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    • A Letter to Journalists from a Former FCC Commissioner 

      Copps, Michael (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 

      Jakobson, Linda (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 

      Becker, Elizabeth (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 

      Stein, Elizabeth A. (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 

      Slaby, Michael (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 

      Schultz, Richard (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 

      Theil, Stefan (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 

      Hamilton, James T. (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 

      Poggioli, Sylvia (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 

      Alger, Dean (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 

      Scheufele, Dietram A. (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 ...

    • Mom’s Best Advice: How Candidates Who Didn’t Run as Themselves Lost the Message War 

      Henneberger, Melinda (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2013-07)
      With the abundance of data available now, it’s easy to lose sight of the overarching reality that otherwise competitive presidential races often turn on trust. “This is the age of authenticity,” says former Bill Clinton ...

    • Mugabe’s Media War: How New Media Help Zimbabwean Journalists Tell Their Story 

      Nyaira, Sandra (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2009-02)
      It is April 1995, and I’ve just graduated from one of southern Africa’s best journalism schools, the Harare Polytechnic. It is time to put into practice what I learned over the past two years. The assignment was easy. Soon ...

    • Nature’s Prophet: Bill McKibben as Journalist, Public Intellectual and Activist 

      Nisbet, Matthew C. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2013-03)
      In a paper released by the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University, Fall 2012 fellow Matthew C. Nisbet examines writer-turned-activist Bill McKibben’s career and impact on the debate over climate change, drawing comparisons ...

    • New Europe's Civil Society, Democracy and the Media Thirteen Years After: The Story of the Czech Republic 

      Klvaňa, Tomáš P. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2004)
      A paper by Tomáš P. Klvaňa, fall 2003 fellow, argues that the Czech Republic’s democracy is underperforming, and Czech media are a significant contributor to the problem. Formerly serious Czech journalism has moved into ...

    • The Next War: Live? 

      Dunsmore, Barrie (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1996-03)
      Dunsmore is of the view that “live” reporting in war, not in peacekeeping, is so controversial, potentially so damaging to the national interest, that any administration would be driven to impose severe limitations on such ...

    • The Nigerian Press Under the Military: Persecution, Resilience and Political Crisis (1983-1993) 

      Adeyemi, Adeyinka (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1995-05)
      In The Nigerian Press Under the Military, Adeyemi has not only advanced an intriguing analytic framework political scientists and media critics can use for understanding contemporary Nigeria's fitful press evolution; he ...

    • Nine Sundays: A Proposal for Better Presidential Campaign Coverage 

      Ellis, John (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1991)
      In "Nine Sundays," the Shorenstein Barone Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy proposes that the three major networks on a rotating basis, plus CNN, c-span, Monitor and PBS, provide ninety minutes of evening or prime ...

    • The Nixon Memo 

      Kalb, Marvin (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1992-07)
      The following paper by Marvin Kalb, Director of the Shorenstein Barone Center and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, was first presented as the keynote address at the ...

    • No Seat at the Table: The Black-White Appearance Gap in the Election 2000 Story 

      Mathis, Deborah (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2001)
      Ordinarily on the day after a presidential election, network newscasts and political talk shows are a feast of reviews and retrospectives about the newly lapsed campaign --what went wrong for the losing candidate; what ...