Regina G Lawrence
Biographic Data
| ID | 292186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Regina G Lawrence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Regina G |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawrence |
| SIGNATURE | LAWRENCE R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6559-2460 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 728 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Conceptualizing Local News “Ecosystems” in the United States: An Assessment of Local News Census Research
Research on the state of local news has grown as the crisis in local news has deepened across the United States. This paper reports an analysis of 40 studies published between 2010 and early 2025 that have attempted to map, measure, and assess the health of specific geographic local news ecosystems in the US–studies we collectively label “local news census” research. We examine those studies to see how they are conceptualizing local news systems,…
Media, Communication, and Democratic Decline: Thoughts on The Paradox of Democracy
The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion, by Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing, argues that the study of democratic decline is mistakenly focused on reversal. Drawing on media ecology theory and an interpretive reading of media and politics in the Western world, the authors argue that the conditions that allowed liberal democracy to become temporarily dominant have now been disrupted and eroded by the rise of new for…
Trump Goes to Tulsa on Juneteenth: Placing the Study of Identity, Social Groups, and Power at the Center of Political Communication Research
Politics and Media in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly: A Centennial Research Retrospective
Based on computerized and manual content analyses, we examined the theories, methods, topics, and authors’ backgrounds of the empirical articles revolving around politics and media published by Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) in its 100 years ( N = 424). The most common theories are agenda-setting, framing, and selective exposure, and quantitative methods prevail with single-country studies being more prevalent than comparative a…
News Quality in the Digital Age
The Politics of Force: Media and the Construction of Police Brutality, Updated Edition
This book considers how media coverage of unexpected, dramatic events shapes public consciousness about important social and political problems. It argues that when incidents of police brutality become news, they offer one of the few real battlegrounds available for marginalized voices and activists to find a public platform and take on the powerful. Including new chapters that look more closely at race and racial justice in incidents of police f…
Disseminator, Watchdog and Neighbor: Positioning Local Journalism in the 2018 #FreePress Editorials Campaign
On August 15, 2018, hundreds of newspapers around the United States published editorials defending journalism against attacks by President Trump. This study examines how these editorials rhetorically represented the press’s role in democracy, as well as journalists’ relationships with local communities. Grounded in recent frameworks examining how journalists’ role conceptions can evolve or be reinforced through metajournalistic discourse, we find…
When Celebrity and Political Journalism Collide: Reporting Standards, Entertainment, and the Conundrum of Covering Donald Trump’s 2016 Campaign
While the rise of celebrities-turned-politicians has been well documented and theorized, how their bids for office are treated by the establishment press has been less closely examined. Research on celebrity politics on the one hand, and on journalism standards on the other, have rarely been brought into conversation with one another. Here, we draw from both literatures to explore how the press covered Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. P…
Engaged Journalism and News Work: A Sociotechnical Analysis of Organizational Dynamics and Professional Challenges
Building upon the sociotechnical perspective presented by Lewis and Westlund (2015, “Actors, Actants, Audiences, and Activities in Cross-media News Work: A Matrix and a Research Agenda.” Digital Journalism 3 (1): 19–37. doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.927986), this study examines organizational dynamics, technological affordances and professional challenges of engaged journalism practices by analyzing how Hearken, one of the most celebrated audience en…
Conceptualizing the Active Audience: Rhetoric and Practice in “Engaged Journalism
A constellation of journalistic tools, platforms, companies and nonprofit funding has recently emerged, promoting the idea that allowing the audience to contribute to the news agenda is a promising strategy to increase trust in journalism, create new revenue streams and foster community-building. Despite a growing body of research, however, two main issues remain currently unexplored: (1) the extent to which engaged journalism as a practice align…
Transition Essay
Political Identity Ownership: Symbolic Contests to Represent Members of the Public
This study develops the concept of identity ownership to explain how, in the course of electioneering, candidates perform their own identities to align with groups whose support they seek. We frame this from a communication perspective-media are increasingly central sites for constructing and conveying the identity of candidates and the groups of constituents they seek to represent. In developing this model, we seek to bring this identity-based f…
Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President—What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know
Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s latest work could not be more timely. Actually, one wishes her painstaking account of “What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know” about the role of Russian disinformation in the 2016 election could have come even sooner. One hopes even more earnestly that everyone who studies presidential elections, everyone who safeguards their security, and particularly every journalist who covers them will heed this book. Of its many insights,…
Doris A. Graber’s Contributions to Political Communication
Doris A. Graber’s Contributions to Political Communication." Political Communication, 35(3), pp. 508–509
In Their Own Words: Political Practitioner Accounts of Candidates, Audiences, Affordances, Genres, and Timing in Strategic Social Media Use
This study inductively develops a new conceptual framework for analyzing strategic campaign communications across different social media platforms through an analysis of candidate social media strategies during the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle. We conducted a series of open-ended, in-depth qualitative interviews with campaign professionals active during the 2016 presidential cycle. Our analysis revealed that scholars need to account for …
Personalization, gender, and social media: Gubernatorial candidates’ social media strategies
This study focuses on the ‘self-personalization’ of campaign politics, marked by candidates highlighting their personal lives over their policy positions. The rise of social media may be accelerating this shift. Applying Strategic Stereotype Theory [Fridkin, K. L., & Kenney, P. J. (2014 Fridkin, K. L., & Kenney, P. J. (2014). The changing face of representation: The gender of U.S. senators and constituent communications. Ann Arbor: University of …
Practicing Engagement: Participatory journalism in the Web 2.0 era
In recent years, the rapid expansion of Web 2.0 tools has opened new possibilities for audience participation in news, while “engagement” has become a media industry buzzword. In this study, we explore approaches to engagement emerging in the field based on in-depth interviews with editors at a range of news outlets from several countries, and we map these approaches onto the literature on participatory journalism and related innovations in journ…
What We Should Really Be Asking About Media Attention to Trump
In her piece for the November 2016 issue of The Forum, “How the News Media Helped to Nominate Trump,” Julia Azari contends that the media played a crucial coordination function for Donald Trump’s r
What Predicts the Game Frame? Media Ownership, Electoral Context, and Campaign News
While scholars have often bemoaned journalists' heavy use of game-framed and "horse-race" coverage of elections, the contexts most likely to produce game-framed news have not yet been well identified. Our data collection across three election cycles (2004, 2006, 2008) and various levels of elective office (candidates for governor and U.S Senate), and across multiple media markets and types of news organizations allows us to examine the extent to …
The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power
The best books are those that provide new ways of mapping complex terrain, enabling new analytical approaches and pointing to pathways out of intellectual dead-ends. Andrew Chadwick's The Hybrid Media System promises to be such a book. Chadwick's simple starting place is that the standard terminology of “old” and “new” media no longer serves to make sense of today's complex media ecology. In fact, it never did, because “[w]hat counts as new media…
Fact Checking the Campaign: How Political Reporters Use Twitter to Set the Record Straight (or Not)
In a multichannel era of fragmented and contested political communication, both misinformation and fact checking have taken on new significance. The rise of Twitter as a key venue for political journalists would seem to support their fact-checking activities. Through a content analysis of political journalists’ Twitter discourse surrounding the 2012 presidential debates, this study examines the degree to which fact-checking techniques were used o…
The Evolution of an Expatriate Newspaper: As seen through editorial policies of the Paris Herald
Although seldom the subject of scholarly inquiry, the expatriate newspaper is rich in research possibilities. These papers are a laboratory for understanding the evolution of American journalism. In the interest of exploring these possibilities, our study looks at one of the most venerable expatriate newspapers, the Paris Herald, which James Gordon Bennett, Jr. created in 1887 and carries on today with a different name under the ownership of the …
Tweeting Conventions: Political journalists' use of Twitter to cover the 2012 presidential campaign
This study explores the use of Twitter by political reporters and commentators—an understudied population within the rapidly growing literature on digital journalism—covering the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions. In particular, we want to know if and how the “affordances” of Twitter are shaping the traditional norms and routines of US campaign reporting surrounding objectivity, transparency, gatekeeping, and horse race coverage, and whe…
Introductory Essay
Traits versus Issues: How Female Candidates Shape Coverage of Senate and Gubernatorial Races
As female candidates may face greater challenges in establishing their “qualifications” for office, coverage of their personal traits may be pernicious, because it tends to de-emphasize substantive qualifications. This study focuses on relative amounts of trait and issue coverage of contests with and without women candidates. We find that races with female candidates yield more coverage of traits than male versus male contests and races with fema…
In Their Own Words: Political Practitioner Accounts of Candidates, Audiences, Affordances, Genres, and Timing in Strategic Social Media Use
