John Maxwell Hamilton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3744392 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Maxwell Hamilton |
| PRENOMES | John Maxwell |
| SOBRENOME | Hamilton |
| ASSINATURA | HAMILTON J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
“By Far the Best of Our Foreign Representatives
The Committee on Public Information’s efforts during World War I marked the beginning of American public diplomacy, but its influence has been overlooked. This paper examines the role of suffragist Vira B. Whitehouse in the pioneering endeavor in Berne, Switzerland. Scant research has looked at Whitehouse’s significant contribution to public diplomacy and, even then, it largely ignores the challenges she faced. Nor does the research link her work…
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print
KEYWORDS: New York Timesdisinformationfake newsnewspaper historymedia historyjournalism research methods Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn Maxwell HamiltonJohn Maxwell Hamilton is a longtime journalist, author and public servant, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication and a global scholar a…
Donald A. Ritchie. The Columnist
The Sisson Documents and their ‘distinguished place’ in the history of disinformation
Russian interference in American politics appears today in sophisticated forms thanks to technology, but disinformation is not a new phenomenon. The influence of foreign disinformation on domestic policy has antecedents in the First World War, when the American government distributed fabricated documents supplied by anti-Communist revolutionaries to make false claims about a German-Bolshevik conspiracy. The so-called Sisson Documents strengthened…
Public Service or Propaganda? How Americans Evaluate Political Advocacy by Executive Agencies
Objective Executive agencies of the federal government frequently engage in explicit political advocacy, exhorting the public to adopt policy positions and engage in political actions. This advocacy conflicts with legal restrictions on unelected bureaucrats. It is unclear what the public thinks of this kind of advocacy. We assess whether Americans judge this advocacy based on principles about acceptable political processes or based on policy goal…
The natural history of the news
Scholars, editors, and reporters have tended to treat news and journalism as synonymous. This conception has privileged a particular kind of journalism often called the Anglo-American model. This study argues journalism has been a type of news reporting for a relatively brief period. Using the concept of epigenetics, the authors argue that journalism is usefully seen as a coating on the DNA of news, which has existed for centuries. Journalism eme…
The Evolution of an Expatriate Newspaper
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 …
The Paradox of Respectability
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 …
Normalcy and Foreign News
This longitudinal study examines what is "normal" in US newspaper foreign coverage in the twentieth century. A quantitative content analysis of three newspapers among the 40 examined by Woodward (1930) looked at two constructed weeks of each in 1927, 1947, 1977, and 1997. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to explain the findings related to 39,841 articles encompassing 246,301 paragraphs in 168 issues. Our findings support what we c…
Foreign correspondence
Bridging Past and Future
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…
Film Portrayals of Foreign Correspondents
This study combines content analysis and a close reading of movies to assess the portrayal of foreign correspondents in films during two periods: the golden age of foreign correspondence (the 1930s to World War II) and the years after the Vietnam War. The analysis revealed that movies generally depict foreign correspondents as heroes, but their status changes over time, and so do the circumstances in which they work. The differences during the tw…
The History of a Surviving Species
In 1925, University of Chicago sociologist Robert Park published a seminal essay on "The Natural History of the Newspaper." That history, he wrote, "is the history of the surviving species. It is an account of the conditions under which the existing newspaper has grown up and taken form." The reporting of foreign events in American news media has its own natural history. Commercialization and changing forms of ownership, the emergence of new medi…
An Enabling Environment
This study of the media's influence on the Spanish–American War revises the revisionists through quantitative research. In this, the first study to accept Caudill's challenge to reconstruct historical public opinion through agenda-setting research, we do not find the yellow press started the war—as has been previously theorized and disproved—but we do find that sensational and conservative newspapers together created an enabling environment for g…
Strengthening Higher Education Through Gridiron Success? Public Perceptions of the Impact of National Football Championships on Academic Quality
Objectives. This article examines the extent to which the public connects athletic success with academic quality, whether these connections are stronger during a year in which a state university wins a national championship, the type of respondents most likely to make such connections, and whether these connections make a difference in terms of public evaluations and support for higher education. Embedded within the 2004 survey instrument, we als…
Covering a Two-Front War
This article examines the largely unrecognized area of African American foreign correspondence during World War II, and it looks at local reporting about the conflict in order to ascertain how the black press framed the war. The Norfolk Journal and Guide, one of the most respected African American newspapers of the time, sent three journalists overseas to cover the war. This article provides a comprehensive textual analysis of editorials and arti…
Redefining Foreign Correspondence
Scholars have used the traditional elite foreign correspondent as a prime measure of the quality of foreign news coverage. They regularly track the size of the corps of correspondents and focus their analyses of foreign news on coverage in major established news outlets like The New York Times and CBS. While this model has worked well for many years, it does not now. This is a result of the chronic decline of elite foreign correspondents coupled …
