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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. -
Who Were the Saigon Correspondents and Does It Matter?
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)Who were the Saigon correspondents? Until now, everyone has had their own opinion, and much has depended upon each individual’s view of the Vietnam War. The former U.S. commander in South Vietnam and the subject of much ... -
Window to the West: How Television from the Federal Republic Influenced Events in East Germany
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1990-07)Only a short time after a member of the East German Politburo (SED) had announced dramatic changes in travel regulations and after West German television had interpreted them on the evening news, East Berliners began to ... -
The Wisdom of the War Room: U.S. Campaigning and Americanization
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1997-04)One might anticipate, therefore, that the more professional campaigning is, the more it will be possible to demonstrate clear lines from general theoretical principles to practice. Further, the more professional U.S. ... -
“. . . without uncertainty, compromise and fear,” or Should the New York Times Rule Be Introduced in Hungary?
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)This article compares the 1994 CLC decision regarding defamation suits against public officials and public figures, with the New York Times rule5 as well as the practice of the European Court of Human Rights (“Eur. Ct. ... -
Word of Mouse: Credibility, Journalism and Emerging Social Media
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2009-02)On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced that he had chosen Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, as his running mate. The surprising choice of the little‐known Palin captured the nation’s ... -
The World-Wide Conversation: Online participatory media and international news
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2004)This is not a paper about what is wrong with American journalism. Nor is it an analysis of the shortcomings of the American media’s international news reporting. The American public’s growing distrust of news media is ... -
Would You Ask Turkeys To Mandate Thanksgiving?
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)PAPER #1: The Dismal Politics of Legislative Transparency The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prevents legislators from infringing on the freedom of the press. But, of necessity, legislators have been granted ...