The Washington Reporters

Author : Stephen Hess
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815719977

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The Washington Reporters by Stephen Hess Pdf

In the vast literature on the way democratic governments work, the role of the press is often overlooked. Yet the press, no less than the formal branches of government, is a public policy institution and deserves to be included in explanations of the governmental process. In The Washington Reporters, Stephen Hess focuses on those who cover the U.S. government for the American commercial news media. His book is based on interviews with reporters and editors and on responses to questionnaires from nearly half of the over 1,200 American reporters in Washington. Analysis of these responses and comparison with the content and placement of over 2,000 of these reporters' news stories permit an unusual—and sometimes startling—perspective on Washington newswork. Mr. Hess demonstrates, for instance, how information in the news regularly comes from the legislative branch of the government, despite the greater number of stories on the presidency; and he shows that Washington news dominates the front pages of daily newspapers across the country, no matter how little may be going on in the nation's capital. The author concludes that "Washington news gathering fragments [media] power, while at the same time it shifts decisions on what is news and how it should be covered to the reporters." The import of this impression is that "reporters are not simply passing along information; they are choosing, within certain limits, what most people will know about government. The freedom given and assumed by these news workers affects the shape of national affairs."

Author : Stephen Hess
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815723882

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Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978-2012 by Stephen Hess Pdf

Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 1978–2012, is the first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American journalism. In 1978 Brookings Senior Fellow Stephen Hess surveyed 450 journalists who were covering national government for U.S. commercial news organizations. His study became the award-winning The Washington Reporters (Brookings, 1981), the first volume in his Newswork series. Now, a generation later, Hess and his team from Brookings and the George Washington University have tracked down 90 percent of the original group, interviewing 283, some as far afield as France, England, Italy, and Australia. What happened to the reporters within their organizations? Did they change jobs? Move from reporter to editor or producer? Jump from one type of medium to another—from print to TV? Did they remain in Washington or go somewhere else? Which ones left journalism? Why? Where did they go? A few of them have become quite famous, including television correspondents Ted Koppel, Sam Donaldson, Brit Hume, Carole Simpson, Judy Woodruff, and Marvin Kalb; some have become editors or publishers of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, or Baltimore Sun; some have had substantial careers outside of journalism. Most, however, did not become household names. The book is designed as a series of self-contained essays, each concentrating on one characteristic, such as age, gender, or place of employment, including newspapers, television networks, wire services, and niche publications. The reporters speak for themselves. When all of these lively portraits are analyzed—one by one—the results are surprisingly different from what journalists and sociologists in 1978 had predicted.

Author : Stephen Hess
Publisher : Brookings Inst Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0815735944

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The Washington Reporters by Stephen Hess Pdf

Author : Donald A. Ritchie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195346329

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Reporting from Washington by Donald A. Ritchie Pdf

Donald Ritchie offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation's capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet. Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the sleepy capital, Ritchie highlights the dramatic changes in journalism that have occurred in the last seven decades. We meet legendary columnists--including Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, and Drew Pearson --as well as the great investigative reporters, from Paul Y. Anderson to the two green Washington Post reporters who launched the political story of the decade--Woodward and Bernstein. We read of the rise of radio news--fought tooth and nail by the print barons--and of such pioneers as Edward R. Murrow, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Elmer Davis. Ritchie also offers a vivid history of TV news, from the early days of Meet the Press, to Huntley and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite, to the cable revolution led by C-SPAN and CNN. In addition, he compares political news on the Internet to the alternative press of the '60s and '70s; describes how black reporters slowly broke into the white press corps (helped mightily by FDR's White House); discusses path-breaking woman reporters such as Sarah McClendon and Helen Thomas, and much more. From Walter Winchell to Matt Drudge, the people who cover Washington politics are among the most colorful and influential in American news. Reporting from Washington offers an unforgettable portrait of these figures as well as of the dramatic changes in American journalism in the twentieth century.

Author : Leo Rosten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015000914151

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The Washington Correspondents by Leo Rosten Pdf

Author : Donald Campbell,Wendell Cochran
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0813814944

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Inside the Beltway by Donald Campbell,Wendell Cochran Pdf

The first edition of this book was an indispensable guide to covering the Washington news beat and became a genuine classic in the political reporting arena. The new second edition of Inside the Beltway expands, revises and updates the original to make it an even more essential tool for Washington journalists as well as a timely textbook for college-level public affairs reporting courses. New to this volume is a chapter that explores the press-government relationship, and how the Internet and cable television have altered this relationship. Chapters focusing on regional reporting and on the foreign correspondent in Washington are also new, along with a complete revision of the resource chapter, chock-full of Internet and website listings. Newly acquired interviews with dozens of practicing reporters and editors form the heart of the book. These interesting dialogues help the reader make sense of the political and bureaucratic maze of the nation’s capital. D.C.-based journalists, reporters outside Washington interested in winning promotion to the Washington bureau, government public information officers, journalism students and professors everywhere– all will benefit from the insight, guidance, and step-by-step strategies of Inside the Beltway: A Guide to Washington Reporting, 2nd Edition

Author : Dan Nimmo,Georgie Anne Geyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351502986

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Newsgathering in Washington by Dan Nimmo,Georgie Anne Geyer Pdf

