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Altheide, David L. (1997), 'The news media, the problem frame, and the production of fear', The Sociological Quarterly 38,4. An examination of the role of the news media in promoting a public discourse of fear and uncertainty.

Austin, Keith (1998), 'Serving up junk food for thought', The Age Green Guide Nov 12. Criticisms of television current affairs in Australia.

Baker, Russ (1997), 'Squeeze', Columbia Journalism Review Sept/Oct. How major advertisers are seeking to influence the content of some US magazines. Balance and Fairness In Broadcasting News (1985-1994): A Response. Prepared by Colin Feslier for New Zealand Public Radio, August 1995. A response to the McGregor and Comrie June 1995 critique of radio and television news performance, challenging many assumptions of the authors

Bertrand, Claude-Jean (1995), 'The media in 2045 - not a forecast, but a dream', Public Relations Review 21 (4). An unusual perspective on the news media, which is not uncritical of some PR practice. Also argues for universiy training as 'the best means, bar none, of improving journalism'.

Buckingham, David (1997), 'News media, political socialization and popular citizenship: towards a new agenda', Critical Studies in Mass Communication 14. Interrogates conventional views about the decline of news media use by young people, calling for popular laternatives to mainstream forms of news.

Brants, Kees (1998) 'Who's afraid of infotainment?', European Journal of Communication 13(3). Argues against the 'infotainement scare' levelled by many against commercial TV news.

Cohen, Nick (1998), 'The death of news', New Statesman May 22. 'Quality journalism is in crisis' in Britain.

Cronkite, Walter (1997), 'More bad news', The Guardian Jan 27. The 'doyen of US anchors' launches an attack on modern TV journalism.

Day, Mark (2000), 'Stop press', The Australian Media, Jan 13-19. Opinion is divided on whether newspapers have much of a future. This article is optrimistic, as are the views expressed in George Thottam (1999), 'The future of newspapers: survival or extinction?', Media Asia 26:4, Ian Katz (1999), 'Final edition', The Guardian Dec 13 and Piers Morgan (1999), 'Keep reading all about it', The Guardian Dec 6.

de Vries, Bert & W. E.R. Zwaga (1997), 'Legislators or interpretors? On the relationship between journalists and their readers', Media, Culture & Society 19. The role of journalists in the Netherlands, with one of the authors being Wiebe Zwaga (formerly of the NZ Broadcasting School in Christchurch).

Edwards, Denis (1995), 'The last tabloid', Quote Unquote October. An affectionate look at Truth, which is now 90 years old but in decline.

Evans, Gareth (1998), 'Sideshow alley', AQ March-April. An Australian politician comments on the shortcomings of political reporting.

Evans, Harold (1999), 'From the World to the web', The Guardian Nov 8. A former editor of The Times defends US newspaper journalism.

Fallows, James (1996), 'Why Americans hate the media', Atlantic Monthly February. A diatribe against the 'self-aggrandizement' of the American news media.

Fulton, Katherine (1996), 'http://www.journalism.now: a tour of our uncertain future', CJR March/April. Explores the fate of journalism in the digital age, with the assertion 'The choice is simple: follow, or lead'.

Fulton, Katherine (1996), 'A tour of our uncertain future', CJR Mar/Apr. A guide to journalism and the Internet.

Gans, Herbert J. (1998), 'What can journalists actually do for American democracy?', Press/Politics 3(4). Interrogates journalistic theories of democracy.

Greenslade, Roy (1997), 'No, they're not reading about it at all', The Guardian July 7. A n international survey suggests a rather dismal future for conventional newspapers.

Guttenplan, D.D. (1997), 'Dumb and dumber?', Columbia Journalism Review July/Aug. An American perspective on the British press.

Harrington, C. Lee (1998), ''Is anyone else out there sick of the news?!': TV viewers' responses to non-routine news coverage', Media, Culture & Society 20. A sympathetic examination of the reasons why daytime soap viewers resent the interruption of their regular viewing by special news events. Rather than such viewers having problems with ' reality', they can distinguish between valid and unnecessary interruptions.

Heyward, Andrew (1997), 'The seven daily sins of television news', Television Quarterly 26:4. Strong criticisms from the President of CBS News.

Harwood, Richard (2997), 'A triumph of journalism', Washington Post Jan 7. How 'good journalism' is 'good business'.

Hill, Deborah (1995), 'Smell of newsprint still persuades', National Business Review Nov 24. A short piece on newspaper circulation in New Zealand.

Horrocks, Nigel (1997), 'Newspapers lose millions in cyberspace', The Independent Aug 22. Newspapers are still figuring out how to make a profit on the Internet.

