Philip Meyer's work in precision journalism established a new and ongoing trend-the use by reporters of social science research techniques to increase the depth and accuracy of major stories. In this fully updated, fourth edition of the classic Precision Journalism (known as The…
In this fully updated, fourth edition of the classic Precision Journalism, Meyer shows journalists and students of journalism how to use new technology to analyze data and provide more precise information in easier-to-understand forms. New to this edition are an overview of the …
News values from an audience perspective
1. Introduction: News Values from an Audience Perspective -- 2. The Bad News and The Good News About News -- 3. News Values in Audience-Oriented Journalism. Criteria, Angles, and Cues of Newsworthiness in the (Digital) Media Context -- 4. News Values and Topics: A 15-Nation News…
From the creation of newspapers with national reach in the late nineteenth century to the lightning-fast dispatches and debates of today's Internet, the media have played an enormous role in modern American politics. Scholars of political history universally concede the importan…
News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.