In the early twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Lippmann said that the presentation of truthful news lies at the heart of democracy. This volume strong strong stems from Dan D. Nimmo's conviction that opinion and policymaking are also significant, interrelated processes within any political system. A democracy poses problematic questions of the manner and means by which political ideas, opinions, and issues are transmitted throughout the body politic. In the United States, such communication is carried on primarily through the news media. Reporters and their sources interact to form crucial relationships linking citizen and official. Nimmo focuses on that interaction, using personal interviews with selected samples of Washington correspondents and their official news sources as his evidence. Nimmo's research examines the relationships that develop between news sources and reporters as each engages in political communication, indicates the factors most influential in determining such relationships, and suggests the implications such findings have for interpreting the tension that characterizes government-press relations in a democracy such as the United States. In this era of heightened attention to the role of the media in political discourse, reissuance of this volume could not be timelier. This study features a new preface by Daniel Pearl Award winner Georgie Anne Geyer. It should be read by all media specialists, communication scholars, and journalists, and will be valuable for those entering these fields as well.

Author : Stephen Hess
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815717695

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News & Newsmaking by Stephen Hess Pdf

Over the last fifteen years, Stephen Hess has become a leading and much-quoted authority on Washington government and the media. In this volume, he presents a collection of his best essays on the media written over the past decade. The book includes: •"All the President's Reporters" examines the White House press corps and the way it covers the president. •"Leaks and Other Informal Communications" is an insider's look at why government officials leak information to journalists. •"The Sex Test" asks whether it makes any difference if the news is written by men or women. Addional collections of Hess' essays published by Brookings include International News & Foreign Correspondence (1996) and Presidents & the Presidency (1996).

Author : Nancy Hanschman Dickerson
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015016913587

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Among Those Present by Nancy Hanschman Dickerson Pdf

"Relates in detail the biggest stories the author has been involved with in the last twenty-five years--ranging from private evening with presidents to the hectic eighteen-hour days in the milling crowds on the floor at national conventions, from traveling around the world with Vice-President Johnson to accompanying Pat Nixon on her trip around the world, from the beats she scored to the scoops she missed. Above all, her account is replete with amusing and revealing anecdotes about four presidents--Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford--at work and at play, with heretofore untold particulars about certain puzzling incidents (for instance, exactly why LBJ was chosen as JFK's running mate in 1960, and the reason why Nixon went out to the Lincoln Memorial in the middle of the night to talk to peace demonstrators after the Cambodian incursion in 1970). Interlaced with such stories, Mrs. Dickerson gives a glimpse of just what day-to-day life is like in the capital, and how the nation's business is conducted not only in committee rooms and on the floor of Congress, but in candlelit dining rooms in Georgetown and on country weekends. She is equally candid about her private life, including her beaus during her early years in Washington (JFK and Scoop Jackson, among others); her marriage to C.W. Dickerson and their purchase of Merrywood, where Gore Vidal and Jackie and Lee Bouvier grew up; as well as stories about her own children and an insider's formula on the art of entertaining in Washington."--Jacket flap.

Author : Leo Rosten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Journalists
ISBN : OCLC:622664725

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The Washington Correspondents, By Leo C. Rosten by Leo Rosten Pdf

Author : Bill Gertz
Publisher : Center for Security Policy
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 098502920X

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Covering Washington by Bill Gertz Pdf

In Covering Washington, veteran national security reporter and author Bill Gertz presents a helpful and entertaining handbook for new journalists navigating the nation's capital. Peppering the book with anecdotes from his long career, Gertz dispenses the kind of wisdom you'd pick up if you were lucky enough to work alongside a journalist who's seen it all-in Washington and in capitals around the world. Covering Washington is a perfect companion for someone launching a career as a reporter.

Author : Don Campbell
Publisher : Iowa State Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015022049962

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Inside the Beltway by Don Campbell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:HL4FRO

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The Washington Law Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leon V. Sigal
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003293789

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Reporters and Officials by Leon V. Sigal Pdf

Author : Leonard Downie Jr
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781541742260

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All About the Story by Leonard Downie Jr Pdf

At a time when the role of journalism is especially critical, the former executive editor of the Washington Post writes about his nearly fifty years at the newspaper and the importance of getting at the truth. In 1964, as a twenty-two-year-old Ohio State graduate with working-class Cleveland roots and a family to support, Len Downie landed an internship with the Washington Post. He would become a pioneering investigative reporter, news editor, foreign correspondent, and managing editor, before succeeding the legendary Ben Bradlee as executive editor. Downie's leadership style differed from Bradlee's, but he played an equally important role over more than four decades in making the Post one of the world's leading news organizations. He was one of the editors on the historic Watergate story and drove coverage of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. He wrestled with the Unabomber's threat to kill more people unless the Post published a rambling 30,000-word manifesto and he published important national security stories in defiance of presidents and top officials. He managed the Post's ascendency to the pinnacle of influence, circulation, and profitability, producing prizewinning investigative reporting with deep impact on American life, before the digital transformation of news media threatened the Post's future. At a dangerous time, when health and economic crises and partisanship are challenging the news media, Downie's judgment, fairness, and commitment to truth will inspire anyone who wants to know how journalism, at its best, works.