This study inductively develops a new conceptual framework for analyzing strategic campaign communications across different social media platforms through an analysis of candidate social media strategies during the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle. We conducted a series of open-ended, in-depth qualitative interviews with campaign professionals active during the 2016 presidential cycle. Our analysis revealed that scholars need to account for …
Game-Framing the Issues: Tracking the Strategy Frame in Public Policy News
Scholars and journalists have argued that the game frame reporting politics primarily in strategic terms is predominant in mainstream news reporting of politics. Game-oriented reporting is problematic, according to its critics, because it crowds out issue-based reporting. But as of yet we know little and have theorized little about the specific contexts in which the game frame is likely to be reporters primary emphasis. While numerous studies hav…
Framing Obesity: The Evolution of News Discourse on a Public Health Issue
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 solutions when those problems can be reframed in systemic terms—specifically, in terms of involuntary risk, universal risk, environmental risk, and knowingly created risk. This article assesses the framing of obesity in news covera…
Practicing Engagement: Participatory journalism in the Web 2.0 era
In recent years, the rapid expansion of Web 2.0 tools has opened new possibilities for audience participation in news, while “engagement” has become a media industry buzzword. In this study, we explore approaches to engagement emerging in the field based on in-depth interviews with editors at a range of news outlets from several countries, and we map these approaches onto the literature on participatory journalism and related innovations in journ…
News Icons and the Mainstreaming of Social Change
Journal Article News Icons and the Mainstreaming of Social Change Get access W. Lance Bennett, W. Lance Bennett 1W. Lance Bennett is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Regina G. Lawrence Regina G. Lawrence 2Regina G. Lawrence a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Search fo…
Traits versus Issues: How Female Candidates Shape Coverage of Senate and Gubernatorial Races
As female candidates may face greater challenges in establishing their “qualifications” for office, coverage of their personal traits may be pernicious, because it tends to de-emphasize substantive qualifications. This study focuses on relative amounts of trait and issue coverage of contests with and without women candidates. We find that races with female candidates yield more coverage of traits than male versus male contests and races with fema…
What Predicts the Game Frame? Media Ownership, Electoral Context, and Campaign News
While scholars have often bemoaned journalists' heavy use of game-framed and "horse-race" coverage of elections, the contexts most likely to produce game-framed news have not yet been well identified. Our data collection across three election cycles (2004, 2006, 2008) and various levels of elective office (candidates for governor and U.S Senate), and across multiple media markets and types of news organizations allows us to examine the extent to …
Tweeting Conventions: Political journalists' use of Twitter to cover the 2012 presidential campaign
This study explores the use of Twitter by political reporters and commentators—an understudied population within the rapidly growing literature on digital journalism—covering the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions. In particular, we want to know if and how the “affordances” of Twitter are shaping the traditional norms and routines of US campaign reporting surrounding objectivity, transparency, gatekeeping, and horse race coverage, and whe…
What We Should Really Be Asking About Media Attention to Trump
In her piece for the November 2016 issue of The Forum, “How the News Media Helped to Nominate Trump,” Julia Azari contends that the media played a crucial coordination function for Donald Trump’s r
Media Framing and Policy Change After Columbine
The 1999 Columbine school shooting incident in Colorado gained far more media attention across a broader range of issues than any school violence episode before or since. One might expect that Columbine would have had an influence on public opinion, public policy, and scholarship commensurate with the attention it gained. We find that the event did contribute in a limited but interesting way to scholarship on media framing. But the effect of Colu…
Accidents, icons, and indexing: The dynamics of news coverage of police use of force
This study explores the construction of news about police use of force in the Los Angeles Times over a six‐year period culminating in the crisis generated by the Rodney King beating. The data presented here indicate that the "indexing" norm may not fully explain the pattern of inclusion of nonofficial voices and challenging views in the news. Dramatic news events apparently can license journalists to usher challenging views into the news in signi…
Political Identity Ownership: Symbolic Contests to Represent Members of the Public
This study develops the concept of identity ownership to explain how, in the course of electioneering, candidates perform their own identities to align with groups whose support they seek. We frame this from a communication perspective-media are increasingly central sites for constructing and conveying the identity of candidates and the groups of constituents they seek to represent. In developing this model, we seek to bring this identity-based f…
Engaged Journalism and News Work: A Sociotechnical Analysis of Organizational Dynamics and Professional Challenges
