Works on this list of secondary sources focus primarily on Mississippi (and to a much lesser extent the South).
As well as published books that examine aspects of journalism and mass media, this page includes unpublished theses and dissertations from graduates of the University of Mississippi and other institutions. Some of these dissertations and theses require advance notice to arrange transfer from an off-site facility -- check the link to the catalog record to confirm details.
Andrew Mark Abernathy. "High Tension, Deep South: Southern Identity, the Student Press and the Integration Story at the University of Georgia, the University of Mississippi and the University of Alabama 1961-1963" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2010).
Angela Ann Abraham. "Television and the Survival of the Miss Mississippi Pageant" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1991).
Jane Clover Alexander. "Special Problems for Practioners of Public Relations in Nonprofit Organizations: A Study of Five Organizations in Jackson, Mississippi" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1993).
Mark Lawrence Barden. "The Uses and Needs Associated with Religious Television Viewing in Oxford, MS" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1982).
Karl Michael Baymor. "An Analysis of Newspaper Uses and Gratifications by Blacks and Whites in Greenwood, Mississippi" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1981).
Dolores Smith Bell. "Truth and Media Credibility: A Case Study of the Hattiesburg 'Hit Man' Incident" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1987).
Ralph Bernard Braseth Jr. "Academic Dishonesty among Undergraduate Journalism Students" (Ed.D. Dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1996). University of Mississippi students comprised the population under study.
Ralph B. Braseth. "Factors that Affect Job Satisfaction Among Mississippi Television News Reporters" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1992).
Paul Brooks. "A Comparison of Media Use by Leaders and Non-Leaders in a Rural Community in the Mid-South: A Case Study of Oxford, MS" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1980).
Jack Burrage. "The Oxford Eagle as Seen from Its Files, 1883-1950" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1955).
Louise Wootton Bush. "Propaganda During the Civil War as Seen in the Mississippi Newspapers" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1943).
Walter Butler. "An Evaluation of the School -- Public Relations in Selected Secondary Schools in Mississippi" (Ed.D. Thesis; University of Southern Mississippi; 1963). Call Number: LB2846 B8.
Robert Burr Cade. "Mass Media Influence on the Candidate Choice, Time of Vote Decision, and Ticket-Splitting Voting Behavior of Jasper County, Mississippi, Voters in the 1975 General Election" (M.A. Thesis; University of Southern Mississippi, 1977). Call Number: JK1926 C33.
George Dickson Cannon. "A Categorical Analysis of Educational Content Disseminated Through Selected Mississippi Newspapers" (Ed.D. Thesis; University of Southern Mississippi; 1971). Call Number: LB2846 C35.
Emelda V. Capati. A Country Editor Faces Secession: The Story of The Oxford Intelligencer: 1860-1861 (University, MS: Academy Press, 1961). Call Number: PN4899 O95 O9.
Henry Nash Carrier III. "Legal Publication Laws of Mississippi" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1969).
Hodding Carter. Their Words Were Bullets: The Southern Press in War, Reconstruction, and Peace (Athens: University of Georgia Press, [1969]). Call Number: PN4857 C3.
Michael Douglas Chute. "Clayton Thomas Rand and the Role of the Rural Press in the Development of Mississippi" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Southern Mississippi, 2001). Clayton Thomas Rand Author owned the Neshoba Democrat, DeKalb Democrat, and Tunica Times, and wrote a nationally syndiated column. On the benefits of life insurance.Call Number: PN4874 R27 C58 2001a.
Marie Clare Christiansen. "Propaganda in Political Advertisements: An Assessment of Propaganda Usage in Mississippi's 2003 Gubernatorial Political Announcements" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2004).
Thomas Dionysius Clark. The Rural Press and the New South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1948]). Call Number: PN4893 C46.
Thomas Dionysius Clark. The Southern Country Editor (Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1964). Call Number: PN4893 C5 1964.
Steven D. Classen. Watching Jim Crow: The Struggles over Mississippi TV, 1955-1969 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). Call Number: F349 J13 C58 2004.
Charles Clift III. "The WLBT-TV Case, 1964-1969: An Historical Analysis" (Ph.D. Dissertation; Indiana University, 1976). WLBT television station in Jackson, Mississippi. Call Number: KF2805 C45 1976.
Monroe F. Cockrell. Those Dueling Editors of Vicksburg, 1841-1860: A Study from Contemporary Newspapers ([Evanston, IL]: 1956). Call Number: CR4595 U5 C56 1956.
W. Lance Conn. "Crisis in Black and White: The McComb, Mississippi Enterprise-Journal's Coverage of Racial News, 1961-64" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1991).
