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Doctoral student Jason Martin‘s article, "When It Comes to Headlines, Winning Really is Everything," was published in the fall 2009 edition of the Newspaper Research Journal.

The article examines the visibility of college football coaches in newspaper sports journalism. A survey of national print media found strong correlations between a coach’s career longevity, his won-loss record, and the number of his team’s appearances in the Associated Press poll rating the top 25 college football teams and the number of times that coach was mentioned in newspaper and wire reports.

The article began as Martin’s master’s thesis under the direction of Roy Howard Professor David Weaver.

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