Building upon the sociotechnical perspective presented by Lewis and Westlund (2015, “Actors, Actants, Audiences, and Activities in Cross-media News Work: A Matrix and a Research Agenda.” Digital Journalism 3 (1): 19–37. doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.927986), this study examines organizational dynamics, technological affordances and professional challenges of engaged journalism practices by analyzing how Hearken, one of the most celebrated audience en…
Conceptualizing the Active Audience: Rhetoric and Practice in “Engaged Journalism
A constellation of journalistic tools, platforms, companies and nonprofit funding has recently emerged, promoting the idea that allowing the audience to contribute to the news agenda is a promising strategy to increase trust in journalism, create new revenue streams and foster community-building. Despite a growing body of research, however, two main issues remain currently unexplored: (1) the extent to which engaged journalism as a practice align…
Guns, Hollywood, and School Safety: Defining the School‐Shooting Problem Across Public Arenas
Objective. Research in agenda setting has demonstrated that dramatic news events can drive particular issues to the top of the media and governmental agendas. The objective of this study is to analyze how different aspects of an event‐driven problem compete for attention in those arenas. Methods. The method is content analysis of media coverage and congressional legislative activity following the 1999 Columbine High School shootings. Results. The…
Fact Checking the Campaign: How Political Reporters Use Twitter to Set the Record Straight (or Not)
In a multichannel era of fragmented and contested political communication, both misinformation and fact checking have taken on new significance. The rise of Twitter as a key venue for political journalists would seem to support their fact-checking activities. Through a content analysis of political journalists’ Twitter discourse surrounding the 2012 presidential debates, this study examines the degree to which fact-checking techniques were used o…
Talking About Public Health: Developing America’s “Second Language”
The mission of public health—improving the health of populations—is difficult to advance in public discourse because a language to express the values animating that mission has not been adequately developed. Following on the work of Robert Bellah, Dan Beauchamp, and others, we argue that the first “language” of American culture is individualism. A second American language of community—rooted in egalitarianism, humanitarianism, and human interconn…
When Celebrity and Political Journalism Collide: Reporting Standards, Entertainment, and the Conundrum of Covering Donald Trump’s 2016 Campaign
While the rise of celebrities-turned-politicians has been well documented and theorized, how their bids for office are treated by the establishment press has been less closely examined. Research on celebrity politics on the one hand, and on journalism standards on the other, have rarely been brought into conversation with one another. Here, we draw from both literatures to explore how the press covered Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. P…
Seeing the Whole Board: New Institutional Analysis of News Content
The author assesses the merits of various new institutional approaches to news presented as part of a symposium on the subject and suggests that one of the advantages of these approaches is their effort to see the major variables of news production in relation to one another and moving in time. However, this very sensitivity to interaction and time makes new institutionalist explanations complex. In this regard, of particular importance is the te…
Filling the 24 × 7 News Hole: Television News Coverage Following September 11
In the days following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, all the major television networks devoted their broadcasts to continuous news coverage without commercial interruption. This article analyzes the prime-time broadcasts from ABC, NBC, and CNN over the 3 days from September 12 to 14, 2001. First, the authors ask whether the networks used the additional time to develop longer reports and more sustained treatment of news subjects. Secon…
Trump Goes to Tulsa on Juneteenth: Placing the Study of Identity, Social Groups, and Power at the Center of Political Communication Research
Bringing Out the Hook: Exit Talk in Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton and Past Presidential Campaigns
In this article the authors measure a phenomenon they name “exit talk”: the undertheorized pressures that second-place contenders for presidential nominations face to exit the race. Content analysis of media exit talk from the 2008 Clinton candidacy compared with that of key comparators from other modern presidential campaigns suggests that Clinton experienced greater levels of exit talk than her historical comparators, though less explicit press…
Rethinking Media Politics and Public Opinion: Reactions to the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal
REGINA G. LAWRENCE is assistant professor of political science at Portland State University. She is the author of The Politics of Force: Media and the Construction of Police Brutality. W. LANCE BENNETT is professor of political science and Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, where he also directs the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. His most recent book is Mediated Politics: Communication …
The Politics of Force: Media and the Construction of Police Brutality, Updated Edition
This book considers how media coverage of unexpected, dramatic events shapes public consciousness about important social and political problems. It argues that when incidents of police brutality become news, they offer one of the few real battlegrounds available for marginalized voices and activists to find a public platform and take on the powerful. Including new chapters that look more closely at race and racial justice in incidents of police f…