Gregory C. Crofton. "Defending Segregation: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and the Press" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2000).
Elizabeth M. Curlee. "The Phenix: Hernando, Mississippi, 1841-1846" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1970).
Dateline Freedom: Civil Rights and the Press (Washington, DC: Greater Washington Telecommunications Association, 1988). VHS recording. Call Number: PN4882.5 D38 1988.
David R. Davies. The Press and Race: Mississippi Journalists Confront the Movement (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001). Call Number: F350 N4 P74 2001.
Deanna Gale Denley. "The Delta Review: An Analysis of the Demise of a Southern Magazine" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1991). Published in Greenville, Mississippi.
James Dickerson. Dixie's Dirty Secret: The True Story of How the Government, the Media, and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integration and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998). Call Number: E185.93 M6 D54 1998.
Calvin Dorsey. "The FCC Policy-Making System and the WLBT Case" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1976). WLBT television station in Jackson, Mississippi.
Ouida C. Drinkwater. "Discrimination Against Women in Mississippi Newsrooms: An Exploratory Study" (M.A. Thesis: University of Mississippi; 1978).
Janine Wilkes Dunlap. "The History of the Department of Journalism at the University of Mississippi, 1947-1987" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1988).
Michael Wayne Dunn. "A Descriptive Analysis of the Characteristics, Positions Obtained, and Perceptions of the Broadcast Curriculum of the Graduates of the Bachelor's Degree Program in Radio and Television at the University of Mississippi" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1980).
Debra Kerstetter Fabian. "A Comparative Study of The Ole Miss Spirit Recruitment Newspaper and Other Admission Materials Utilized by the University of Mississippi" (M..A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1983).
Beth Langston Fitts. "Journalism in the Secondary Schools in Mississippi" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1990).
Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle (Montgomery, AL: Civil Rights Education Project, Southern Poverty Law Center, [1989]). Pages 52-53 discuss Paul Guihard, a French reporter killed while covering the 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi. Call Number: E185.61 F837 1989.
William Furry. "Yoknapatawpha TV: The Television Adaptation of William Faulkner's Short Fiction" (M.A. Thesis; University of Illinois at Springfield; 1997). Call Number: PS3511 A86 Z78274.
Rudolph Burks Gandy. "A Study of Public Relations in Mississippi Junior Colleges" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1951).
William Edmond Garner. "The Vitalization of the University of Mississippi's Campus Radio Station" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1986).
Marty Gould. "The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic and the Cultural Politics of Journalistic Representation" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2002).
Hugh Davis Graham. Crisis in Print: Desegregation and the Press in Tennessee (Vanderbilt University Press, [1967]). Call Number: E185.93 T3 G7.
Albert Gibson Green. "A Study of Public Relations Programs in Selected State Supported Missisippi Junior Colleges" (Ed.D.; University of Southern Mississippi; 1965). Call Number: LB2846 G7.
Mary Wilhoit Harbour. "A History of the University of Mississippi Radio Station WCBH" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1968).
Glen Aaron Holman. "Fifty Years of Changes at the Oxford Eagle" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2000). Oxford, Mississippi.
Robert Wright Hooker. "Race and the News Media in Mississippi, 1962-1964" (M.A. Thesis; Vanderbilt University; 1971). Call Number: P94.5 M552 U6463 1971.
David Hopper. "An Analysis of Daily Newspapers in Mississippi that Charge for Online Content" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2010).
Boyce House. Cub Reporter, Being Mainly about Mr. Mooney and the Commercial Appeal (Dallas: Hightower Press, 1947). About Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney (1865-1926) and the Memphis Commerical Appeal newspaper. Call Number: PN4899 M33 C58.
Gary Huey. Rebel with a Cause: P.D. East, Southern Liberalism, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1953-1971 (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1985). P.D. East was editor of The Petal Paper which often parodied segregationists in Mississippi. Call Number: PN4874 E3 H83 1985.
Tomesha Johnson. "One Event, Two Stories: The Time Magazine and Jet Magazine Coverage of James Meredith's Integration" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2009). Integration of the University of Mississippi.
Andrew Melvin Jones. "A Survey of Industrial Enterprises in Mississippi to Ascertain the Desirability of Offering Fundamental Training Coures through the Media of Television to Upgrade Employees" (Ed.D. dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1969).
Denzil E. Keckley Jr. "The Use of Public Information Media by Public Junior Colleges in Nine Southeastern States" (Ed.D. Dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1969).
