The 37-inch plasma research project
What is the research project?
The current Pine Needle research project is titled "Journalism Students’ Identification of News Value Differences Between a Cable News Channel and Newspapers."
What's it about?
More events occur on any given day than are reported by mass media organizations as news. News professionals operating as gatekeepers determine which events are reported as news. An event’s newsworthiness determines whether gatekeepers allow coverage into the news stream.
Newsworthiness is characterized by seven news values commonly accepted by industry gatekeepers: impact, timeliness, conflict, prominence, proximity, currency, bizarreness.
The purpose of the research project is to compare whether news values expressed by a cable news station are different from news values commonly expressed by newspapers.
What's the research question?
The research question is "How do news values expressed by a cable news channel compare with news values expressed by newspapers?"
Participants will identify, analyze, and compare news values used by a cable news station with those used by newspapers. Analysis will be reported each day right here on this blog!
You may recall that the Agenda Setting Theory of the Press by McCombs and Shaw (1972) held that media determine the news agenda by selecting which events to cover and ranking them in order of significance that then is adopted by audiences. This research project is a qualitative comparison of news values expressed by the Cable News Network (CNN) main channel with news values expressed by newspapers.
Who is taking part?
Participants are senior editorial staffers on The Pine Needle campus newspaper. They will observe CNN during their assigned shifts in the newspaper office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. At the end of each shift, a staffer will post on this blog her or his observations and a short reflection on what they saw during their shift.
Who are the project directors?
The research is a project of:
The current Pine Needle research project is titled "Journalism Students’ Identification of News Value Differences Between a Cable News Channel and Newspapers."
What's it about?
More events occur on any given day than are reported by mass media organizations as news. News professionals operating as gatekeepers determine which events are reported as news. An event’s newsworthiness determines whether gatekeepers allow coverage into the news stream.
Newsworthiness is characterized by seven news values commonly accepted by industry gatekeepers: impact, timeliness, conflict, prominence, proximity, currency, bizarreness.
The purpose of the research project is to compare whether news values expressed by a cable news station are different from news values commonly expressed by newspapers.
What's the research question?
The research question is "How do news values expressed by a cable news channel compare with news values expressed by newspapers?"
Participants will identify, analyze, and compare news values used by a cable news station with those used by newspapers. Analysis will be reported each day right here on this blog!
You may recall that the Agenda Setting Theory of the Press by McCombs and Shaw (1972) held that media determine the news agenda by selecting which events to cover and ranking them in order of significance that then is adopted by audiences. This research project is a qualitative comparison of news values expressed by the Cable News Network (CNN) main channel with news values expressed by newspapers.
Who is taking part?
Participants are senior editorial staffers on The Pine Needle campus newspaper. They will observe CNN during their assigned shifts in the newspaper office from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. At the end of each shift, a staffer will post on this blog her or his observations and a short reflection on what they saw during their shift.
Who are the project directors?
The research is a project of:
- Dr. Anthony Curtis, Professor, Mass Communications
- Dr. Charles Harrington, University Provost
- Dr. Judy Curtis, Asst. Professor, Mass Communications, & Pine Needle Advisor
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