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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 ... -
How Much Would You Pay to Save the Planet? The American Press and the Economics of Climate Change
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2009-01)Suppose our leading scientists discovered that a meteor, hurtling toward the earth, was set to strike later this century; the governments of the world had less than ten years to divert or destroy it. How would news ... -
How Voters Construct Images of Political Candidates: The Role of Political Advertising and Televised News
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1994)The voting literature has belittled the impact of campaigns on electoral outcomes, focusing instead on the greater contribution of partisan alignment [Lazarsfeld, Berelson and Gaudet, 1948] and retrospective judgments of ... -
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 ...