Mark Alan Keller. "Mississippi Contributors to the 'Spirit of the Times'" (Ph.D. Dissertation; Auburn University; 1979). Spirit of the Times was an antebellum sporting publication. Call Number: PN4899 N42 S65.
Donald Brooks Kelley. "Of God, Liquor, and Politics: The Mississippi Press in the Presidential Election of 1928" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1962).
Gloria Lambert Kerns. Early Newspapers of Natchez, Mississippi 1800-1828 (Shreveport, LA: J & W Enterprises, 1993). Call Number: F349 N2 K47 1993.
Jon Krampner. The Man in the Shadows: Fred Coe and the Golden Age of Television (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997). A Mississippi native, Fred Coe was a television producer for such shows as The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse (1948-1955) and Playhouse 90 (1957-1959). Call Number: PN1992.4 C64 K73 1997.
Susan Langdon. "An Analysis of the Public Television Audience in the Oxford, Mississippi Area, 1977" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1977).
Tom Lamont Jr. "Ascertaining the Problems, Needs, and Interests of the WCBH Service Area" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1982). University of Mississippi student television station.
Rosabelle Jordan Land. "Walthall Warden Index, February 1882 -- December 1892, January 1901 -- December 1907" (M.Lib.Sci Essay; University of Mississippi; 1968). Index for Walthall, Mississippi newspaper. Call Number: Lib.Sc. Essay L363.
Scarlet Lawrence. "Common Problems of Access to Records: Comparative Analysis and Mississippi Case Study" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2003). Journalism.
Glenda Rawson Lester. "Utilization of Educational Television for Instruction in Mississippi Public Junior Colleges" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1984).
Deidre Faye Jackson. "George A. McLean: Profile of a People's Newspaper Publisher" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1995). George A. McLean owned and edited the Tupelo Daily Journal in Mississippi.
Dexter E. Jeffries. "Richard Wright and Daily Worker: A Native Son's Journalistic Apprenticeship" (Ph.D. Dissertation: City College of New York; 2000). Mississippi native. Call Number: PS3545 R815 Z6649 2000a.
Lindsay A. Jordan. "BP's Use of Twitter as a Crisis Communication Tool During the Gulf Oil Spill Crisis Response Phase" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2011).
Harry D. Marsh. Hodding Carter's Newspaper on School Desegregation, 1954-1955 (Columbia, SC: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1985). Hodding Carter published the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times during the civil rights movement in Mississippi and won a Pulitzer Prize for editorials. Call Number: PN4722 J6 no. 92.
Claudia Martino. "A Survey of Newspapers Published in Grenada, Mississippi from 1835 to 1980" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1980).
Richard Devin Massey. "The Inside World: Journalism at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, 1964-1971" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2000).
Terri Taylor McClendon. "Marketing as a Tool of Institutional Public Relations: The University of Mississippi, 1969-1979" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1985).
Flora Ann Caldwell McGhee. "Mississippi Black Newspapers: Their History, Content, and Future" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Southern Mississippi; 1985). Call Number: PN4882.5 M24 1985.
Patricia McKissack and Frederick McKissack. Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Against Violence (Hillsdale, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1991). Children's book on the African American journalist Ida B. Wells, a native of Mississippi. Call Number: E185.97 W55 M37 1991.
Thomas B. McLaughlin. "'The Hell You Say, Brother': The Experiences of P.D. East in Mississippi" (B.A. Thesis; Princeton University; 1984). P.D. East published The Petal Paper in Petal Mississippi and often parodied segregationists. Call Number: PN4874 E3 M24 1984a.
Paula McMillan. "The South Reporter and Social Transition" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1992). Holly Springs, Mississippi newspaper.
Carolyn Heard McMillin. "A History of the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1985).
Bob McRaney Sr. The History of Radio in Mississippi (McRaney, [1979]). Call Number: PN1991.3 U6 M4.
Media Works. Passing It On: Voices from Black America's Past (Bethesda, MD: Media Works, [199-]). Cassette tape recordings, including a section on Memphis Tennessee's WDIA, the first all-black radio station. Call Number: E185 P27.
Edwin Ernest Meek. E. Percy Howe's Dollar Democrat: A Frontier Mississippi Newspaper, 1842-1846 (University, MS: Academy Press, 1963). The Dollar Democrat was an Oxford, Mississippi newspaper. Call Number: PN4899 O95 D6.
Edwin Ernest Meek. "WLBT's Interim Operation: An Historical and Analytical Study" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Southern Mississippi; 1974). Call Number: HE8700.8 M44.
Ruby Bostick Midkiff. "The Extent of Use of Instructional Television in Mississippi Public Schools and Facotrs Which Encourage, Limit, or Prevent Usage" (Ed.D. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1984).