Disseminator, Watchdog and Neighbor: Positioning Local Journalism in the 2018 #FreePress Editorials Campaign
On August 15, 2018, hundreds of newspapers around the United States published editorials defending journalism against attacks by President Trump. This study examines how these editorials rhetorically represented the press’s role in democracy, as well as journalists’ relationships with local communities. Grounded in recent frameworks examining how journalists’ role conceptions can evolve or be reinforced through metajournalistic discourse, we find…
News Icons and the Mainstreaming of Social Change
Journal Article News Icons and the Mainstreaming of Social Change Get access W. Lance Bennett, W. Lance Bennett 1W. Lance Bennett is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Regina G. Lawrence Regina G. Lawrence 2Regina G. Lawrence a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Search fo…
Notes on recent dissertations
Accidents, icons, and indexing: The dynamics of news coverage of police use of force
This study explores the construction of news about police use of force in the Los Angeles Times over a six‐year period culminating in the crisis generated by the Rodney King beating. The data presented here indicate that the "indexing" norm may not fully explain the pattern of inclusion of nonofficial voices and challenging views in the news. Dramatic news events apparently can license journalists to usher challenging views into the news in signi…
The politics of force: Media and the Construction of Police Brutality
Lawrence extensively analyzes more than 500 incidents of police use-of-force covered by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 1991. The incidents include but are not limited to those defined as "police brutality". Lawrence reveals the structural and cultural forces that both shape the news and allow police to define most use-of-force incidents, which occur in far greater numbers than are reported, she says. Lawrence explores t…
Game-Framing the Issues: Tracking the Strategy Frame in Public Policy News
Scholars and journalists have argued that the game frame reporting politics primarily in strategic terms is predominant in mainstream news reporting of politics. Game-oriented reporting is problematic, according to its critics, because it crowds out issue-based reporting. But as of yet we know little and have theorized little about the specific contexts in which the game frame is likely to be reporters primary emphasis. While numerous studies hav…
Civic Engagement in the Era of Big Stories
Keywords: Clinton Civic Engagement Deliberation Impeachment Scandal Journalism Lewinsky News Saga Tabloid Media
Rethinking Media Politics and Public Opinion: Reactions to the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal
REGINA G. LAWRENCE is assistant professor of political science at Portland State University. She is the author of The Politics of Force: Media and the Construction of Police Brutality. W. LANCE BENNETT is professor of political science and Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication at the University of Washington, where he also directs the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. His most recent book is Mediated Politics: Communication …
Framing Obesity: The Evolution of News Discourse on a Public Health Issue
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 solutions when those problems can be reframed in systemic terms—specifically, in terms of involuntary risk, universal risk, environmental risk, and knowingly created risk. This article assesses the framing of obesity in news covera…
Guns, Hollywood, and School Safety: Defining the School‐Shooting Problem Across Public Arenas
Objective. Research in agenda setting has demonstrated that dramatic news events can drive particular issues to the top of the media and governmental agendas. The objective of this study is to analyze how different aspects of an event‐driven problem compete for attention in those arenas. Methods. The method is content analysis of media coverage and congressional legislative activity following the 1999 Columbine High School shootings. Results. The…
Filling the 24 × 7 News Hole: Television News Coverage Following September 11
In the days following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, all the major television networks devoted their broadcasts to continuous news coverage without commercial interruption. This article analyzes the prime-time broadcasts from ABC, NBC, and CNN over the 3 days from September 12 to 14, 2001. First, the authors ask whether the networks used the additional time to develop longer reports and more sustained treatment of news subjects. Secon…
A Review of “Fahrenheit 9/11”: Directed by Michael Moore, produced by Michael Moore, Jim Czarnecki, and Kathleen Glynn, 2004. Running time: 122 minutes. Theatrical release distributed by Lions Gate Fi…
Michael Moore's third documentary, released in the heat of the 2004 presidential campaign, was met with much hype and vitriol. Moore explicitly set out to end the presidency of George W. Bush, whil
The Rest of the Story: Public Health, the News, and the 2001 Anthrax Attacks
The 2001 anthrax attacks brought public health into the media spotlight in away unmatched since the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. This moment presented Americans with opportunities to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s public health infrastructure, as well as to better understand the political and policy backgrounds against which this infrastructure operates. The authors systematically examined how thoroughly this underl…
Talking About Public Health: Developing America’s “Second Language”
