Papers

Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Press Freedom, Publications,
From VietNet to VietNam Net: Ten Years of Electronic Media in Vietnam
January 1, 2008
A paper by Nguyễn Anh Tuấn, fall 2007 fellow, tells the story VietNamNet, Vietnam’s most popular online media outlet and one of the country’s most respected...
Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Papers, Politics & Government, Publications,
The Road to Wikipolitics: Life and Death of the Modern Presidential Primary, b. 1968 – d. 2008
January 1, 2008
A paper by Tom Fiedler, fall 2007 fellow, considers whether the structure of the presidential primary – which includes special treatment of Iowa, New Hampshire...
Journalistic Practice, Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
Journalism without Journalists: Vision or Caricature?
November 1, 2007
A paper by Michael Maier, spring 2007 fellow, examines various forms of citizen journalism taking place at traditional media outlets. The paper includes...
International Affairs, News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Press Freedom, Publications,
Mainstream Newspaper Coverage: A Barometer of Government Tolerance for Anti-Regime Expression in Authoritarian Brazil
October 1, 2007
A paper by Elizabeth A. Stein, spring 2007 fellow, evaluates the theory that in authoritarian regimes, leaders of civil society follow the mainstream press...
Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
The Growing Importance of Nonprofit Journalism
April 1, 2007
A paper by Charles Lewis, spring 2006 fellow, argues that despite the growing audience for non-profit news outlets such as NPR, there are few such organizations...
News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Press Freedom, Publications, War, Defense & Security,
Secrets about Secrets: The Backstage Conversations between Press and Government
March 1, 2007
A paper by Allan M. Siegal, fall 2006 fellow, argues that while mainstream journalists almost uniformly advocate self-restraint on sensitive intelligence...
International Affairs, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications,
Foreign News Coverage: The U.S. Media’s Undervalued Asset
March 1, 2007
A paper by Jill Carroll, fall 2006 fellow, argues that media companies that cut back on foreign bureaus and correspondents are making a financial miscalculation...
International Affairs, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications, War, Defense & Security,
The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict
February 1, 2007
A paper by Marvin Kalb, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice Emeritus, follows the trajectory of the media from objective observer to fiery advocate...
Journalistic Practice, Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
What Will Become of Newspapers?
April 26, 2006
A speech delivered by John S. Carroll, Knight Visiting Lecturer 2005-2006 (deceased), at the 2006 meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors...
Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications, War, Defense & Security,
Army Manpower and the War on Terror
January 1, 2006
A paper by Kevin Ryan, fall 2005 fellow, argues that Army manpower is a subject that is often misunderstood and misreported. How does the status of Army...
Environment, Health & Science, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications,
Covering Controversial Science: Improving Reporting on Science and Public Policy
January 1, 2006
A paper by Cristine Russell, spring 2006 fellow, surveys the state of science journalism, and finds that as the pace of new developments in science and...
Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
Hamlet’s Blackberry: Why Paper Is Eternal
January 1, 2006
A paper by William Powers, fall 2006 fellow, makes the case that although print publications and paper are falling out of favor with the rise of digital...
Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
Journalism, Value Creation and the Future of News Organizations
January 1, 2006
A paper by Robert G. Picard, spring 2006 fellow, considers why news organizations have difficulty creating value. Picard argues that journalism and the...
Domestic Affairs, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications, Race & Gender,
Covering Crime in Washington, D.C.
January 1, 2006
A paper by Kimberly Gross, spring 2006 fellow, examines the nature of local television news coverage of crime and its effects on emotional response. Gross...
International Affairs, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications,
Soft Power and Hard Views: How American Commentators are Spreading over the World’s Opinion Pages
January 1, 2006
A paper by Julia Baird, spring 2005 fellow, examines the export of American thought by documenting the presence of American columnists on newspaper opinion...
Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Citizen Action & Interest Groups, International Affairs, News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Politics & Government, Press Freedom, Publications,
The Role of Georgia’s Media — and Western Aid — in the Rose Revolution
January 1, 2006
A paper by David Anable, fall 2005 fellow, examines the role of the Georgian media in the country’s Rose Revolution and the impact that Western media development...
Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
News Consumption and the New Electronic Media
January 1, 2006
A paper by Douglas Ahlers, spring 2005 fellow, looks at the hypothesized shift of news consumption from the traditional media to the online news media....
International Affairs, Journalistic Practice, News Business & Practice, Papers, Policy & Issues, Publications, War, Defense & Security,
Death in Wartime: Photographs and the “Other War” in Afghanistan
January 1, 2005
A paper by Barbie Zelizer, spring 2004 fellow, addresses the formulaic dependence of the news media on images of people facing impending death. Considering...
Media Business, News Business & Practice, Papers, Publications,
Measuring Media Diversity: Problems and Prospects
January 1, 2005
A paper by Richard Schultz, spring 2005 fellow, analyzes the debate surrounding the FCC’s Diversity Index and explores the question of how to best measure...
Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Papers, Politics & Government, Publications,
The Reporters
January 1, 2005
Alex Sanders, fall 2004 fellow, writes about his run for the Senate, as a Democratic nominee from South Carolina to succeed J. Strom Thurmond, and recounts...
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