Nilagia McCoy, Author at Shorenstein Center

Diminishing Returns: A Comparison of the 1968 and 2000 Election Night Broadcasts

Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Politics & Government, Publications / By Nilagia McCoy

A report by Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at the Shorenstein Center, examines how the use of exit polling and projections of winners by major broadcast networks has changed over time. Patterson finds that although not “deeply flawed,” the potential of election night telecasts has not been fully realized. He provides […]

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Whispers and Screams: The Partisan Nature of Editorial Pages

Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Politics & Government, Publications / By Nilagia McCoy

A paper by Michael Tomasky, spring 2003 fellow, examines the partisan intensity of the nation’s agenda-setting liberal and conservative editorial pages. This paper finds that while the pages are more or less equally partisan when it comes to supporting or opposing a given presidential administration’s policy pronouncements, the conservative pages are often far more partisan

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U.S. Government Secrecy and the Current Crackdown on Leaks

Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications, War, Defense & Security / By Nilagia McCoy

A paper by Jack Nelson, fall 2002 fellow (deceased), explores the relationship between the government and the press regarding the contentious issue of leaks. This paper looks at the long and continuing struggle over the scope of laws to punish leakers and discusses the growth of secrets over the years. It also examines efforts to

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Misunderstanding Each Other

International Affairs, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications / By Nilagia McCoy

A paper by Richard Lambert, fall 2002 fellow, explores U.S. – Europe relations through the lens of the media. The early 2000s saw a change of tone in the reporting and commentary on western Europe in the U.S. print media. From the right of the political spectrum came a sense of deep distrust and icy

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Media Coverage of Corporate Social Responsibility

Business & Economics, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications / By Nilagia McCoy

A paper by James T. Hamilton, fall 2002 Kalb Chair on Global Communications, explores the factors shaping media coverage of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This paper first reviews the many theories and definitions of CSR. Debates about CSR in academia, policy circles, and business arenas center on the set of policy issues involved, stakeholders affected,

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Redefining Foreign Correspondence

International Affairs, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications / By Nilagia McCoy

A paper by John Maxwell Hamilton, fall 2002 fellow, and Eric Jenner, examines the changing nature of foreign correspondence. Significant declines in the number of foreign correspondents and in the amount of space and time allotted to foreign news by print and broadcast media have raised criticism that the news media are “progressively less good

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Dialectical Spaces in the Global Public Sphere: Media Memories across Generations.

International Affairs, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications / By Nilagia McCoy

Ingrid Volkmer, spring 2002 fellow, argues that the spread of international news channels has created “imagined communities,” which affect political alliances, conventional journalism and – increasingly – national public spheres. This paper discusses new issues of globalization and focuses on the impact of media-related globalization processes on “life-worlds” in various countries. Download the paper (PDF).

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While America Slept: Coverage of Terrorism from 1993 to September 11, 2001

International Affairs, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications, War, Defense & Security / By Nilagia McCoy

A paper by Matthew V. Storin, spring 2002 fellow, considers whether American news outlets utterly failed to prepare the public for the trauma of 9/11, or raised at least some flags of caution. The research spans an eight-and-a-half-year period from the bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, through the coverage of

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Covering September 11 and Its Consequences: A Comparative Study of the Press in America, India and Pakistan

International Affairs, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications, War, Defense & Security / By Nilagia McCoy

A paper by Ramindar Singh, fall 2001 fellow, analyzes how the press in the U.S. responded to the need to understand and report on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and how the press in India and Pakistan handled similar challenges in their region. 9/11 affected Americans in a most fundamental way; it forced

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A Hierarchy of Innocence: The Media’s Use of Children in the Telling of International News

International Affairs, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications / By Nilagia McCoy

A paper by Susan D. Moeller, spring 2000 fellow, examines the media’s use of imagery of children in news stories about conflict. Moeller argues that the shift in warfare and in geopolitics since the Cold War has made it difficult for Americans to identify the “good guys” and the “bad guys” in international affairs. Without

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