The mission of public health—improving the health of populations—is difficult to advance in public discourse because a language to express the values animating that mission has not been adequately developed. Following on the work of Robert Bellah, Dan Beauchamp, and others, we argue that the first “language” of American culture is individualism. A second American language of community—rooted in egalitarianism, humanitarianism, and human interconn…
None Dare Call It Torture: Indexing and the Limits of Press Independence in the Abu Ghraib Scandal
This paper considers the extent to which leading news organizations use independent documentation to build interpretations of events that challenge official framing. The data presented in this study show that despite available evidence and sources to support a counterframing of the Abu Ghraib prison story in terms of a policy of torture, the leading national news organizations did not produce a frame that strongly challenged the Bush administrati…
Seeing the Whole Board: New Institutional Analysis of News Content
The author assesses the merits of various new institutional approaches to news presented as part of a symposium on the subject and suggests that one of the advantages of these approaches is their effort to see the major variables of news production in relation to one another and moving in time. However, this very sensitivity to interaction and time makes new institutionalist explanations complex. In this regard, of particular importance is the te…
When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina
"Why, in these times when we most need a critical, independent press, does this essential pillar of democracy fail us? A look at the intimate relationship between political power and the news media, When the Press Fails argues that reporters' dependence on official sources disastrously thwarts coverage of dissenting voices from all but the most influential circles." "The result is both an indictment of official spin and an urgent call to action t…
My Country, My Country , directed by Laura Poitras, produced by Jocelyn Glatzer and Laura Poitras Iraq in Fragments , directed by James Longley, produced by John Sinno and James Longley: 2006. 90 Minu…
As the war in Iraq drags on into its fifth year, the American press and public have only slowly become aware of the complicated political dynamics that have stymied plans for democratizing Iraq. In
Politics and Film: The Political Culture of Film in the United States , by Daniel P. Franklin
The central argument of Politics and Film is that the content of today's mainstream movies is strongly driven by marketplace demand and audience tastes (or at least the film industry's best guesses
Media Framing and Policy Change After Columbine
The 1999 Columbine school shooting incident in Colorado gained far more media attention across a broader range of issues than any school violence episode before or since. One might expect that Columbine would have had an influence on public opinion, public policy, and scholarship commensurate with the attention it gained. We find that the event did contribute in a limited but interesting way to scholarship on media framing. But the effect of Colu…
The Paradox of Respectability: The Limits of Indexing and Harrison Salisbury’s Coverage of the Vietnam War
In December 1966 through January 1967, Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times wrote dispatches based on a visit to Hanoi that disputed the administration’s claims that its highly accurate bombing did not hit civilian targets in North Vietnam. Administration officials, other journalists, and even his own paper challenged his reporting. Deemed unpatriotic, Salisbury was denied a Pulitzer Prize. This case study employs documents from the files of …
Foreign correspondence
Bridging Past and Future: Using history and practice to inform social scientific study of foreign newsgathering
Sourcing is a bedrock routine of American journalism, but little is known about how it may have evolved over time. This exploratory study combines social scientific and historical methods to examine sourcing in New York Times coverage of two incidents separated by decades: the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and the Russian invasion of Chechnya in 1994. We find that while official sources have long been a mainstay of American reporting ab…
Bringing Out the Hook: Exit Talk in Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton and Past Presidential Campaigns
In this article the authors measure a phenomenon they name “exit talk”: the undertheorized pressures that second-place contenders for presidential nominations face to exit the race. Content analysis of media exit talk from the 2008 Clinton candidacy compared with that of key comparators from other modern presidential campaigns suggests that Clinton experienced greater levels of exit talk than her historical comparators, though less explicit press…
The Evolution of an Expatriate Newspaper: As seen through editorial policies of the Paris Herald
Although seldom the subject of scholarly inquiry, the expatriate newspaper is rich in research possibilities. These papers are a laboratory for understanding the evolution of American journalism. In the interest of exploring these possibilities, our study looks at one of the most venerable expatriate newspapers, the Paris Herald, which James Gordon Bennett, Jr. created in 1887 and carries on today with a different name under the ownership of the …
Tweeting Conventions: Political journalists' use of Twitter to cover the 2012 presidential campaign
This study explores the use of Twitter by political reporters and commentators—an understudied population within the rapidly growing literature on digital journalism—covering the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions. In particular, we want to know if and how the “affordances” of Twitter are shaping the traditional norms and routines of US campaign reporting surrounding objectivity, transparency, gatekeeping, and horse race coverage, and whe…
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