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    • An Economic Theory of Learning From News 

      Just, Marion R.; Neuman, W. Russell; Crigler, Ann (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 

      Negbi, Moshe (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 

      Dougherty, Jill (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? 

      Sproul, Robin (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 

      Watkins, John J. (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 

      Lehmann, Ingrid A.
      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 

      Geer, John G. (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 

      Carroll, Jill (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 ...

    • The Foreign News Flow in the Information Age 

      Moisy, Claude (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1996-11)
      Moisy is undoubtedly correct in predicting The Foreign News Flow in the Information Age that news will increasingly be aimed at and consumed by an elite. This is a reflection of a wider change in this once-egalitarian ...

    • The Form of Reports on U.S. Newspaper Internet Sites 

      Barnhurst, Kevin G. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2002)
      U.S. newspapers that publish electronic editions on the Internet do not appear to reinvent themselves on line. Instead the Web versions reproduce the substance of their print editions in a way that relates similarly to ...

    • Framing Identity: The Press in Crown Heights 

      Conaway, Carol B. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1996-11)
      How did the press frame the antagonists and the conflict that occurred in Crown Heights during and after the disturbances? What themes and story lines were used to organize the facts in news reports? How were both the ...

    • Framing Obesity: The Evolution of News Discourse on a Public Health Issue 

      Lawrence, Regina G. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2004)
      The public debate on obesity will turn on the question of who or what is responsible for causing and curing this emerging epidemic. Previous research suggests that public health problems become amenable to broad policy ...

    • Frenemies: Network News and YouTube 

      Kelley, Loen (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2010-02)
      Ever since Google’s web spiders began crawling the Internet, people who care about the news have been trying to figure out how to save journalism. Most of the focus has been on the newspaper industry, but the broadcast ...

    • From Bhopal to Superfund: The News Media and the Environment 

      Hazarika, Sanjoy (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1994)
      Sanjoy Hazarika was among the first reporters to reach Bhopal within hours after tragedy first struck, and he has pursued the story that has grown out of it with the persistence that distinguishes all great reporters. As ...

    • From Natural Disaster and Social Crisis to Great Success of the Olympic Games: Transparent Governance and Foreign Correspondents in China in 2008 

      Dong, Steven Guanpeng (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-01)
      A paper by Steven Guanpeng Dong, spring 2010 fellow, takes an in‐depth look at the media policy that altered events that happened in China in 2008 and the impact these events had on the Chinese government and the Chinese ...

    • From VietNet to VietNamNet: Ten Years of Electronic Media in Vietnam 

      Tuấn, Nguyễn Anh (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)
      VietNamNet is Vietnam’s most popular online media outlet. Everyday, four million viewers visit the site, generating 100 million page views. VietNamNet’s readership is diverse, including Vietnam’s political and intellectual ...

    • The Future of Global Television News 

      Parker, Richard (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1994-09)
      Television has, in the past forty years, trans-formed the ways we think about the news. The medium’s immediacy (especially when “live”), the unique way it lets us “see” events ten blocks—or ten thousand miles—away, and its ...

    • A Generally Bellicose Society’s Antisocial Media: Reporting Murder & Debating God in a Nation at War 

      Khan, Wajahat S. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-11)
      A paper by Wajahat S. Khan, spring 2011 fellow, examines the media coverage following the assassination of Pakistani politician Salmaan Taseer, from international journalists, oped writers, bloggers, social networkers, the ...

    • Getting It for Free: When Foundations Provide the News on Health 

      Schwartz, Maralee (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2009-06)
      Washington Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli was asked at a meeting early this year with reporters why The Post had used two stories from something called Kaiser Health News. Up until a few months before, the paper ...

    • Getting the Story in China: American Reporters Since 1972 

      Mirsky, Jonathan (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)
      During China's Communist years, especially from 1980 to the present, American reporters who believe in their right to seek information, have operated within a system which suspects and hinders their work. Beijing's view ...