Kay Mills. Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case that Transformed Television (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2004). WLBT TV in Jackson, Mississippi. Call Number: KF228 U53 M55 2004.
Mississippi Publishers Corporation. Historical Background of the Clarion Ledger and Jackson Daily News ([1969]). Call Number: PN4828 M7 M5.
The Mississippian (University of Mississippi, 1986). VHS recording of documentary on the history of the University of Mississippi student newspaper. Call Number: LH1 M7 D35 1986.
Johnny Morgan. "Determining How Mississippi Farmers Use Radio to Obtain Agriculture News and Information" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1990).
Timothy A. Nicholas. "The Spirit of an Age: The Prohibition Press of Mississippi, 1876-1890" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Southern Mississippi, 1996). Call Number: NV5090 M7 N52 1999a.
Julia Helgason Nicholls. "Writing the Feature: A Look at Contemporary Mississippi Through Features" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1986).
John C. Niederschmidt II. "Creating an Internet Website for the Daily Mississippian" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1997). University of Mississippi campus newspaper.
William Joseph Oliver. "A Guide for Program Personnel in the Mississippi Small-Market Radio Station" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1968).
Michael A. Patronik. "Written in Black and White: A Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of the Desegregation of Three Flagship Southern Public Universities" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2011). Examines the integration of the University of Georgia, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Alabama.
Adrienne Cole Phillips. "Responses in Mississippi to John Brown's Raid" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1983). Includes analysis of secessionist newspaper editors.
James E. Prince III. "The Civil Rights Struggle of a Weekly Editor: Philadelphia Copes with Murder" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1991). Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Virginia Gillespie O'Connell. "Daily Newspaper Coverage of the 1979 General Election Campaign in Mississippi" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1982).
Mary Scott Owen. "The Effects of the ITV Series Figure Out on the Mathematics Achievements of Fifth-Grade Students in Mississippi" (Ed.D.; University of Mississippi; 1983).
Rory Campbell Reardon. "Television Viewing Patterns of Low Power Television Station WO7B N, Bruce, Mississippi, in Calhoun County, Mississippi: A Statistical Analysis" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1986).
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 2006). Call Number: PN4888 R3 R63 2006.
James E. Robinson. "Hodding Carter: Southern Liberal, 1907-1972" (Ph.D. Dissertation; Mississippi State University; 1974). Hodding Carter was editor of the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times. Call Number: PS3505 A79 Z7.
P. Douglas Rowell. "The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Apparent Differences in Attitude toward Radio Programming: AM "Top 40" or FM Progressive Rock" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1976).
Martin Allen Russell. "Opening Doors in a Closed Society: Mississippi's Open Meetings Law" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2003).
Thomas Clayton Scott. "A Brief History of the Mississippi Publishers Corporation" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1990). Regarding the Clarion Ledger and Jackson Daily News in Jackson, Mississippi.
James T. Sellers. "A History of the Jackson State Times: An Agent of Change in a Closed Society" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Southern Mississippi; 1992). Call Number: PN4899 J25 S73 1992a. Jackson, Mississippi newspaper.
Nicole R. Sheriff. "Best Practices for Disaster Coverage: An Analysis of How the Sun Herald Newspaper and WLOX-TV Covered Hurricane Katrina" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2011).
John Robert Shields. "Half-Sheets and Hope: Mississippi Newspapers in the Civil War" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1974).
Charles A. Simmons. The African American Press: A History of News Coverage During National Crises, with Special Reference to Four Black Newspapers, 1827-1965 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998). Includes a chapter on the Jackson Advocate. Call Number: PN4882.5 S57 1998.
Gregory Sims. "Hurricane Katrina: Images and Voices of African American Women" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2010). Examination of television news coverage.
John Ray Skates. A Southern Editor Views the National Scene: Frederick Sullens and the Jackson Mississippi Daily News (State College, MS: 1965). Call Number: PN4828 M7 S4.
Debra Catherine Smith. "A Survey of Media Use in Greenwood, Mississippi: A Focus on the Black Minority Audience" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1981).
Edwin Bernard Smith. "Saga of a Struggline Periodical: A History of Rejoice!, 1987-1992" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1993). A gospel music magazine published by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
Frank E. Smith. Dale Mullen and Modern Mississippi Literature. Reprint from the Journal of Mississippi History vol. 48, no. 4 (November 1986). Dale Mullen edited the Oxford Eagle newspaper along with several literary magazines. Call Number: PS266 M7 S65 1986.
