Journalistic Practice Publications

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Setting the Agenda: The New York Times’ Jayson Blair Report and its Impact on American Media
January 1, 2005
A paper by Seth Mnookin, spring 2004 fellow, examines the making and results of The New York Times’ Jayson Blair Report. The report helped demonstrate...
Journalistic Practice, Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
The World-Wide Conversation: Online Participatory Media and International News
January 1, 2004
A paper by Rebecca MacKinnon, spring 2004 fellow, explores how – and to what extent – the Internet and new interactive forms of online media might provide...
Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Politics & Government, Publications,
Eleven Recommendations for Improving Election Night Coverage
January 1, 2004
This pamphlet by Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at the Shorenstein Center, contains ideas for strengthening election night...
Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Politics & Government, Publications,
Diminishing Returns: A Comparison of the 1968 and 2000 Election Night Broadcasts
December 1, 2003
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...
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...
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