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    • The Sanctions Against Russia: What Did the West and the Media Expect? 

      Bohlen, Celestine (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2015-01)
      Certainly, the decision to sanction Putin’s “cronies” grabbed headlines both in the West and in Russia – even though the most effective, and innovative, aspect of the Russian regime sanctions has to do with “micro-targeting,” ...

    • School for Scandal 

      Bok, Sissela (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1990-04)
      The concept of a "School for Scandal" in the context of today's politics raises intriguing questions. What kinds of teaching and what kinds of learning might be at issue? Who are the instructors when it comes to scandal? ...

    • Secrets about Secrets: The Backstage Conversations between Press and Government 

      Siegal, Allan M. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2007)
      This paper will examine vetting arrangements described by journalists and capsule case histories of both agreement and refusal to withhold information. The examples, nearly all from the post-9/11 period, demonstrate that ...

    • Setting the Agenda: The New York Times’ Jayson Blair Report and its Impact on American Media 

      Mnookin, Seth (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2005)
      A paper by Seth Mnookin, spring 2004 fellow, examines the making and results of The New York Times’ Jayson Blair Report. The report helped demonstrate The New York Times’ power to shape the national news agenda, argues ...

    • Shadowboxing with Stereotypes: The Press, the Public, and the Candidates' Wives 

      Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1993-07)
      The election year 1992 was widely touted as the "Year of the Woman." Certainly it was a year in which the attitudes of and toward women played an important role, and a year in which candidates' spouses were both the objects ...

    • Shoah in the News: Patterns and Meanings of News Coverage of the Holocaust 

      Carroll, James (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1997-10)
      James Carroll, for whom “why?” is a frequent question and “ethics” a compelling concern, spent his springtime ’97 fellowship at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard researching and ...

    • Should American Journalism Make Us Americans? 

      Sleeper, Jim (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1999-09)
      One such innovation is illustrated in the recent history of the Miami Herald and its parent company, Knight-Ridder. They have reshaped the paper to reach millions of residents of the city for whom the language, the political ...

    • Soft Power and Hard Views: How American Commentators are Spreading over the World’s Opinion Pages 

      Baird, Julia (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2006)
      In 1981, British realist and writer E. H. Carr defined international power as being divided into three categories: military, economic and power over opinion. The last of these is notoriously difficult to measure, and to ...

    • Sound Bite Democracy: Network Evening News Presidential Campaign Coverage, 1968 and 1988 

      Adatto, Kiku (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1990-06)
      To be sure, image-conscious coverage was not the only kind of political reporting to appear on network newscasts in 1988. Some notable "fact correction" pieces, especially following the presidential debates, offered admirable ...

    • Speechwriting, Speechmaking, and the Press: The Kennedy Administration and the Bay of Pigs 

      Benson, Thomas W. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)
      This paper is about the construction of presidential leadership through public rhetoric; about the authorship of that rhetoric; and about the mediation of that rhetoric through the press. As our master example, we take the ...

    • The Spokesperson—In the Crossfire: A Decade of Israeli Defense Crises from an Official Spokesperson’s Perspective 

      Shai, Nachman (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998)
      In “The Spokesperson—In the Crossfire,” Nachman Shai builds a strong case for the proposition that “truth” rather than “spin” is the basis of effective public information efforts, even in that most trying of situations—a ...

    • Spreading the Word: The KGB's Image-Building Under Gorbachev 

      Trimble, Jeff (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1997-02)
      It is this story that Jeff Trimble, assistant managing editor of U.S. News & World Report, tells so well in this paper. Trimble lived and worked in Russia during much of this time of essentially bloodless transformation. ...

    • State into Public: The Failed Reform of State TV in East Central Europe 

      Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)
      The exceptional history of Eastern Europe in the past ten years lead to the concentration in a small period of time of a history that would have normally taken many years. The fate of public television is illustrative in ...

    • Stories of Climate Change: Competing Narratives, the Media, and U.S. Public Opinion 2001-2010 

      Mayer, Frederick W. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2012-02)
      A decade that began with optimism for those advocating action to combat climate change ended in 2010 with dashed hopes. Momentum slowly grew in the first half of the decade. By 2007 there was a strong consensus among ...

    • Strategic Public Relations, Sweatshops, and the Making of a Global Movement 

      Bullert, B.J. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)
      This paper has two objectives. First, it tracks the role of these public relations professionals in the shaping and defining of the sweatshop awareness movement, and second, it examines the campaign against Nike as a window ...

    • A Symbiotic Relationship Between Journalists and Bloggers 

      Davis, Richard (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)
      On March 22, 2007, John Edwards’ presidential campaign announced that the candidate and his wife would hold an important press conference that afternoon. Shortly before the press conference, CNN, Fox News, and other cable ...

    • Talking Politics on the Net 

      Bentivegna, Sara (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998-08)
      The aim of this paper is to examine the concept of public sphere within computer mediated communication. The particular focus is on communication produced by citizens who take part in news groups of a political nature. ...

    • Talking Tough: Gender and Reported Speech in Campaign News Coverage 

      Gidengil, Elisabeth (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)
      Reported speech represents an important means of analyzing how party leaders’ messages are mediated by the masculine norms of political reporting. Building on the notion of “gendered mediation”, we argue that conventional ...

    • Tensions of a Free Press: South Africa After Apartheid 

      Jacobs, Sean (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1999-06)
      A vigorous debate has developed over what should be the role of journalists within the new post-apartheid political context. Questions are raised about the media and the “national interest” as well as the impact of racial ...

    • They Wanted Journalists to Say ‘Wow’: How NGOs Affect U.S. Media Coverage of Africa 

      Rothmyer, Karen (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-01)
      And now for some good news out of Africa. Since 1995, the rate of poverty throughout the continent has been falling steadily, and much faster than previously thought, according to a study released in February 2010 by the ...