Date of Award
5-2010
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Communication
Abstract
Recently, there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of, and depth of coverage of celebrity lives. Celebrities are now appearing in hard news stories, pictured performing mundane daily activities, and seen supporting various causes. This research explores the increased emergence of entertainment news in the print media by examining the dominance of celebrity coverage in articles involving activist causes. Does print media coverage of celebrity activism focus more on the cause or the celebrity involved? Using the data collected from September 2008 to September 2009 issues of Time magazine, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report, this research has shown that print media reports of celebrity activism is largely celebrity focused.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Amanda, "Celebrities and Causes: Where Does the Focus Lie in Print Media Coverage?" (2010). Communication. 2.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/honorscollege_communication/2