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Death in Wartime: Photographs and the “Other War” in Afghanistan
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2005)This paper addresses the formulaic dependence of the news media on images of people facing impending death. Considering one example of this depiction - U.S. journalism's photographic coverage of the killing of the Taliban ... -
The Decline, But Not Yet Total Fall, of Foreign News in the U.S. Media
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)In my darker moments I feel like a virtual dinosaur. In fact I am a print foreign correspondent with 40 years of wars, rebellions, uprisings, crises, epidemics, disasters man-made and natural as well as bad whisky under ... -
Dialectical Spaces in the Global Public Sphere: Media Memories across Generations
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2003)A decade ago, CNN and MTV emerged as new types of 'global' players, initiating and supporting a new global transnational community of 'news junkies' and music cultures from New York, to Tokyo, to Buenos Aires and Los ... -
Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus? Searching for a better way to cover a campaign
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2013-09)This paper will examine the merits of being a reporter “on the bus” during a presidential campaign, at a time when Twitter and other web-driven developments in the media have broken down walls between the political press ... -
Different Stories: How the newspapers in the United States, Britain and South Asia covered the Iraq War
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2004)In many ways, war presents the biggest challenge to the values and the professional practices of the press. Despite the growing internationalism and readership over the Internet, most newspapers are rooted firmly in a ... -
Different Strokes: Public Broadcasting in America and Australia
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1991-07)Glyn Davis, Commissioner for Public Sector Equity in the newly created Public Sector Management Commission of Queensland, Australia, has taken a close look at what he calls the "chaos" of America's public broadcasting ... -
Digital Divas: Women, Politics and the Social Network
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-06)In the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama emerged as the champion of new media by using social networking tools in innovative ways to turn on and turn out young voters. Since then, some of most visible and creative ... -
Digital Fuel of the 21st Century: Innovation through Open Data and the Network Effect
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2012-01)The history of civilization has seen continuous evolutionary progress, occasionally culminating in changes that are revolutionary. In the broadest classification, three such revolutions are apparent, each one building upon ... -
Diminishing Returns: A Comparison of the 1968 and 2000 Election Night Broadcasts
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2003-12)Shortly before 8 p.m., the television networks projected Al Gore as the winner of the Florida vote.Two hours later, they retracted the call. Then, just after 2 a.m., the networks claimed George W. Bush had won in Florida ... -
Disengaged: Elite Media in a Vernacular Nation
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-06)Journalists, by and large, regard the “crisis” as something that happened to them, and not anything they did. It was the Internet that jumbled the informational sensitivities of their readers, corporate ownership that ... -
Dispatches From an Unfinished Uprising: The Role of Technology in the 2009 Iranian Protest Movement
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2012-08)On June 13, 2009, Iran plunged into six months of chaos, after official results granted a second term to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The majority of people believed that he rigged the elections amidst a strong anti-incumbent ... -
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
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)Soft news and critical journalism, whatever their initial effect, may now be hastening the decline in news audiences. Evidence also suggests that soft news and critical journalism are weakening the foundation of democracy ... -
An Economic Theory of Learning From News
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1992)In one of the early applications of economic theory to politics, Anthony Downs proposed that voters behaved rationally and based their voting decisions on self-interest.1 If Party A was likely to give them more of what ... -
The Enemy Within: The Effect of “Private Censorship” on Press Freedom and How to Confront It—An Israeli Perspective
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998)As Moshe Negbi explains, sometimes censorship can take strange twists. He relates how the Israeli media in 1985 collectively decided to self-censor a Cabinet decision to release 1,150 terrorists in exchange for the return ... -
Everyone Lies: The Ukraine Conflict and Russia’s Media Transformation
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2014-07)All sides are using propaganda: Ukraine, Russia, the United States and other Western countries. But, for Moscow, the conflict in Ukraine is accelerating profound changes already under way in the Russian media: the ... -
Exit Polls: Better or Worse Since the 2000 Election?
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)There have been so many problems with exit polls in the last four national elections that news organizations approach 2008 election night coverage without a great deal of confidence in what those polls will show. The six ... -
Expanding the Public's Right to Know: Access to Settlement Records under the First Amendment
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1990-12)By arguing in lawsuits for a First Amendment right to observe trials and inspect judicial records, the press has pushed the courts to fashion a body of law governing access to what Alexander Hamilton called the "least ... -
Exploring the Transatlantic Media Divide over Iraq: How and Why U.S and German Media Differed in Reporting on U.N. Weapons Inspections in Iraq: 2002-2003
The post-Cold War era has seen many and serious disagreements among the Western allies, particularly between the United States and Western European countries. These countries had, for more than a half-century, formed a ... -
Fanning the Flames: The News Media’s Role in the Rise of Negativity in Presidential Campaigns
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2010-02)The rise of negativity in presidential campaigns is well documented.1 Few doubt that attacks ads are more common in campaigns today than just 25 years ago. The typical assumption is that this negativity is a product of ... -
Foreign News Coverage: The U.S. Media's Undervalued Asset
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 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 and missing an opportunity to capitalize on an undervalued ...