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Search results for "press coverage" ...
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The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff examine the press coverage during the civil rights movement. The book is the story of how media members' coverage of the civil rights movement informed people of what was going on, and spurred them to action. It details how the national press picked up on the story, which had initially been reported mostly by black reporters and liberal Southern editors.
Tags: Race relations; civil rights; media; press coverage; Martin Luther King; equal rights; national media
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Juvenile Court Journal; Open Court Stories; Selena Underwood Stories
This series of stories represents the "culmination of years of work" by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter Barbara White Stack to "crusade for open hearing in juvenile court." Stack "came to believe secret hearing regarding abused and neglected children precluded comprehensive coverage of the issues....These stories show that getting access is possible, in addition to illustrating what is possible when access is denied." The system turned out to be fraught with problems, and the Post-Gazette challenged the secrecy rules in court -- ultimately prevailing when they won their appeal in Pennsylvania Superior Court, effectively opening the state's juvenile court system to the public and the press.
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The Christal Jones Story
The Free Press discovers that teenage girls from Vermont have been "hooked on heroin and whisked away to New York" where they have been forced into prostitution. Many of the young women have been in state custody, but the state lacks "the money, manpower or wherewithal to keep track of its incorrigible charges," the investigative series reveals. Some of the stories shed light on the "heroin epidemic that consumed many young Vermonters," and other articles focus on the deviant activity of a Burlington businessman who has been taking tens of thousands of pornographic pictures, some of underage girls. The coverage starts with a story about the death of 16-year-old Christal Jones, a ward of the state who died in a seedy New York apartment, and whose fate has been kept from the public by the state officials.
Tags: drugs; drug addicts; heroin; prostitution; abuse; pornography; juvenile justice; youth; FOI requests; crime; rape
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"Investigative Reporting"
Washington Post veteran Bob Woodward speaks to the National Press Club about the state of investigative reporting since the 1960s, the public backlash against the press, the coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and the future of news reporting. Woodward also answers questions from the audience.
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Lawsuit: The Daily News, The NYT Co., Newsday, A.P. and the NY Press Club vs Rudolph Guiliani, Howard Safir and the City of New York
Media organizations are challenging the legal rights of the NYC Police Dept. for its unconstitutional abridgement of newsgathering practices by journalists. During the past three years, the press have repeatedly been placed in "pens" limiting access to news events. Journalists and photographers were increasingly arrested. The problem has been addressed after litigation was threatened.
Tags: FOIA NYPD press pens First Amendment news coverage freedom of speech
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How The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Independent Counsel Law Screwed Bruce Babbitt
Washington Monthly looks into the reasons for and press coverage of the House investigation of Bruce Babbitt. The investigation centers on whether or not Babbitt altered policy on Indian reservation gaming in exchange for campaign donations. The article alleges that there is little evidence to support the accusations.
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After the Wall documents the state of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The author claims that the "new" Germany is a troubled nation uncertain of its own identity, dependent on approval from the outside world, and resentful of its own size and weight. (June 1995)
Tags: Fisher After the wall Contest entry Nazi Communism Government Foreign press coverage BOOK
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Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (Cambridge, Mass.) investigates press coverage of the nuclear weapons-production scandal; examines how the story broke, and explores what new role the press plays in the future of U.S. nuclear weapons policy,
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Transport Life Health Coverage Fell Short of Some Agents' Claims
Asbury Park Press investigates insurance agents who fraudulently promised better health insurance than the company delivered, leaving policy holders with thousands of dollars worth of unpaid medical bills, June 3, 1990.
Tags: NJ; Transport Life; Medical Insurance
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United Press International reprints its coverage of the hijacking of TWA flight 847, 1985.
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