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Authors and Collaborators
Many partners contributed to this report.
The content analysis was designed by the Project in collaboration
with six of those partners, Lee Ann Brady of Princeton Survey
Research Associates International, Steve Lacy and Fred Fico
of The School of Journalism at Michigan State University,
William Evans and Jennings Bryant of The Institute for Communication
Research of the College of Communication & Information
Sciences as The University of Alabama, and Esther Thorson,
associate dean of graduate studies and research at the University
of Missouri School of Journalism. The coding of print media
(online and newspapers) was executed by a team at PSRAI under
the supervision of Brady. The coding of network TV) was executed
by a team at Michigan under the supervision of Lacy and Fico.
The coding of cable was executed by Alabama under the supervision
of Evans and Jenkins. All conclusions and analysis were then
sent to Thorson's team at Missouri for statistical testing.
Video tapes for content analysis were provided courtesy of
Video Monitoring Services. We would especially like to thank
Juan Hidalgo and Pro Sherman for their support.
Daniel Riffe, professor of journalism at Ohio University
consulted on the design of the sample
The chapter on newspapers was co-authored by Rick Edmonds
of the Poynter Institute. The rest of the chapters were written
by the staff of the Project.
Andrew Tyndall of ADT Research provided tapes, data and gave
particularly close reads and copious suggestions on the chapters
on network and cable TV.
David Vaina of the Project and Matt Carlson formerly of the
Project conducted the data aggregation for the newspaper and
online chapters. Atiba Pertilla conducted the data aggregation
for the cable and local television chapters. Tom Avila conducted
the data aggregation for the radio and network chapters. Dante
Chinni conducted the data aggregation for the ethnic, alternative
and magazine chapters.
Carter Cosgrove designed the website. Chris McMahon took the photos that appear on the site. David Vaina implemented
the design and construction of the site with the assistance
of Dante Chinni, Atiba Pertilla and Matt Carlson. Tom Avila
aided in the visual design of the website as well as of the
Executive Summary. Wendy Kelly of WLK Design published the
executive summary.
Amy Mitchell, PEJ's associate director and research director,
supervised the project. Tom Rosenstiel is the Project's director.
Evan Jenkins, a longtime journalist, currently a consulting
editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, was the copy editor.
More than twenty-five people served as readers of the chapters.
Among them are: Charles Bierbauer, Steve Brill, Merrill Brown,
John Currie, Wally Dean, Dale Willman, Osborne Elliott, Howard
Finberg, Paul Friedman, Bob Giles, Jeff Gralnick, Lawrence
Grossman, Alex Jones, Richard Karpel, Katie King, Bill Kovach,
Scott Libin, Larry McGill, Victor Navasky, George Niesen,
Bob Papper, Deborah Potter, Adam Powell, Henrik Rehbinder,
Lee Rainie, Alan Seraita, Abbey Scher, Frank Sesno, Al Stavitsky,
Roberto Suro and Andrew Tyndall.
A new feature this year, guest essays, accompany 6 of the
chapters. Bill Kovach wrote the essay on newspapers. Merrill
Brown wrote the essay on online. Andrew Tyndall wrote the
essay on network and cable news. Al Stavitsky wrote the essay
on radio news. Samir A. Husni wrote the essay on news magazines.
Bob Papper wrote the essay on local television news.
Their thoughtful insights and suggestions greatly improved
the chapters, but the readers are in no way responsible for
the analysis or narrative accounts in this report. Moreover,
the readers were not sources for information, unless explicitly
cited in footnotes. In no case did a reader serve as an anonymous
source for anything in the report.
Finally, the project could not have been completed without
the extraordinary support, both financially and personally,
of the Pew Charitable Trusts, particularly Don Kimelman, our
friend and colleague, and Rebecca Rimel, whose idea this report
was in the first place.
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