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IJAMBO: “Speaking Truth” Amidst Genocide
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998-07)In the fall of 1997, Alexis was invited to Harvard as a Shorenstein Fellow, to reflect on his experience and its implications for the scores of other conflict-ridden regions of the world, where local journalism is ultimately ... -
Israel in The New York Times Over the Decades: A Changed Narrative and Its Impact on Jewish Readers
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2012-02)During the winter of 1974, Seymour Topping, the assistant managing editor of The New York Times, and his wife, Audrey, visited Jordan as part of a tour of the Middle East. On their stops in Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia ... -
The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media As A Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2007-02)Based on content analysis of global media and interviews with many diplomats and journalists, this paper describes the trajectory of the media from objective observer to fiery advocate, becoming in fact a weapon of modern ... -
Journalism and Economics: The Tangled Webs of Profession, Narrative, and Responsibility in a Modern Democracy
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1997)What can be done to improve this situation? The answer is clearly important if economics is to contribute to better public policy. It is surely a necessary condition for effective reporting that journalists become more ... -
Journalism and Global Health
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)Looking to see how much coverage global health issues have received across American newspapers, we carried out a survey of news coverage in eight newspapers published over the past several decades. We also conducted two ... -
Journalism without Journalists: Vision or Caricature?
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2007)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 ... -
Journalism, Value Creation and the Future of News Organizations
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2006)News organizations in the United States are struggling to respond to technical and social changes that are disrupting the business models that proved successful in the twentieth century. The primary driver of change is ... -
Junk News: Can Public Broadcasters Buck the Tabloid Tendencies of Market-Driven Journalism? A Canadian Experience
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1997)In public policy terms, Canadian political elites have long considered constitutional reform a pre-condition for the continued existence of the Canadian federation. Yet for political journalists, the clause-by-clause ... -
Leading the Way to Better News: The Role of Leadership in a World Where Most of the “Powers That Be” Became the “Powers That Were”
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)During the past several years, as traditional news operations have faced sharp declines in circulation, advertising, viewership, and audiences, and as they have begun to make a seemingly unrelenting series of cuts in the ... -
A Letter to Journalists from a Former FCC Commissioner
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2014)Dear Journalist: You may wonder why a long-time regulator like me is writing to you. The answer is that for more than a decade I occupied a front-row seat watching government policy undermine your profession and our ... -
"Lies in Ink, Truth in Blood": The Role and Impact of the Chinese Media During the Beijing Spring of ‘89
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1990-08)On May l8th, 1989,Chinese television viewers witnessed a scene that no one could have imagined seeing on state-run television one month earlier. The news broadcast showed the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Zhao ... -
Lost in the Travel Pages: The Global Industry Hiding Inside the Sunday Newspaper
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)To most Americans travel means a journey of discovery, a well-deserved family vacation, an escape from the daily dullness of life, an outdoor adventure, or a plan for retirement. In other words, travel is an innocent or ... -
Mainstream Newspaper Coverage: A Barometer of Government Tolerance for Anti‐Regime Expression in Authoritarian Brazil
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2007-10)This paper evaluates the theory that in authoritarian regimes leaders of civil society follow the mainstream press not so much for the specific information it provides, but rather as a barometer for the government’s tolerance ... -
Mapping the New World: Lessons from the Obama Campaigns
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2013-09)Where we are and how we are connected to others are fundamental to our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. From the earliest days of exploration, cartography was essential not only as a tool for navigation ... -
Measuring Media Diversity: Problems and Prospects
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2005)The paper consists of three sections. In the first, I address the meaning of media diversity and the complications that conceptualizing media diversity pose for developing a non-contestable (if such is possible) measurement ... -
The Media and Markets: How Systematic Misreporting Inflates Bubbles, Deepens Downturns and Distorts Economic Reality
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2014)Just as a vibrant press plays a crucial role in a healthy democracy, the media also have an indispensable watchdog role in business and economic affairs. At their best, journalists make sense of complex economic issues, ... -
Media Coverage of Corporate Social Responsibility
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2003)Efforts to encourage corporate social responsibility generate kudos, controversy, and media coverage. This paper offers a brief analysis of how journalists use the term to describe the impacts of firm behavior on the ... -
The Media in Europe After 1992: A Case Study of La Repubblica
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1991-09)At the end of July 1990, the Italian media world was rocked by a case of censorship. The Rizzoli publishing company, one of the biggest in the country, suddenly announced it had cancelled plans to publish L'Intrigo (The ... -
The Media, The Public, and the Development of Candidates' Images in the 1992 Presidential Election
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1994-10)The presidential election of 1992 was called "surprising," "crazy," "unpredictable" by many journalists, analysts and some scholars. President Bush called it "a ·weird year." In the preface to The Election of 1992, Gerald ... -
Modern Citizenship or Policy Dead End? Evaluating the need for public participation in science policy making, and why public meetings may not be the answer
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-01)A paper by Dietram A. Scheufele, fall 2010 fellow, analyzes the recent renaissance that consensus conferences and public meetings have experienced regarding the discussion of controversial emerging technologies. First, it ...