Seymour Hersh
Hersh, whose 1969 story on Lieutenant Calley and the My Lai massacre won the Pulitzer Prize and brought him to national prominence, has been exposing the wrongdoing of public figures for more than four decades.
The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril
Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post, and Robert G. Kaiser, associate editor and senior correspondent, report on a growing crisis in American journalism. From the corporatization that leads media moguls to slash content for profit, to newsrooms that ignore global crises to report on personal entertainment, these veteran journalists chronicle an erosion of independent, relevant journalism. In the process, they make clear why incorruptible reporting is crucial to American society. Rooted in interviews and first-hand accounts, the authors take us inside the politically charged world of one of America’s powerful institutions, the media.
Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age
Integrating a broad range of current research on how people learn (from political science, social psychology, communication, physiology, and artificial intelligence), Doris Graber shows that televised presentations—at their best—actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. She critiques current political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capacities and interests, and she considers the obstacles, both economic and political, that affect the content we receive on the air, on cable, or on the Internet.
Crisis in the Catholic Church
Investigative reports from the Boston Globe exposed the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.
Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent at CNN, won the 2002 Goldsmith Career Award for her groundbreaking coverage of war and conflicts around the world. Her talk at Harvard Kennedy School discussed foreign coverage in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks.
The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
This book ignites a national dialogue on issues vital to us all and it is the starting point for discussions by journalists and members of the public about the nature of journalism and the access to information.
The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America
Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans not through personal relationships but through the images the media show them. The Black Image in the White Mind offers a comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of Whites toward Blacks.
Uninformed Consent
The Seattle Times began a five-part investigative series entitled, “Uninformed Consent: What patients at ‘The Hutch’ weren’t told about the experiments in which they died.” In it, Times reporters David Heath and Duff Wilson described how patients had died prematurely in two clinical trials at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, experiments in which some of their doctors and the center itself had a financial interest.
Ted Turner
The vice chairman and senior adviser of AOL Time Warner, R.E. (Ted) Turner pioneered the world’s first live, in-depth, around-the-clock, all-news television network with the launch of CNN in 1980.
Politicians Don’t Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness
This book asks us to reexamine whether our government really responds to the broad public or to the narrower interests and values of certain groups.