Analysis: Our Commentaries and Backgrounders
This section, Commentaries and Backgrounders, contains our more concise research analyses, such as op eds, articles, speeches, and quick reports. These are distinguished from our more detailed empirical research studies. They are listed below in chronological order. Or you can use the menus on the left to filter our entire archive and find exactly what you want.
| | March 26, 2005, Tom Rosenstiel and Marion Just, The New York Times | | Though presidents have always worked hard to get their message out, the Bush administration has pushed the envelope, especially with its aggressive use of the faux news segments called video news releases. |
| | March 17, 2005, Bill Kovach, Speech delivered at the Washington Press Club | | Speech delivered at the Washington Press Club |
| | February 1, 2005, Bill Kovach, Speech given in Madrid, Spain | | A speech delivered at the Escuela de Periodismo UAM/El País, Madrid, Spain, February 1, 2005 |
| | September 12, 2004, Tom Rosenstiel, The Washington Post | What happened this summer, and particularly last week, is likely to be recalled as the end of the era of network news. At the very least, mark this as the moment when the networks abdicated their authority with the American public. |
| | June 23, 2003, Project for Excellence in Journalism | | PEJ examines how the Lynch saga grew and changed in the media over time. |
| | May 22, 2003, Tom Rosenstiel, Speech given at the Ruhl Symposium, Eugene, Oregon | Thank you. It is an honor, and pleasure, to be here for the Ruhl Symposium. It was also, I have to add, moving to be here for the Payne Awards. Hearing the stories of the winners, of the hardships these journalists had to overcome, including death threats, legal pressure and government coercion, ... |
| | February 27, 2003 | | How aware is the American public of the debate currently taking place about changing the rules over media ownership in the United States? |
| | January 7, 2003, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, The New York Times | Without much notice, the federal government is moving toward the most sweeping change ever in the rules that govern ownership of the American news media. This shift could reduce the independence of the news media and the ability of Americans to take part in public debate. Yet because of mea ... |
| | March 18, 2002, Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach, The Los Angeles Times | | For the sake of argument, put the public interest aside. Forget that broadcast airwaves are public property. Strictly in economic terms, the Walt Disney Co. got lucky when it failed to woo David Letterman to join ABC. The public nature of the Letterman embarrassment has granted Disney something rare ... |
| | March 6, 2002, Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach, The Washington Post | What's left of broadcast television journalism is at stake now, many in the business believe, in the war within the Disney Co. over whether to replace "Nightline" with the late-night comedy of David Letterman. The people who run Disney seem intent on displacing "Nightline" ... |
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