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How Do Editors Decide What Political Stories to Cover?

Photo by Greg Behar/U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Center for Photography.By a margin of 59 percent to 34 percent, participants in Pew Center survey said they think editors care…

Is Getting Personal the Same as Probing Character?

David Broder, columnist, The Washington Post: “The harder part is how we can help voters figure out who the hell these candidates really are and how they might operate. I…

Are We Asking the Right Questions?

Are members of the press asking candidates the right questions? What should those questions be? A number of panelists, including journalists and politicians, had some ideas about specific topics that…

Do Members of the Press Try to Set the Policy Agenda?

Lee Hamilton, former congressman from Indiana: “I am impressed about how many people in the media in Washington, D.C. really are not much interested in doing what I at least…

The Sound You Hear Is Silence

When the subject is corporate immorality, nary a judgmental word is heard.

Designing and Distributing the Survey

With the help of researcher Sue Schuermann, electronic databases were examined to find news stories about corporate crimes and misconduct. These examples were individualized for inclusion in the letters that…

Summer 2000: Watchdog Conference Introduction

It’s the tendency to focus on the celebrity, the character, not serious character but personality traits of political figures that trivializes the political process. So the focus of this discussion…

‘Journalism and Democracy Are Names for the Same Thing.’

A book raises journalists from their self-interested complacency.

Keeping a Reporter’s Eye on the Contributions

It’s easier to find the money, but does the public still want to know?

Coverage of Media Mergers

Does it provide a window into the future of journalism?