Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1946. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 199)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-149). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

This study is a description of newsgathering practices and how newspaper reporters produce news accounts in the city hall setting, as directly experienced in a participant-observation research situation with city hall reporters. Classical concerns with news have assumed news to be stories selected from and reporting the "objective reality of social facts" (Durkheim, 1938) occurring "out there" in the world as intrinsically "newsworthy" independent of their telling as "news". However, within a new stance taken toward the news by a number of scholars, city hall news is focused on here as the practical accomplishment of reporters' routine newsgathering practices. A central concern is to learn and describe how city hall reporters organize their observations and background knowledge of civic business so as to produce "city hall news". Another major focus is to describe and attend to my own observational situation within my account as the medium through which an ethnographic account of city hall news account-making is accomplished. By attending to my ongoing learning process, this thesis is an exercise in exploring my direct experience of this news-gathering setting as a means of discovering what it is to observe an occasion so as to produce an account of it. The conceptual framework of the "co-observational situation" is introduced for portraying the organization of my research experience as a co-observer, having access to accomplish concurrent observations of city hall occasions with newsgather-ing reporters. Statements expressed by reporters as adequate and reasonable explanations of their newsgathering work are presented as the "data" for this account, along with field-noted and tape-recorded observations made while accompanying my chief reporter-informant. As a co-observer of city hall business occasions with reporters I could see only part of the process of how news-gathering is done. Chapter 3 describes how I learned what there is to observe happening in city council meetings as regular news-gathering occasions. It is discovered that not everything reported as "news" about a council meeting or topic of decision-making can be observable within the time boundaries of the meeting occasion itself. Other routine occasions of newsgathering such as committee meetings and mayor's press conferences are observed as previewing developing newsworthy topics of civic business. Reporters are found to have a sense of knowing what to look for as "the story of the day". What becomes told as the "newsworthy" item of civic business discussed in a city council meeting 'today' is not necessarily found or initiated as a "newsworthy" topic solely within the occasion of that meeting. Instead that topic of "newsworthy11 civic business is often worked up as "news" in earlier and later newsgathering situations available to the city hall reporter. / Arts, Faculty of / Sociology, Department of / Graduate

by Cheung Hin-yu, Jimmy. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-68). / Chapter CHAPTER I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.2 / Definitions --- p.2 / A Brief Historical Account --- p.4 / The Contemporary Situation --- p.7 / The Local Scenario --- p.8 / Research Questions --- p.8 / Significance and Scope of the Study --- p.9 / Chapter CHAPTER II. --- PHOTOJOURNALISM AS A VISUAL MEDIUM OF NEWS REPORTAGE --- p.12 / Functions of Photojournalism --- p.12 / Photojournalism as an Agent Facilitating the Understanding of a News Event --- p.12 / Why can Photojournalism Facilitate the Understanding of a News Event? --- p.13 / How does Photojournalism Facilitate the Understanding of a News Event? --- p.20 / Counter-Arguments on the Notion of Understanding --- p.24 / Reconsidering the Notion of Understanding --- p.30 / Chapter CHAPTER III. --- THE CATEGORIES OF COMBINATIONS OF PHOTOS AND CUTLINES --- p.34 / The Importance of the Treatment of Photos and Cutlines --- p.34 / Categories of Combinations of Photos and Cutlines --- p.35 / Chapter 1. --- Photo-Dominant-Cutlines-Dominant --- p.35 / Chapter 2. --- Photo-Dominant-Cutlines-Supportive --- p.36 / Chapter 3. --- Photo-Supportive-Cutlines-Dominant --- p.36 / Chapter 4. --- Photo-Supportive-Cutlines-Supportive --- p.39 / Photo-Dominant-Cutline-Supportive as the Ideal Form of Photojournalism --- p.39 / Chapter CHAPTER IV. --- FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS AND METHODOLOGY --- p.43 / Chapter 1. --- Words-loaded News Photos --- p.43 / Chapter 2. --- Self-explanatory News Photos --- p.44 / Chapter 3. --- Conventionalised Portrayal and Cultural-specific News Photos --- p.44 / Hypotheses --- p.45 / Operationalisation of Key Variables --- p.46 / Methodology --- p.47 / Chapter CHAPTER V. --- FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS --- p.51 / Findings --- p.51 / Common Elements of Self-explanatory News Photos --- p.55 / Implications on the Formulation of Guiding Principles --- p.57 / Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research --- p.60 / Chapter CHAPTER VI. --- CONCLUSION --- p.62 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.64 / APPENDICES / Chapter I. --- Supplement on the Analysis of Cutlines --- p.69 / Chapter II. --- Diagram Summarising the Procedure of Doing the Experiment --- p.74 / Chapter III(A). --- Experimental Instrument of Words-loaded News Photos --- p.75 / Chapter III(B). --- Experimental Instrument of Self-explanatory News Photos --- p.80 / Chapter III(C). --- Experimental Instrument of Conventionalised Portrayal and Cultural-specific News Photos --- p.86 / Chapter IV. --- Guidelines for News Themes Identification --- p.91

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2003. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 136, [154] p. : ill. (some col.). Includes Web links to West Virginia newspaper articles on mining and aging. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-21).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on December 28, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (B.A.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2009. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. Thesis supervisor: John J. Curley.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.