Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Fall 1992 written by Lisa Kremer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working at U.S. News & World Report, doing computer-assisted reporting. Includes examples of work. In the research component entitled, "Money is knowledge at the National Technical Information Service," the author discusses the loophole in the Freedom of Information Act that allows the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) to charge huge rates for its information. The author concludes that "while the NTIS was established to archive and disseminate information to scientists and engineers, its duties have expanded as technology progressed. Journalists' facility with computers has proceeded just a step behind NTIS' growing collection of government information stored on magnetic tapes and diskettes. In addition, other agencies have begun ... selling information by brokering files through the Service. Together, these factors mean NTIS' ... audience is broadening. ... As more people from non-profit scientific and educational institutions and members of the media join the NTIS' audience, NTIS' rate structure strays further from the ideal delineated by the Freedom of Information Act. The result is that a service designed to make information available to more people has changed into one that makes information more expensive, and thus, for some, more difficult to obtain." (p. 24).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Fall 1992 written by Brian Blom and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working for News Channel 8, a 24-hour news cable channel providing local news coverage of suburban Maryland, northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. The author started working for the sports department, but duties eventually included the news side. Includes field notes. The research component "will discuss News Channel 8 (ALLNEWSCO) and how it operates in the Washington metropolitan area. ... ALLNEWSCO ... was launched on October 7th, 1991, and celebrated its one-year anniversary during research for this paper. Because the concept of local news on cable is still relatively new, this paper will seek to explain the unique aspects of such a station. Specifically, it will highlight the differences between News Channel 8's news coverage and that of regular over-the-air broadcasters in the D.C. area. The paper will describe the planning of the owner, Joe Allbritton, who made the station a reality; trace the history of progress from research and development, through start-up; and conclude with a discussion of the station's present day operations." (p. 1).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1992 written by Vanessa Lu and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working as a reporter in Washington, D.C., with the majority of her stories for The Spokane Spokesman-Review and The Vancouver Sun. Includes examples of work. In the research component entitled, "Japan-bashing: is the press making it worse?" the author examines "the print media's coverage of the U.S.-Japan trade battles of early 1992 and its subsequent effects on race relations in this country. This research paper looks closely at the criticisms offered by politicians in both countries and how they were reported. ... This research paper also examines the shortcomings in the reporting of the anti-America and anti-Japan statements, and the public reaction to name-calling and bashing." (p. 1-2).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1992 written by Clare Nolan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working as an assistant producer at Global View Productions in Washington, D.C. The author's main responsibility was in the pre-production and content development of EcoKids, a series for children on the environment. In the research component the author "provide[s] an overview of the business of independent production in Washington as revealed by interviews with producers and descriptions of independent production companies based in Washington ..." (p. 2).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1992 written by Rebecca Tauber and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences writing for the Biddford-Saco Journal Tribune (Maine) and the Topeka Capital-Journal (Kansas) while based in Washington, D.C. ... Includes examples of work. In the research component entitled "Center for Science in the Public Interest: anatomy of a friend of the Press," the author's paper gives "a brief glance at the movement that gave birth to organizations like the Center for Science in the Public Interest and a somewhat longer look at [the] center itself. The remainder of the paper is devoted [to] an exploration of five themes culled from interviews with center staff regarding the media. The final section blends the answers to two questions: What are the significant elements of CSPI's philosophy toward the media? How do these compare with some of the philosophies and ideals pursued by members of the media?" (p. 1).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1992 written by Gabriela Mar Reese and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working as a reporter in Washington, D.C. for the Anderson Independent-Mail out of South Carolina and the Anniston Star out of Alabama. Includes field notes and examples of work. In the research component entitled, "The Washington bureau: the decline of a reporting empire?" the author states: "The recession, an anti-Washington sentiment and industry-wide newspaper trends are forcing changes in, and in some cases closing, Washington bureaus. Interviews with bureau chiefs and correspondents representing small, medium and large news organizations provide the fodder for evaluating the current status of their bureaus, what changes their bureaus have undergone and a glimpse of their future." (p. [1]) Includes a literature review.

