Political Science
Research Guides
Politics and the Press
Websites
Pew Center for the People and the Press
"A research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. We are best known for regular national surveys that measure public attentiveness to major news stories, and for our polling that charts trends in values and fundamental political and social attitudes" [from the site]
Operated by the St. Petersburg Times, this site aims to review claims made in the media and test them for accuracy. PolitiFact won the Pulitizer Prize for national reporting for coverage of the 2008 election.
Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics & Public Policy
A research center at Harvard University that studies the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice.
Books
All the presidents' spokesmen : spinning the news,
Klein, Woody. (Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.)McNichols Campus Library
E 176.47 .K58 2008
First ladies and the fourth estate : press framing of presidential wives
Lisa M. Burns. (DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, c2008)McNichols Campus Library
E 176.2 .B86 2008
Managing the President's message : the White House communications operation
Kumar, Martha Joynt. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)McNichols Campus Library
PN 4738 ,K86 2007
The media effect : how the news influences politics and government
Willis, William James. (Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007)McNichols Campus Library
PN 4738 .W55 2007
Reporting from Washington : the history of the Washington press corps
Ritchie, Donald. (New York : Oxford University Press, c2005)PN 4888 .O25 R58 2005
When the press fails : political power and the news media from Iraq to Katrina
Bennett, W. Lance. (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007)McNichols Campus Library
PN 4738 .B37 2007
Journals
International Journal of Press/Politics
(1996-present)Sandra H. Wilson
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