Journalist Lyndy Berryhill didn't plan on a career in small-town journalism when she graduated from college in 2017, but the editor of the Stone County Enterprise in Wiggins, Mississippi is glad now that she did. Berryhill recently spoke to a group of journalism students about her …
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, based in Tupelo, Mississippi, is one of the most successful print news organizations statewide. Although the news outlet has evolved since its first publication in 1872, it continues to remain dedicated to covering local news and sports across northeastern Mississippi …
A recent study investigated the ways news articles portrayed “locus of responsibility” for cancer causes and solutions, and it identified the factors associated with the different LOR frames in cancer news in South Korea. The study focused on the medical expertise of health journalists and how …
A recent study of media in 51 countries shows that the internet has a big impact on the aggregate revenue of major media industries. The study was conducted by Sung Wook Ji, an assistant professor at the Media Communication Division, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in …
Departing Jackson, Mississippi, headed south on Interstate 55, you will see signs for McComb, Mississippi — a small town along the interstate just shy of twenty miles north of the Mississippi-Louisiana line. While the signs leaving Jackson might be large, if you blink driving past …
A new study found that “it is a commonplace” for journalists to carry their smartphones wherever they go because they are constantly looking for news. As a result, they have less free time now than they had at the beginning of their careers. The study, titled …
For the last few years, third-party technology firms have been helping newsrooms become more automated. A recent study, however, found that newsroom automation is being adopted slowly due to the scarcity of resources and skilled journalists in the news organizations. The study relied on interviews with …
America’s community-based daily and weekly newspapers remain the best-read publications in the print-based journalism industry, a recent study show. They have the 62 percent of total print circulation, even though the number of those newspapers has declined since 2004. According to the study, about 1,800 newspapers either …
Human interest and daily news were once in the same section until modern re-classification systems caused the news to split into different genres. This was the research subject for Perry Parks, a researcher from Michigan State University. Park analyzed entries from 75 journalism textbooks, from 1894 …
National newspapers in South Korea considered their government most responsible for outbreaks of avian influenza, a recent study shows. It also showed that the stories studied by the researchers mentioned causes more than the solutions. Brooke Weberling McKeever, an associate professor, and Minhee Choi, a doctoral candidate …
American newspapers, identified as mostly “liberal” in nature by the researchers, held more responsible the “victims” than “accused” while covering the campus-based sexual assault incidents, a study shows. According to the study, the five liberal newspapers were The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Denver …
Changes in audience behavior can have profound effects on media institutions, and that is why news organizations employ various techniques to engage readers. Neil Thurman of the Department of Communication Studies and Media Research of LMU Munich in Germany and Richard Fletcher of Reuters Institute for …
