Donald L. Shaw

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Donald L. Shaw (born October 27, 1936 ) is an American communications scientist .

Life

Shaw studied journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Bachelor and Master). He then worked as a reporter for what is now the Asheville Citizen-Times . He earned a Ph.D. in Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin and then returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he became Professor of Journalism. From 1983 to 1992 he was Associate Editor or Editor of Journalism Quarterly . He was also co-editor of the Foreign News and the New World Information Order .

Shaw worked with Maxwell E. McCombs to develop the agenda-setting approach.

He was a participant in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program and is a Colonel in the Army National Guard . It was used in the Pentagon during the First Gulf War .

literature

  • Guido H. Stempel III: Shaw, Donald L. In: Guido H. Stempel III, Jacqueline Nash Gifford (Ed.): Historical Dictionary of Political Communication in the United States . Greenwood Press, Westport 1999, ISBN 0-313-29545-X , p. 133.

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