Research questions: What were we trying to figure out?
This project was an attempt to answer – or at least explore – the following questions:
- How much truly local coverage (as opposed to wire stories or national coverage republished locally) did each of the six news sources produce for their communities during the study periods?
- What topics did they cover, and how was that coverage framed?
- How did coverage change over time?
- How did coverage differ between news sources and communities?
"Local news and COVID-19 in North Carolina" table of contents
- Local news and COVID-19 in North Carolina
- Introduction
- The Problem: COVID-19 and the shrinking local newsroom
- Research questions: What were we trying to figure out?
- Background: What does the existing research say?
- Methodology: How we did the study
- Findings: What we learned
- Discussion: What do the results mean?
- Recommendations: Where do we go from here?
- Limitations: What we couldn’t do
- Areas for further study
- Conclusion
- References, About the author, Special thanks
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