Perceived Source Credibility of Local Television News: The Impact of Television Form and Presence

Controlling Nature: Weathercasts on Local Television News

Since discovering the shrinking politician sound bite, researchers have shown that TV news grew more journalist-centered since the 1960s. To explore how far journalistic authority extends, this study turns to the weather. We examine local coverage weekday mornings on three local stations before a national convention. Close qualitative reading, supplemented by content coding, compares weather rh...

Framing Responsibility on Local Television News

Acknowledgments: There are many who deserve thanks for their roles in the development of this project. First and foremost, this research would not have been possible without funding from the Jesse Bell duPont Fund. My Masters Thesis committee members were instrumental in providing ideas and fine tuning the finished product. The raw data provided by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, espe...

Race and the Misrepresentation of Victimization on Local Television News

"Media Effects" Paradigms for the Analysis of Local Television News

Although television is still the dominant source, in recent years the public's consumption of news programming has shifted noticeably. While formerly audiences tuned in to the networks' national newscasts with regularity, today more people rely on local news programs than on network news. Opinion surveys recorded this shift as early as 1993 when the Roper Organization's annual survey of televis...

the impact of attending efl classes on the level of depression of iranian female learners and their attributional complexity

می توان گفت واقعیت چند لایه ا ی کلاس های زبان انگلیسی بسیار حائز اهمیت است، زیرا عواطف و بینش های زبان آموزان تحت تاثیر قرار می گیرد. در پژوهش پیش رو، گفته می شود که دبیران با در پیش گرفتن رویکرد فرا-انسانگرایی ، قادرند در زندگی دانش آموزانشان نقش مهمی را ایفا سازند. بر اساس گفته ی ویلیامز و بردن (2000)، برای کرل راجرز، یکی از بنیان گذاران رویکرد انسانگرایی ، یادگیری بر مبنای تجربه، نوعی از یاد...