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    How Strong is the Case for Quality?

    by Atiba Pertilla and Todd belt For years, news consultants have told broadcasters that the spinach in local TV news mattered, too. Certainly they advised clients about whom to hire, how to write teases, and even the most audience-friendly hairstyles. But they also warned that while gimmicks can get viewers to sample a station, it’s […]

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    Politics and TV Can Mix

    By Tom Rosenstiel and Dave Iverson, Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2002. Dave Iverson is director of Best Practices in Journalism. In an uneasy time, just one thing about this November’s elections can bereliably predicted. Until election night, the primary medium by whichAmericans get news — local television — will mostly ignore the politicalcampaigns. With […]

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    Methodology

    Methodology The local television news project was begun in 1998 in order to study the relationship between content and viewership. Using criteria established by a team of industry professionals, we created measurements for analyzing these newscasts according to basic variables of quality and comparing those to accepted measurements of commercial success. Newscasts are studied in […]

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    Final Topline and Methodology

    Audience Interest By Question   How interested are you in news reports on the following topics?     Very Interested Somewhat Interested Not Too Interested Not At All Interested Don’t Know/ Refused 1 Issues and activities in local government and politics     34 46 8 11 1 2 Issues and activities in state government […]

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    Separate But Equal: Comparing Local News in English and Spanish

    By Laurien Alexandre and Henrik Rehbinder It’s the mid-point of the 6:30 p.m. broadcast, time for the day’s financial update on the local news. Co-anchor Eduardo Quezada of LA’s KMEX fades into the background as a scroll-down list fills the screen. The Mexican peso is up, Brazil’s real is down, and so is Venezuela’s bolivar. […]

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    College Students and the Web

    Data provided by comScore Networks detailing the kinds of Web sites that are particularly appealing to college students, and the kinds of sites where a high proportion of shoppers are college students.

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    Sources of Basic Human Rights Ideas: A Christian Perspective

    4:00 p.m. University of Chicago Divinity School Chicago, Illinois Dr. Max Stackhouse is director of the Kuyper Center for Public Theology and Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author and editor of numerous books on a wide variety of topics including most recently (with Peter Paris) a three-volume […]

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    Stem Cells & Clones: Theological Perspectives on Biomedical Research

    9:30am – 12:30pm University of Chicago Divinity School Chicago, Illinois Gilbert Meilaender is the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. His work focuses upon theological and medical ethics. In 2001 he was appointed to the President’s Council on Bioethics, which recently issued a major report entitled “Human Cloning and Human […]

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    Would a U.S. Attack on Iraq Constitute a Just War?

    Scholars of War Ethics Disagree As Congress debates authorization of military action against Iraq, scholars of war ethics continue to discuss under what circumstances an attack by the U.S. would constitute a “just war.” CONTACT Mary SchultzCommunications Manager202.419.4556mschultz@pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/religion Earlier this week William Galston, Michael Walzer, John Kelsay and Gerard Bradley explored the conditions for a […]