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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 ... -
The Foreign News Flow in the Information Age
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
The Global News Networks and U.S. Policymaking In Defense and Foreign Affairs
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2002)This study investigates the effects of global television news on the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. While it found no evidence to support the “CNN effect,” a theory that claims global television now ... -
Gone Rogue: Time to Reform the Presidential Primary Debates
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2012-01)How would the course of history been altered had P.T. Barnum moderated the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858? Today’s ultimate showman and on-again, off-again presidential candidate Donald Trump invited the Republican ... -
Great sound makes no noise -- Creeping Freedoms in Chinese Press
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)In contrast to recent Western criticism of China's tightened social control and the crack-down on dissent, a liberalizing tendency has rippled in the most dangerous water in China: the press. The birth and growth of a freer ... -
The Growing Importance of Nonprofit Journalism
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2007)A paper by Charles Lewis, spring 2006 fellow, argues that despite the growing audience for non-profit news outlets such as NPR, there are few such organizations that have a sustained commitment to investigative reporting. ... -
Hamlet’s Blackberry: Why Paper Is Eternal
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2007)The condition of American journalism in the first decade of the twenty-first century can be expressed in a single unhappy word: crisis. Whether it’s a plagiarism scandal at a leading newspaper, the fall from grace of a ... -
Hispanic Voices: Is the Press Listening?
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1995-01)Jorge Quiroga, an investigative reporter for WCVB-TV in Boston, has spent most of his more than twenty years in journalism as a "beat" and investigative reporter. Little if any of his professional background has been devoted ...