Media
Credibility Bibliography
Updated
July 2002
Online
Resources
Books,
Polls and Reports
ONLINE
RESOURCES
ASNE: Perspectives of People and the Press (1999)
http://www.asne.org/kiosk/reports/99reports/
1999examiningourcredibility/index.htm
ASNE:
Building Reader Trust (2000)
http://www.asne.org/credibilityhandbook/brt/contents.htm
ASNE:
The Newspaper Credibility Handbook (2001)
http://www.asne.org/credibilityhandbook/contents.htm
Best
Practices for Newspaper Journalists
(Bob Haiman, Freedom Forum,
2000)
http://www.freedomforum.org/
publications/diversity/bestpractices/bestpractices.pdf
Committee of Concerned Journalists
http://www.journalism.org/
"Credibility: Does it Drive the Bottom Line?"
Presstime
article by Stephen Hess, August 1998.
http://www.naa.org/presstime/9807/cred.html
"Credibility in Online Media"
Contentious
interviews, June 1998.
http://www.contentious.com/articles/1-3/qa1-3/qa1-3.html
"The Credibility Problem"
American Copy Editors Society,
1999.
http://www.copydesk.org/credibility.htm
"The Decline of Democratic Institutions"
Columbia Journalism Review
column by James Carey,
March / April 1998.
http://www.cjr.org/html/98-03-04-pubnote.html
"The Great Pretender: How a Writer Fooled His Readers"
Columbia Journalism Review
article by Ann Reilly Dowd,
July / August 1998.
http://www.cjr.org/html/98-07-08-glass.html
"Handbook
Offers Foundation for Newsroom Credibility"
ASNE Reporter
2001 article by Cicely K. Dyson, April 5, 2001.
http://www.asne.org/2001reporter/thursday/credibility5.html
"Journalism will have to pull up its socks"
St. Petersburg Times
column by Eugene Patterson, July 10, 1998.
http://www.sptimes.com/Commentary/
71098/Journalism_will_have_.html
"Journalism's Online Credibility Gap"
Business Week
commentary by Mike France, October 11, 1999.
http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_41/b3650163.htm
"Leading the Way Out of the Credibility Crisis"
ASNE speech by Sandra Mims Rowe, April 1, 1998.
Posted on the Web by the
Freedom Forum.
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=7668
"Media and the Masses"
Presstime
article by Tim Lewthwaite, May 1997.
http://www.naa.org/presstime/9705/p597r.html
"Money
Lust: How Pressure for Profit Is Perverting Journalism"
Columbia Journalism Review
article by Neil Hickey, July / August 1998.
http://www.cjr.org/html/98-07-08-moneylust.html
Poynter's
Links to the News: Journalism and Business Values
http://poynter.org (QuickLink: A923)
"The Public and the Media: The Credibility Gap Revisited, 1985-1995"
Presstime
article by Stephen Hess, November 1995.
http://www.naa.org/presstime/96/PTIME/novhess.html
The
Readership Institute
http://www.readership.org/
"Who Owns What"
Columbia Journalism Review
report.
http://www.cjr.org/owners/index.asp
BOOKS
Brogan, Patrick. Spiked:
The Short Life and Death of the National News Council.
New York: Priority Press, 1985.
Bugeja, Michael J. Living Ethics:
Developing Values in Mass Communication.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.
Cappella, Joseph N. and Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Ettema, James S. and Theodore L. Glasser.
Custodians of Conscience:
Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Fallows, James. Breaking the News:
How the Media Undermine American Democracy.
New York: Pantheon, 1995.
Fry, Don, ed. Believing the News.
St. Petersburg: Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 1985.
Fuller, Jack. News Values.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Goldstein, Tom. Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Media
Criticism.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
Hachten, William A. The Troubles of Journalism.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
Klaidman, Stephen and Tom L. Beauchamp.
The Virtuous Journalist.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Kovach,
Bill and Tom Rosenstiel.
The Elements of Journalism.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.
----.
Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media.
New York: The Century Foundation, 1999.
Lambeth, Edmund B. Committed Journalism.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.
Mindich, David T. Z. Just the Facts:
How Objectivity Came to Define American Journalism.
New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Reeves,
Richard. What the People Know: Freedom of the Press.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Roberts, Gene, ed. Leaving Readers Behind:
The Age of Corporate Newspapering.
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001.
POLLS
and REPORTS
American Society of Newspaper Editors. "Examining Our Credibility."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE and Urban & Associates, 1999.
----. "Journalism Values Handbook."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE Ethics and Values Committee
and The Harwood Group, 1995.
----. "Journalism Values Institute: Insights on the Values."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE Ethics and Values Committee
and The Harwood Group, 1996.
----. "Newspaper Credibility:
206 Practical Approaches to Heighten Reader Trust."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE Credibility Committee, April 1986.
----. "Newspaper Credibility: Building Reader Trust."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE Credibility Committee and
Minnesota Opinion Research Inc., April 1985.
----.
"The Newspaper Credibility Handbook."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE Journalism Credibility Project, April 2001.
----.
"Timeless Values:
Staying True to Journalistic Principles in the Age of New Media."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE New Media and Values Committee
and The Harwood Group, April 1995.
Associated Press Managing Editors Association.
"Credibility: Maintaining the Vigil."
Cincinnati, Ohio: APME Professional Standards Committee, 1986.
----. "Journalists and Readers: Bridging the Credibility Gap."
Minneapolis, MN: MORI Research, Inc., October 1985.
"Begging
Your Pardon:
Corrections and Corrections Policies at Twelve U.S. Newspapers."
Gannett Center for Media Studies, 1985.
"News
Junkies, News Critics."
Washington, D.C.: Newseum / Media Studies Center /
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, April 1997.
"The
People, The Press and Their Leaders."
Times Mirror Center Survey.
Washington, D.C.: Times Mirror Center for The People and The Press,
May 1995.
"Profile
of the American News Consumer."
News in the Next Century Project.
Washington, D.C.: Radio and Television News Directors Foundation,
1996.
"Striking
the Balance: Audience Interests,
Business Pressures and Journalists' Values."
Washington, D.C.: The Pew Research Center, March 1999.
"The
Times Poll, Media Survey."
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Times, March 1993.
