New Long Journalism
The New Long Journalism Project takes measurements of
news media content, including news reports and their visual presentation, to
track the long-term trends in what “news” means. The changes have
been documented so far for more than 100 years of newspaper reporting, 25 years
of network evening newscasts, 20 years of National Public Radio news programming,
and the 2001 baseline for newspapers on the Internet.
The following studies by Kevin G. Barnhurst are available for
download (in PDF format).
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Research on Newspapers
The Great
American Newspaper. American Scholar 60 (Winter 1991): 106–112.
With
Diana C. Mutz. American Journalism and the Decline of Event-Centered Reporting.
Journal of Communication 47.4 (Autumn 1997): 27–53.
With John
C. Nerone. Design Changes in U.S. Front Pages, 1885 – 1985. Journalism
Quarterly 68 (Winter 1991): 796–804.
Second
author with John Nerone. Visual Mapping & Cultural Authority: Design
Change in U.S. Newspapers, 1920 – 1940. Journal of Communication 45.2
(Spring 1995): 9–43.
With John
Nerone. The President Is Dead: American News Photography & the New Long
Journalism. In Pictures in the Public Sphere, 60–92. Urbana: University
of Illinois Press, 1999.
Research on Television News
Second author
with Catherine A. Steele. The Journalism of Opinion: Network Coverage in U.S.
Presidential Campaigns, 1968 – 1988. Critical Studies in Mass Communication
13.3 (September 1996): 187–209.
With Catherine
A. Steele. Image Bite News: The Coverage of Elections on U.S. Television, 1968 – 1992. Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 2.1 (February 1997):
40–58.
Research on Radio News
The Makers
of Meaning: National Public Radio and the New Long Journalism, 1980 – 2000. Political Communication 20.1 (January–March 2003): 1–22.
Queer Political News: Election-year Coverage of the LGBT Communities on National
Public Radio, 1992 – 2000. Journalism Theory,
Practice & Criticism 4.1 (February 2003): 5–28.
Research on Internet News
News Geography & Monopoly: The Form of Reports on U.S. Newspaper Internet Sites. Journalism Studies 3.4 (November 2002): 477–89.
Technology and the Changing Idea of News: An Analysis of Content on U.S. Newspaper Internet Sites. In Reflections of Power: Critical Perspectives on U.S. Journalism History in the 20th Century, Ed. William S. Solomon. New York: SUNY Press, forthcoming.
Research on News Ideology
News Ideology in the Twentieth Century. In Diffusion of the News Paradigm, 1850–2000, pp. 239–62. Ed. Svennik Høyer (University of Oslo) and Horst Pöttker (University of Dortmund). Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordicom, 2005.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Based on the studies above.
Chapter 1. Long: The Length of News (View as HTML)
Chapter 2. Who: People in the
News (View as HTML)
Chapter 3. What: Events in the
News (View as HTML)
Chapter 4. Where: Locations in the News (View as HTML)
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