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The rise of contextual journalism, 1950s–2000s
Katherine Fink,Michael Schudson +1 more
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This paper found that the growth in contextual reporting has been enormous, from under 10 percent in all three newspapers in 1955 to about 40 percent in 2003; conventional news stories on the front page declined from 80% to 50% of all three papers in the same period.Abstract:
Many journalists and other observers remember the 1960s as a watershed moment in American journalism. Do they remember correctly? This essay reviews relevant empirical studies on how US newspapers have changed since the 1950s. There is strong existing evidence that journalists have come to present themselves as more aggressive, that news stories have grown longer, and that journalists are less willing to have politicians and other government officials frame stories and more likely to advance analysis and context on their own. Based on content analysis of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this study finds that the growth in ‘contextual reporting’ has been enormous – from under 10 percent in all three newspapers in 1955 to about 40 percent in 2003; ‘conventional’ news stories on the front page declined from 80–90 percent in all three papers to about 50 percent in all three papers in the same period. What this study calls ‘contextual reporting’ has not been widely recognize...read more
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U.S. Senators and their world
TL;DR: U.S. Senators and Their World as discussed by the authors is the first book to give a detailed picture of the inside workings of the United States Senate, with extensive interviews with senators, Senate staff members, lobbyists, and Washington journalists.
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American journalism and the decline in event‐centered reporting
Kevin G. Barnhurst,Diana C. Mutz +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that stories grew longer, included more analysis, expanded from specific locations to broader regions, placed more emphasis on time frames other than the present, and named fewer individuals and more groups, officials, and outside sources.