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    • Different Strokes: Public Broadcasting in America and Australia 

      Davis, Glyn (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1991-07)
      Glyn Davis, Commissioner for Public Sector Equity in the newly created Public Sector Management Commission of Queensland, Australia, has taken a close look at what he calls the "chaos" of America's public broadcasting ...

    • Digital Divas: Women, Politics and the Social Network 

      Gelber, Alexis (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-06)
      In the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama emerged as the champion of new media by using social networking tools in innovative ways to turn on and turn out young voters. Since then, some of most visible and creative ...

    • Digital Fuel of the 21st Century: Innovation through Open Data and the Network Effect 

      Kundra, Vivek (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2012-01)
      The history of civilization has seen continuous evolutionary progress, occasionally culminating in changes that are revolutionary. In the broadest classification, three such revolutions are apparent, each one building upon ...

    • Diminishing Returns: A Comparison of the 1968 and 2000 Election Night Broadcasts 

      Patterson, Thomas E. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2003-12)
      Shortly before 8 p.m., the television networks projected Al Gore as the winner of the Florida vote.Two hours later, they retracted the call. Then, just after 2 a.m., the networks claimed George W. Bush had won in Florida ...

    • Disengaged: Elite Media in a Vernacular Nation 

      Calo, Bob (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-06)
      Journalists, by and large, regard the “crisis” as something that happened to them, and not anything they did. It was the Internet that jumbled the informational sensitivities of their readers, corporate ownership that ...

    • Dispatches From an Unfinished Uprising: The Role of Technology in the 2009 Iranian Protest Movement 

      Fathi, Nazila (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2012-08)
      On June 13, 2009, Iran plunged into six months of chaos, after official results granted a second term to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The majority of people believed that he rigged the elections amidst a strong anti-incumbent ...

    • Doing Well and Doing Good: How Soft News and Critical Journalism Are Shrinking the News Audience and Weakening Democracy–And What News Outlets Can Do About It 

      Patterson, Thomas E. (Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)
      Soft news and critical journalism, whatever their initial effect, may now be hastening the decline in news audiences. Evidence also suggests that soft news and critical journalism are weakening the foundation of democracy ...

    • 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 ...