Jackson, Sally (2000), 'Where does journalism fit in?', The Australian Media Jan 20-26. Threats to journalistic freedom resulting from the AOL-Time Warner merger.

Jacobs, Ronald N. (1996), 'Producing the news, producing the crisis: narrativity, television and news work', Media, Culture & Society 18. The social world of the news worker and the process of television news production, based on a study of a Los Angeles television newsroom.

Jensen, Klaus Bruhn (1996), 'Audience uses of television news in world cultures: comparative findings from the 'News of the World Project'. Paper to the 20th IAMCR conference, Sydney. Preliminary findings from a UNESCO/IAMCR-sponsored study of the reception and social uses of television news in seven countries.

Katz, Jon (1997), 'Q: Who's killing newspapers? A: Raging Old Farts', The Guardian Dec 8. New media techologies are not the real reason for the dcline of newspapers; it is because they have become 'ugly, irrelevant, passive, dull, and pompous...the clucking old maids of the digital age'. Katz provides an agenda for change.

Kelly, Paul (1998), 'Players, pollies and party games', AQ March-April. More on politics and the media in Australia.

Krajicek, David J. (1998), 'The bad, the ugly and the worse', The Guardian May 11. More alarms about journalism, this time from the USA.

Morrow, Lance (1997), 'Journalism after Diana', CJR Nov/Dec. The erasure of 'the necessary line between the public and the private'.

Kuo, Wayne & Glenn Richardson (1997), 'The enchantment of Black Magic: decoding social meanings from the media coverage of the America' Cup', NZ Journalism Review 5, Spring. Substantiates the belief that corporate interests where the key movers behind the excesses of the 1995 Team New Zealand America's Cup win. McManus, John (1995), 'A market-based model of news production', Communication Theory 5:4, Nov. How market economics shape all aspects of the news--consumers, advertisers, investors and sources.

Miller, David (1995), 'The reel crisis in Ireland', New Statesman & Society Aug 4. According to this article, even though censorship of Northern Ireland has been lifted, coverage still remains unbalanced.

Munro, Catharine (1996), 'Witchunt', Refractory Girl 51, Autumn. The media game of 'hunting down real live women and turning them into carcicatures'.

Murphy, Damien (1996), 'Facts and friction', The Bulletin May 28 . A public opinion suggests that 'Australians do not like what their media has become' but the figures do not really support this eg only 36% said that journalists and commentators are poor at behaving in a trustworthy manner.

Newport, Frank & Lydia Saad (1998), 'A matter of trust', AJR July/August. A new Gallup Poll shows that Americans have more confidence in TV news than print.

Norris, Paul (1997(, 'Balance and fairness in broadcasting news (1985-1994), NZ Journalism Review 5, Spring. The head of the NZ Broadcasting School in Christchurch responds to the 1994 McGregor and Comrie study of fairness and balance in broadcast news.

Norris, Pippa (1996), 'Does television erode social capital? A reply to Putnam', PS: Political Science & Politics, Sept. A challenge to the claims of the influential Robert Putnam article 'Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital', and other claims that television has made Americansdisinterested in politics.

Pavlik, John V. (1997), 'The future of on-line journalism', Columbia Journalism Review July/Aug. Is it a 'bonanza or black hole?'

Pilger, John (1997), 'Truth in war and peace', arena magazine Aug/Sept. Pilger argues 'Now more than ever journalists must speak the truth to power'.

Rose, Jeremy (1998), 'The pull of real life events', The Dominion June 30. A useful Outlook classroom resource on journalism in New Zealand.

Rose, Brian (1997), 'Steering the Six O'clock News', Television Quaterly 28:4. Creating local TV news in the USA.

Rosentiel, Tom & Carl Gottlieb (1999), 'Quality brings higher ratings, but enterprise is disappearing', Columbia Journalism Review 38:4, Nov/Dec. A two-year study of local television news in the US.

Smith, Paul (1997), 'Flaws showing despite Granny's new skirt', National Business Review June 27. Journalist Paul Smith makes a welcome return to NBR, with a weekly 'Inside media' column. This column features a critical look at changes at the New Zealand Herald.

Shopland, Alice (1996), 'The future of newspapers', AdMedia Oct. How New Zealand newspapers are dealing with declining readership.

'Stop press', The Economist July 4. The buying and selling of television news services.

'Would you want your kid to be a journalist?', Columbia Journalism Review October 1999. Senior editors and news directors are asked whether they want their children to become journalists. Most (68%) said 'yes'.

Winter, Pahmi (1997), ''Here Be Dragons': the New Zealand news media and international news', New Zealand Sociology 12 (1) May. Pahmi's contribution to an extensive study of international newsflows in the 1990s.


        

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