US Foreign Correspondents
This article reports the findings from a comprehensive survey of US foreign correspondents conducted in 2001. Some trends - such as Eurocentrism, relatively high degrees of education and the like - continue. New trends also appeared in the study. More foreign nationals work for US media than ever before. The Internet is having a profound impact on the way foreign correspondents go about their work. Both of these new findings, which have important…
The New Foreign Correspondence
UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY, only a few news organizations had the capacity to gather and disseminate reports on international events and issues. Those interested in international affairs gleaned what they could from whatever these newspapers, newsmagazines, or network news programs offered. The audience-generalized and passive routinely received small amounts of overseas coverage. Laments about the inadequate amount of international news coverage span …
Congress fights back
US Foreign Correspondents
This article reports the findings from a comprehensive survey of US foreign correspondents conducted in 2001. Some trends - such as Eurocentrism, relatively high degrees of education and the like - continue. New trends also appeared in the study. More foreign nationals work for US media than ever before. The Internet is having a profound impact on the way foreign correspondents go about their work. Both of these new findings, which have important…
The natural history of the news
Scholars, editors, and reporters have tended to treat news and journalism as synonymous. This conception has privileged a particular kind of journalism often called the Anglo-American model. This study argues journalism has been a type of news reporting for a relatively brief period. Using the concept of epigenetics, the authors argue that journalism is usefully seen as a coating on the DNA of news, which has existed for centuries. Journalism eme…
The New Foreign Correspondence
UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY, only a few news organizations had the capacity to gather and disseminate reports on international events and issues. Those interested in international affairs gleaned what they could from whatever these newspapers, newsmagazines, or network news programs offered. The audience-generalized and passive routinely received small amounts of overseas coverage. Laments about the inadequate amount of international news coverage span …
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print
KEYWORDS: New York Timesdisinformationfake newsnewspaper historymedia historyjournalism research methods Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn Maxwell HamiltonJohn Maxwell Hamilton is a longtime journalist, author and public servant, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication and a global scholar a…
Foreign correspondence
Film Portrayals of Foreign Correspondents
This study combines content analysis and a close reading of movies to assess the portrayal of foreign correspondents in films during two periods: the golden age of foreign correspondence (the 1930s to World War II) and the years after the Vietnam War. The analysis revealed that movies generally depict foreign correspondents as heroes, but their status changes over time, and so do the circumstances in which they work. The differences during the tw…
Covering a Two-Front War
This article examines the largely unrecognized area of African American foreign correspondence during World War II, and it looks at local reporting about the conflict in order to ascertain how the black press framed the war. The Norfolk Journal and Guide, one of the most respected African American newspapers of the time, sent three journalists overseas to cover the war. This article provides a comprehensive textual analysis of editorials and arti…
The Paradox of Respectability
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 …
Normalcy and Foreign News
This longitudinal study examines what is "normal" in US newspaper foreign coverage in the twentieth century. A quantitative content analysis of three newspapers among the 40 examined by Woodward (1930) looked at two constructed weeks of each in 1927, 1947, 1977, and 1997. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to explain the findings related to 39,841 articles encompassing 246,301 paragraphs in 168 issues. Our findings support what we c…
Bridging Past and Future
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…
The History of a Surviving Species
In 1925, University of Chicago sociologist Robert Park published a seminal essay on "The Natural History of the Newspaper." That history, he wrote, "is the history of the surviving species. It is an account of the conditions under which the existing newspaper has grown up and taken form." The reporting of foreign events in American news media has its own natural history. Commercialization and changing forms of ownership, the emergence of new medi…
An Enabling Environment
This study of the media's influence on the Spanish–American War revises the revisionists through quantitative research. In this, the first study to accept Caudill's challenge to reconstruct historical public opinion through agenda-setting research, we do not find the yellow press started the war—as has been previously theorized and disproved—but we do find that sensational and conservative newspapers together created an enabling environment for g…
Congress fights back
Congress fights back
The New Foreign Correspondence
UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY, only a few news organizations had the capacity to gather and disseminate reports on international events and issues. Those interested in international affairs gleaned what they could from whatever these newspapers, newsmagazines, or network news programs offered. The audience-generalized and passive routinely received small amounts of overseas coverage. Laments about the inadequate amount of international news coverage span …
Redefining Foreign Correspondence
Scholars have used the traditional elite foreign correspondent as a prime measure of the quality of foreign news coverage. They regularly track the size of the corps of correspondents and focus their analyses of foreign news on coverage in major established news outlets like The New York Times and CBS. While this model has worked well for many years, it does not now. This is a result of the chronic decline of elite foreign correspondents coupled …
