Browsing HKS Shorenstein Center by Title
Now showing items 149-168 of 175
-
Talking Politics on the Net
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Through the Revolving Door: Blurring the Line Between the Press and Government
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1991-06)The study finds growing apprehension among some press corps members that hard-won advances in reporting and press independence can be eroded by line-crossing and other flirtations with the establishment. Jim Lehrer of the ... -
Transmitting Race: The Los Angeles Riot in Television News
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1994-05)The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, popularly known as the Kerner Commission, was appointed by the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson to find out what caused a series of urban riots in the summer of 1967 ... -
Tritium and the Times: How the Nuclear Weapons-Production Scandal Became a National Story
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1990-05)For more than a decade, pieces of a nationwide scandal had surfaced from the vast and sprawling system that produces America's nuclear weapons; as health, safety, and environmental stories at the 17 facilities in 12 states. ... -
Turmoil at Tiananmen: A Study Of U.S. Press Coverage of the Beijing Spring of 1989
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1992-06)The Americans who covered the Beijing spring of 1989 reported a great story. They functioned not as historians, or as the pamphleteers of any political movement, but rather as professional journalists. They covered the ... -
TV Violence, Children, and the Press: Eight Rationales Inhibiting Public Policy Debates
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1994-04)Into this problem comes Sissela Bok, applying the talents of the professional philosopher and the insights of the social critic to analyze current public policy debates in the press about television {itself a branch of the ... -
Two Commanders in Chief: Free Expression's Most Severe Tests
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1992)War puts the constitutional guarantee of free expression to its most severe test. For a president, war heightens immeasurably the classic First Amendment conflict between confidentiality and openness in a democracy. War ... -
U.S. Government Secrecy and the Current Crackdown on Leaks
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2003)In the never-ending sparring match between the government and the news media, no subject produces more friction than the practice of leaking classified information. Government officials—at least those who don’t leak—denounce ... -
Up Against a Saint and a Dead Man
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2009-06)I scrambled to answer my cell phone as I pulled out of the rental car space at the Los Angeles airport. “Jim, this is Leo Wolinsky. You need to make your first command decision. How do you want your name on the masthead?” I ... -
A Voyage Never Ended
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)I am an African journalist, born in Burundi 32 years ago. I grew up there, in Bujumbura, the nation's capital, where I also went to university to learn my profession. Located in Central Africa's Great Lakes region, Burundi ... -
The War on Terrorism Goes Online: Media and Government Response to First Post-Internet Crisis
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2002)For the first time, all the headline-making events that have happened since the terrible Tuesday in September on which the United States was successfully attacked by foreign terrorists have occurred during the Internet ... -
What's Black and White and Retweeted All Over? Teaching news literacy in the digital age
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2012-02)The problem of an ill-informed American citizenry is not new; Marshall McLuhan and Newton Minow were lamenting the mass media’s tendency to distort and distract 50 years ago, back when the Internet’s creative disruption ... -
When Policy Fails: How the Buck Was Passed When Kuwait Was Invaded
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1992)Bernard Roshco is a journalist, a scholar, a former government official and once a fellow at the Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. He came here in January, 1992, his mind filled with ... -
While America Slept: Coverage of Terrorism from 1993 to September 11, 2001
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2002)So far as is known, the traumatic attacks of September 11, 2001, were not foreseen by U.S. intelligence services, and they certainly were not predicted in the media. Yes, some government commissions warned of terrorist ... -
Whispers and Screams: The Partisan Nature of Editorial Pages
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2003-07)This study of the partisan intensity of the nation's agenda-setting liberal and conservative editorial pages finds that while the pages are more or less equally partisan when it comes to supporting or opposing a given ... -
Whither the Civic Journalism Bandwagon?
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1999-02)Grimes’s examination not only gives us a compelling history of the rise of civic journalism that raises many questions about both its aims and its successes. It is indispensable for setting standards by which the civic ... -
Who Gets a Press Pass? Media Credentialing Practices in the United States
(Digital Media Law Project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Journalist’s Resource Project at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2014-06)A new report from the Digital Media Law Project and Journalist’s Resource explores media credentialing practices in the United States through a nationwide survey of more than 1,300 newsgatherers.