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1993 written by Joy E. Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working as an intern/assistant with ABC's PrimeTime Live in Washington, and as an assistant to Sam Donaldson. Includes field notes and examples of work. The research component entitled "Television newsmagazines: changing the face of prime-time television", "outlines five current television newsmagazines [CBS's 60 Minutes and 48 Hours, ABC's 20/20 and PrimeTime Live and NBC's Dateline], explores their histories and the methods that have given them their staying power. It includes views from individuals both inside and outside the television industry, and discussess [sic] the fact that newsmagazines walk a fine line between news and entertainment; It explores the reasons for adding news to television's prime-time lineup, and looks at how these newsmagazines ranked in the 1992-93 season." (pt. II, abstract).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Autumn 1993 written by Shu-Ching Jean Chen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working as a reporter for the Washington Times. Includes field notes and examples of work. The research component entitled, "The coverage of the U.S peacekeeping mission in Somali: a content analysis of sources in October 1993 by the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the New York Times," the author examines "the close relationship between reporters and official sources ... in Washington, D.C. where the nation's major political resources are generated." (project proposal, [p. 3]).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Fall 1993 written by Janet L. Lee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working as an editorial assistant for Business Week at their Washington Bureau. Includes field notes and examples of work. The author assisted other reporters with their stories and contributed her own stories. In the research component entitled, "'It's not a mistake--it's design': barriers and bridges to improving relationships among magazine editorial, art and photography departments," the author examines "how magazine editorial, design and photography departments work together" (p. 3), and through interview[s] with department heads of various magazines, gets "an idea of the cooperation or animosity between these areas and how they resolve differences." (p. 3).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1994 written by Martha M. Everett and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working at USA Weekend; however, after a month that assignment did not work out, and the author reported out of Washington, D.C. for the Topeka Capital-Journal, the Spokesman-Review, and the Columbia Missourian. Includes field notes and examples of work. In the research component, entitled, Cyberspace or bust: electronic publishing and its effects on print journalism, journalists and the news, the author examines "how the technology explosion will effect print journalism, journalists and their audience." (p. 1.3).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1993 written by Andrea R. Wright and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working at Maturity News Service in Washington, D.C. as a health reporter, but also doing stories on senior issues. Includes correspondence and examples of work. In the research component entitled "An analysis of what the media are doing to meet the growing needs of the aging American population", the author examines how the media are dealing with the trend of people living longer and concludes that "the media--newspapers, magazines, television, and radio--definitely are aware of the growth of the older population; with this knowledge comes an awareness that in order to keep afloat, they have to change with the times." (p. 22).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1991 written by Rachel Whitcomb Keen and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working at Washingtonian magazine. The author's main task was working on a survey conducted by the magazine "to find out what the people who help make the news--the leaders in town--think about those who gather it and present it." (research paper, p. 29) This was done by sending out a questionnaire about the media to members of several elite professional groups in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Includes examples of work. In the research component the author examines city magazines. With the slump in the magazine publishing industry, "now more than ever, it is essential to produce an excellent magazine filled with exciting copy, graphics and photographs and to deliver this book to the right readers. City magazines strive to fulfill these two goals with every issue, and conducting research is one way to approach the problem. By 'research' I [the author] mean two things. Do city magazines: conduct research about their readers? Survey the general public about various topics and use the results to enhance their editorial? In addition to providing a brief history of city magazines and detailing how they are faring in today's economy, this paper will present and examine the role research plays in achieving the two, above-mentioned goals. Also, in the second section, Washingtonian will be analyzed as an example of how one highly successful city book uses research in providing its readers with stellar issues month after month. Finally, in the third section, a description of how one survey [see above] was conducted at Washingtonian will be provided." (research paper, p. 3).

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1991 written by Jung-Nung Chang and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working as a reporter in Washington, D.C. mostly for St. Louis Suburban Journals and Anderson Independent-Mail (S.C.). Includes examples of work. The research component, entitled "A comparison of how correspondents from the Asian Little Four Dragons cover economic news in Washington," "compares how correspondents from South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan cover economic news in Washington during the past tricky and troubled years. It looks at difficulties and problems that confront the correspondents; what strategies they use to handle them; their relationship with sources; and the relationship among themselves. Direct interviews with the Asian correspondents on the economic beat through a designed questionnaire along with a second literature review are used as the methodology." (abstract) Includes literature reviews.

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1993 written by Susan Young and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working as an intern at Reuters, an international news agency in Washington, D.C. Includes field notes and examples of work. In the research component entitled, "The 'coups and earthquakes' mentality: reporting the United States to the world," the author examines five foreign newspapers to study the issue of news values. The author found five basic story criteria, including economics, diplomacy, conflict or crises, oddity and prominence. Among them, stories about economics were the most common. The author concludes that "the 'coups and earthquakes' mentality is not an American phenomenon. It pervades the editing process around the world. Editors, sitting in newsrooms from Europe to Asia rely on a similar set of news values. These values mean editors eschew certain stories in favor of others." (p. 26) The author also finds that "stories about foreign countries must meet criteria similar to those for domestic news to gain a bit of the scarce newshole. Stories about economic and political developments are the most frequent from the United States to make it into foreign newspaper. And, despite all the criticism of the Western media for focusing on conflict rather then development, foreign newspapers are predisposed to follow events with an element of conflict in their coverage of the United States. Most astonishingly, the Third World, in covering itself, focuses on conflict-laden events at the expense of stories about development." (p. 27) Includes a literature review.

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1994 written by David Urbinato and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., assisting the speech writer for agency administrator in various ways and writing and editing for the EPA Journal. Includes field notes and examples of work. The research component "center[s] on an analysis of the way speeches have been used in Bush's and, mainly, Clinton's presidencies to sell federal governmental policy to the public at large." (pt. 1, p. 4) More specifically, the author examines the media coverage of William Reilly, the EPA's administrator during the Bush administration and Carol Browner, the administrator, at the time, during the Clinton administration in order to answer some questions: "What affects coverage of federal agency leaders? How much did these differences in operating environments affect the coverage? Was the coverage shaped more by contextual and environmental factors or the administrator's oratory and public posture?" (pt. 5, p. 1) Some answers were provided by the study of public proclamations of government officials. Includes a literature review.

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program David Kaplan Fellowship University of Missouri School of Journalism Spring 1994 written by Allysa Lynn Adams and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences working as a field producer for ABC News at the Washington bureau. Includes field notes and examples of work. The research component "focus[es] on the changing role of network news bureaus in the wake of large scale cutbacks by the networks." (1, p. 7) "It is clear that bureau closings and staff cutbacks have had an impact on the network news divisions. But what will network news look like in a market that competes with CNN ... ? And what will network news look like in a time when the public is demanding more and more real life drama from the news?" (1, p. 10) This is what the research discusses.

Download or read book Washington Reporting Program written by Elizabeth Catherine Mattern and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journalism master's project includes a professional work component and a research component. The professional work component details the author's experiences writing for The Nashville Banner, The Galveston County Daily News, and The Santa Fe New Mexican while based in Washington, D.C. Includes field notes and examples of work. In the research component, entitled "A study of East Coast bias in the national print media," the author examines this subject. Includes a literature review.