US Foreign Correspondents
This article reports the findings from a comprehensive survey of US foreign correspondents conducted in 2001. Some trends - such as Eurocentrism, relatively high degrees of education and the like - continue. New trends also appeared in the study. More foreign nationals work for US media than ever before. The Internet is having a profound impact on the way foreign correspondents go about their work. Both of these new findings, which have important…
Covering a Two-Front War
This article examines the largely unrecognized area of African American foreign correspondence during World War II, and it looks at local reporting about the conflict in order to ascertain how the black press framed the war. The Norfolk Journal and Guide, one of the most respected African American newspapers of the time, sent three journalists overseas to cover the war. This article provides a comprehensive textual analysis of editorials and arti…
An Enabling Environment
This study of the media's influence on the Spanish–American War revises the revisionists through quantitative research. In this, the first study to accept Caudill's challenge to reconstruct historical public opinion through agenda-setting research, we do not find the yellow press started the war—as has been previously theorized and disproved—but we do find that sensational and conservative newspapers together created an enabling environment for g…
Strengthening Higher Education Through Gridiron Success? Public Perceptions of the Impact of National Football Championships on Academic Quality
Objectives. This article examines the extent to which the public connects athletic success with academic quality, whether these connections are stronger during a year in which a state university wins a national championship, the type of respondents most likely to make such connections, and whether these connections make a difference in terms of public evaluations and support for higher education. Embedded within the 2004 survey instrument, we als…
The History of a Surviving Species
In 1925, University of Chicago sociologist Robert Park published a seminal essay on "The Natural History of the Newspaper." That history, he wrote, "is the history of the surviving species. It is an account of the conditions under which the existing newspaper has grown up and taken form." The reporting of foreign events in American news media has its own natural history. Commercialization and changing forms of ownership, the emergence of new medi…
Film Portrayals of Foreign Correspondents
This study combines content analysis and a close reading of movies to assess the portrayal of foreign correspondents in films during two periods: the golden age of foreign correspondence (the 1930s to World War II) and the years after the Vietnam War. The analysis revealed that movies generally depict foreign correspondents as heroes, but their status changes over time, and so do the circumstances in which they work. The differences during the tw…
The Paradox of Respectability
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 …
Normalcy and Foreign News
This longitudinal study examines what is "normal" in US newspaper foreign coverage in the twentieth century. A quantitative content analysis of three newspapers among the 40 examined by Woodward (1930) looked at two constructed weeks of each in 1927, 1947, 1977, and 1997. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to explain the findings related to 39,841 articles encompassing 246,301 paragraphs in 168 issues. Our findings support what we c…
Foreign correspondence
Bridging Past and Future
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…
The Evolution of an Expatriate Newspaper
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 …
The natural history of the news
Scholars, editors, and reporters have tended to treat news and journalism as synonymous. This conception has privileged a particular kind of journalism often called the Anglo-American model. This study argues journalism has been a type of news reporting for a relatively brief period. Using the concept of epigenetics, the authors argue that journalism is usefully seen as a coating on the DNA of news, which has existed for centuries. Journalism eme…
Public Service or Propaganda? How Americans Evaluate Political Advocacy by Executive Agencies
Objective Executive agencies of the federal government frequently engage in explicit political advocacy, exhorting the public to adopt policy positions and engage in political actions. This advocacy conflicts with legal restrictions on unelected bureaucrats. It is unclear what the public thinks of this kind of advocacy. We assess whether Americans judge this advocacy based on principles about acceptable political processes or based on policy goal…
The Sisson Documents and their ‘distinguished place’ in the history of disinformation
Russian interference in American politics appears today in sophisticated forms thanks to technology, but disinformation is not a new phenomenon. The influence of foreign disinformation on domestic policy has antecedents in the First World War, when the American government distributed fabricated documents supplied by anti-Communist revolutionaries to make false claims about a German-Bolshevik conspiracy. The so-called Sisson Documents strengthened…
Donald A. Ritchie. The Columnist
“By Far the Best of Our Foreign Representatives
The Committee on Public Information’s efforts during World War I marked the beginning of American public diplomacy, but its influence has been overlooked. This paper examines the role of suffragist Vira B. Whitehouse in the pioneering endeavor in Berne, Switzerland. Scant research has looked at Whitehouse’s significant contribution to public diplomacy and, even then, it largely ignores the challenges she faced. Nor does the research link her work…
Not All the News That’s Fit to Print
KEYWORDS: New York Timesdisinformationfake newsnewspaper historymedia historyjournalism research methods Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn Maxwell HamiltonJohn Maxwell Hamilton is a longtime journalist, author and public servant, is the Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism at the LSU Manship School of Mass Communication and a global scholar a…
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