Professional project : Orange County Register ; Research project : the ring of truth : document use among investigative journalists at the Washington Post

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Label

Professional project : Orange County Register ; Research project : the ring of truth : document use among investigative journalists at the Washington Post

Title remainder

Orange County Register ; Research project : the ring of truth : document use among investigative journalists at the Washington Post

Statement of responsibility

Morgan Cook

Title variation

• Orange County Register
• Ring of truth : document use among investigative journalists at the Washington Post
• Ring of truth : document use at the Washington Post

Creator

• Cook, Morgan, (Morgan Elizabeth)

Contributor

• Kennedy, George, 1941-
• University of Missouri--Columbia, School of Journalism

Degree granting institution

• University of Missouri--Columbia, School of Journalism

Thesis advisor

• Kennedy, George, 1941-

Subject

• Journalism -- Study and teaching -- Missouri | Columbia
• Reporters and reporting -- Washington (D.C.)
• Information resources -- Washington (D.C.)
• Reporters and reporting -- Study and teaching (Internship) -- Washington (D.C.)
• Investigative reporting -- Washington (D.C.)

Language

eng

Summary

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 the Orange County Register's Washington, D.C. bureau as a general assignment reporter. Includes field notes and examples of work. In the research component the author examines "how , why, and with what frequency investigative reporters source documents, and how document sourcing affects the public's perception of the information and the author ... [The research examines] why reporters ... use documents as sources in their articles and their perceptions of the benefits gained by citing them." (p. 3) The source of this research is the Washington Post. Includes a literature review

Cataloging source

MUU

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• theses