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title: "Who Did the Study"
description: "Meet the 2000 Local TV News Project Team This study was conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a journalists’ group in Washington, D.C., affiliated with the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The scholar team that developed the methodology included Lee Ann Brady of Princeton Survey Research […]"
date: "2000-10-01"
authors:
  - name: "Benjamin Wormald"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2000/10/01/who-did-the-study-2/"
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# Who Did the Study

**Meet the 2000 Local TV News Project Team**

This study was conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a journalists' group in Washington, D.C., affiliated with the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The scholar team that developed the methodology included Lee Ann Brady of Princeton Survey Research Associates; Marion Just, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College; Michael Robinson, Ph.D., formerly of Georgetown University; Ann Crigler, Ph.D., Director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, and Sherrie Mazingo, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota. Todd Belt of USC measured the ratings trends.

Evan Jenkins edited the articles. Researchers at Princeton Survey Research Associates coded the newscasts and prepared the initial statistical data under the supervision of Brady. Abigail Sturges designed the layout and graphics. Atiba Pertilla and Chris Galdieri of PEJ were the project researchers.

[]**Design Team**

The following local news professionals developed the criteria of quality for this study and signed off on major decisions:

**John Cardenas**
News Director, WBNS, Columbus, Ohio

**John Corporon**
Board of Governors, Overseas Press Club

**Randy Covington**
News Director, WIS TV, Columbia, S. C.

**Marty Haag**
Vice President, Audience Research & Development

**Natalie Jacobson
**Principal Anchor, WCVB TV, Boston

**Alice Main
**former Executive Producer, WLS TV, Chicago
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Gordon Peterson**
Principal Anchor, WUSA TV, Washington, D.C.

**Jose Rios
**Vice President of News, KTTV, Los Angeles

**Dan Rosenheim**
News Director, KPIX TV, San Francisco

**Jim Snyder
**Retired Vice President of News, Post Newsweek Stations

**Kathy Williams
**News Director, WKYC TV, Cleveland
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Gary Wordlaw
**President and General Manager, WTVH TV, Syracuse

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