920. It also explains the social, economic and cultural circumstances from which early women sports journalists emerged. The ...

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