News & Newsmaking
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News & Newsmaking

Essays by Stephen Hess

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eBook - ePub

News & Newsmaking

Essays by Stephen Hess

About this book

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).

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Table of contents

  1. Preface: A Journey in Research
  2. An Outline of the U.S. News Business
  3. The Washington Reporter as Insider
  4. All the Presidents’ Reporters
  5. The Golden Triangle
  6. Senators Making News
  7. I Am on TV Therefore I Am
  8. Leaks and Other Informal Communications
  9. Crisis, Television, and Public Pressure
  10. Foreign Correspondents: The News about Us
  11. Confessions of a Sound Bite
  12. Reporting on the States in the American News System
  13. A Journalism Sex Test
  14. Race, Crime, and the Press
  15. Television News and Older Americans
  16. Television News and the Loss of Place
  17. Where Journalism Ends and Fiction Begins