Annotated Bibliography on Journalism
ôReporting on Conflict: A User's Guide to the Beyond Intractability Website, Built Specially for Journalists.ö BeyondIntractability.org. Source can be relocated online at http://www.beyondintractability.org/user_guides/journalists/?nid=5143. This website is dedicated especially to journalists and deals specifically with how to report on conflict. It acknowledges that ôThe mass media have a powerful influence on how people view the world,ö and that the way a reporter frames a conflict can sway public bias in one direction or another.
Vogl, Frank. ôJournalism and Power: Why Ownership Matters.ö MediaChannel.org. Source can be relocated online at http://www.mediachannel.org/views/oped/vogl.shtml. This article by Frank Vogl, president of a firm specializing in issues of corporate globalization and senior ethics advisor to the Ethics Resource Center, was a journalist for 14 years. Vogl makes a case in the article for the media exposing corruption as a means of strengthening democracy.
ôCaslon Analytics Censorship & Free Speech Guide.ö August 2005. Source can be relocated online at http://www.caslon.com.au/censorshipguide10.htm. This website contains information on various types of censorship, including newspaper censorship in wars and in peace, polls, politics, democratic values, and other topics. It includes references to other publications on censorship, and on newspaper censorship in wars in particular.
Three newspapers from the same news agency, Reuters:
The New York Times. This newspaper is a recognized authority on the news and has been associated with high-quality journalism for many years. Source can be relocated online at http://www.nytimes.com/.
The Washington Post. This newspaper is located in Washington, D.C., the hub of U.S. politics. Source can be relocated online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/.
USA Today. This newspaper is a general-intere...