Journalistic Practice Publications

Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Politics & Government, Publications,
Whispers and Screams: The Partisan Nature of Editorial Pages
January 1, 2003
A paper by Michael Tomasky, spring 2003 fellow, examines the partisan intensity of the nation’s agenda-setting liberal and conservative editorial...
International Affairs, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications,
Dialectical Spaces in the Global Public Sphere: Media Memories across Generations.
January 1, 2003
Ingrid Volkmer, spring 2002 fellow, argues that the spread of international news channels has created “imagined communities,” which affect political alliances,...
International Affairs, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications,
A Hierarchy of Innocence: The Media’s Use of Children in the Telling of International News
January 1, 2002
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...
Domestic Affairs, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications,
Age in the Press
January 1, 2002
A paper by Hans Bergstrom, spring 2001 fellow, asks whether, in the face of an aging population, the print media is taking due notice? An aging society,...
Journalistic Practice, Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
The Content of Reports on U.S. Newspaper Internet Sites
January 1, 2002
A paper by Kevin G. Barnhurst, fall 2001 fellow, argues that moving newspaper content onto the Internet has not, in itself, changed what journalists write....
Journalistic Practice, Media Business, News Business & Practice, Publications,
Doing Well and Doing Good: How Soft News and Critical Journalism Are Shrinking the News Audience and Weakening Democracy – and What News Outlets Can Do About It
January 1, 2000
This report by Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at the Shorenstein Center, asks if the news media do well and also do good?...
Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Politics & Government, Publications,
Our President/Their Scandal: The Role of the British Press in Keeping the Clinton Scandals Alive
January 1, 2000
A paper by Michael Goldfarb, spring 1999 fellow, explores the differences in coverage of the Clinton administration between the American and British press....
Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
Pragmatic News Objectivity: Objectivity with a Human Face
January 1, 1999
A paper by Stephen Ward, spring 1998 fellow, considers the journalistic value of objectivity from a philosophical perspective. The concept of objectivity...
Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
Whither the Civic Journalism Bandwagon?
January 1, 1999
A paper by Charlotte Grimes, spring 1998 fellow, asks whether citizen journalism is living up to its promises. Grimes provides a history of the rise of...
Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Politics & Government, Publications,
The Rise of the New News: A Case Study of Two Root Causes of the Modern Scandal Coverage
January 1, 1998
A paper by Marvin Kalb, former Shorenstein Center director and veteran reporter, analyzes the press coverage in the first few weeks of the Monica Lewinsky...