Lauren N. Smith. "Hazel Brannon Smith: An Examination of Her Editorials on Three Pivotal Civil Rights Events" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2012). Hazel Brannon Smith owned and edited the Durant Times and the Lexington Advertiser.
Sidney L. "Pepper" Smith. "Getting There, Being There, Working There: The Impact of Race Upon Civil Rights Reporting in the Deep South (1955-1965)" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1992).
Elizabeth Byrd Sneed. "Religion News Coverage in Two Mississippi Daily Newspapers: A Content Analysis" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1994).
Lisa K. Speer. "'Contrary Mary': The Life of Mary Dawson Cain" (Ph.D. Dissertaton; University of Mississippi; 1998). Mary Cain owned and operated the Summit Sun from 1936 to 1984.
Alma Henley Stead. "The Media as Viewed by Fifteen Black Journalists in Mississippi" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1979).
Melanie Lefferts Stone. "National Media Coverage of Higher Education: A Case Study of Three Universities and the Role of Public Relations" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Mississippi; 2005). Examines the University of Mississippi, Louisiana State University; and the University of North Carolina in 2002-2003.
Robin Belinda Street. "A Case Study in Crisis Public Relations: The Meredith Crisis at the University of Mississippi" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1985).
Mary Floyd Sumners, "Edgar Stewart Wilson: The Mississippi Eagle, Journalist of the New South" (Ph.D. Dissertation; Mississippi State University, 1962). Edgar Stewart Wilson lived from 1858 to 1935. Call Number: PN4874 W65 S8.
Robert Talley. One Hundred Years of the Commercial Appeal; The Story of the Greatest Romance in American Journalism, 1840 to 1940 ([Memphis, TN]: Commercial Appeal, 1940). Call Number: PN4899 M33 C6.
Julius E. Thompson. Black Life in Mississippi: Essays on Political, Social and Cultural Studies in a Deep South State (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001). Includes history of Mississippi African American newspapers. Call Number: E185.93 M6 T48 2001.
Julius E. Thompson. The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865-1985 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993). Call Number: PN4882.5 T35 1993.
Julius E. Thompson. The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865-1985: A Directory (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1988). Call Number: PN4882.5 T35 1988.
John Rochelle Tisdale. "Medgar Evers (1925-1963) and the Mississippi Press" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of North Texas; 1996). Call Number: E185.97 E94 T548 1996a.
Walter Thomas Viner. "A Content Analysis of Political Advertisements Appearing in Daily Mississippi Newspapers During the 1980 Campaign Season" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1982).
Ann Waldron. Hodding Carter: The Reconstruction of a Racist (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1993). Hodding Carter published the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times during the civil rights movement in Mississippi and won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials. Call Number: PN4874 C27 W35 1993.
Mary Helene Warner. "A History of Thacker Mountain Radio" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2009). Oxford, Mississippi variety show airing on Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
Edward Jenning Webb Jr. "High School Press Freedom in Mississippi" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1986).
Susan Weill. In a Madhouse's Din: Civil Rights Coverage by Mississippi's Daily Press, 1948-1968 (Westport, CN: Praeger, 2002). Call Number: E185.93 M6 W35 2002.
William Franklin West. "'The Case of the Reluctant Story': The Allain Sex Scandal" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1995). Regarding Mississippi Governor Bill Allain (1984-1988).
John A. Whalen. Maverick Among the Magnolias: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story (John A. Whalen, circa 2000). Smith was the owner and editor of four weekly newspapers in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, and was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Call Number: PN4874 S65 W53 2000.
Colleen R. White. "The Jackson Advocate: 1938-1995 A Historical Overview" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1996).
Joseph Luther White. "Facing a Hostile Public: A Mississippi Editor's Dilemma" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1966).
Connie Williams. "Black Television Reporters in Mississippi: How They Perceive Their Positions" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1992).
James Rudell Willis Jr. "The Spirit of the Times: A Pontotoc, Mississippi Newspaper, 1841-1842" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1974).
Henry David Windham III. "A Content Analysis of International News in Mississippi Daily Newspaper" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1980).
Ruth Gaskell Woodbury. "Newspapers and Public Opinion in Civil War Memphis" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1947).
James Neil Woodruff. "An Economic Analysis of Letterpress and Offset Printing Techniques in Daily Newspapers in the Mid-South" (Ph.D. Dissertation; University of Mississippi; 1971).
James Neil Woodruff. "Public Relations in Mississippi Industries" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 1958).
Lauren H. Zimmerman. "A Web 2.0 Strategy for the Meek School of Journalism and New Media" (M.A. Thesis; University of Mississippi; 2010). Meek School of Journalism at the University of Mississippi.