Date of Award

1-1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Communication

First Advisor

Maynard W. Brown

Second Advisor

Earl H. Huth

Abstract

Since so many elements of interest and importance are evident in an examination of the "big" news stories of any year, this study was made for the purpose of determining whether or not there could be found any norms or standards by which the "bigness" of news stories could be determined.

It is also the aim of this work to learn whether the factors which make a story one of the biggest one year recur in the selection of the big stories for another year.

In examining and analyzing the lists of stories, an attempt is made to see if certain elements of interest must, of necessity, be present in order to make a story important.

A comparison of the elements considered of paramount importance in selection of the biggest stories of the year and those accorded major front page display in the two evening Milwaukee newspapers is also part of the work of this thesis.

Comments

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Journalism of Marquette University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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