From VietNet to VietNam Net: Ten Years of Electronic Media in Vietnam

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 news publications. Although private news outlets are not yet legal—all newspapers are controlled by state organizations—the Vietnamese press has become increasingly vibrant and politically influential. VietNamNet has been reporting […]

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The Road to Wikipolitics: Life and Death of the Modern Presidential Primary, b. 1968 – d. 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 and, lately, Nevada and South Carolina, is in decline. Fiedler argues that this change also coincides with the loss of control that political parties have experienced in recent elections, and the

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Character and the Primaries of 2008: What Were the Media Master Narratives about the Candidates During the Primary Season?

A report by the Shorenstein Center and the Project for Excellence in Journalism analyzes positive and negative press coverage of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain. The study first examines the dominant personal narratives about the candidates in the media during the heat of the primary season. The most prominent negative theme

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Women and News: Expanding the News Audience, Increasing Political Participation, and Informing Citizens

November 30, 2007 – “Women and News: Expanding the News Audience, Increasing Political Participation, and Informing Citizens.” Panelists, speakers and moderators include: Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe; Susan Carroll, Rutgers University; Pippa Norris, Harvard University; Kay Schlozman, Boston College; Sidney Verba, Harvard University; Thomas Patterson, Harvard University; Rick Kaplan, CBS News; Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center for

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Journalism without Journalists: Vision or Caricature?

A paper by Michael Maier, spring 2007 fellow, examines various forms of citizen journalism taking place at traditional media outlets. The paper includes projects by The Los Angeles Times in 2005; a model developed by Bill Kovach, the former Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, that was tested in the newsrooms of the

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Women and News: Expanding the News Audience, Increasing Political Participation, and Informing Citizens

This Shorenstein Center report includes transcripts from a conference sponsored by the Shorenstein Center, featuring keynote speeches from Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post and Ellen Goodman, author and journalist, as well as research on women’s engagement with political news by Shauna Shames of Rutgers University and Marion Just of Wellesley College. Download the

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“The Invisible Primary”: Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics

October 26, 2007 – “The Invisible Primary”: Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics. A panel discussion with Charles E. Cook, Jr., publisher, The Cook Political Report; Tom Fiedler, Shorenstein Fellow, former editor-in-chief, the Miami Herald; Mark Halperin, editor at large and senior political analyst, Time magazine; political analyst, ABC News; Steve Jarding, lecturer in public policy, Kennedy

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