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12:00 AM  Mar. 15, 2005
Media Credibility Bibliography
By David Shedden (More articles by this author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

http://www.poynter.org/ethicsbiblio
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ONLINE RESOURCES

ASNE: Perspectives of the Public and the Press Report (1999)
http://www.asne.org/kiosk/reports/99reports/
1999examiningourcredibility/index.htm

ASNE: Building Reader Trust Report (2000)
http://www.asne.org/credibilityhandbook/brt/contents.htm

ASNE: The Newspaper Credibility Handbook (2001)
http://www.asne.org/credibilityhandbook/contents.htm

APME: Credibility in Action Report (2001)
http://www.apme-credibility.org/CredibilityReport.pdf

APME: National Credibility Roundtables Project
http://www.apme-credibility.org

APME: Talking with Your Town Report (2002)
http://www.apme-credibility.org/CredibilityGuidebook.pdf

Best Practices for Newspaper Journalists
(Bob Haiman, Freedom Forum, 2000)
http://www.freedomforum.org/
publications/diversity/bestpractices/bestpractices.pdf

Committee of Concerned  Journalists
http://www.concernedjournalists.org/

"Credibility: Does it Drive the Bottom Line?"
Presstime article by Stephen Hess, August 1998.
http://www.naa.org/presstime/9807/cred.html

Credibility Initiatives Show Promise, but Must be Long-Term
(ASNE, 2000)
http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=1420

The Credibility Problem
http://www.copydesk.org/credibility.htm
American Copy Editors Society, 1999.

Independent Press Councils
http://www.presscouncils.org/

"Leading the Way Out of the Credibility Crisis"
ASNE speech by Sandra Mims Rowe, April 1, 1998.
Posted on the Web by the Freedom Forum.
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=7668

"Media and the Masses"
Presstime article by Tim Lewthwaite, May 1997.
http://www.naa.org/presstime/9705/p597r.html

New York Times:
Statement on Confidential News Sources
(Feb. 25, 2004)
http://www.nytco.com/company-properties-times-sources.html
Ethical Journalism Handbook (Sept. 2004)
http://www.nytco.com/pdf/NYT_Ethical_Journalism_0904.pdf
Guidelines on Integrity
http://www.nytco.com/company-properties-times-integrity.html
Siegal Committee Report (July 2003)
http://www.nytco.com/pdf/siegal-report050205.pdf 
See Also:
Changes at the New York Times(Journalism.org, 2003)
http://journalism.org/resources/briefing/archive/blair.asp
Columbia Journalism Review stories (2003)
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/4/
Beyond the Firestorm: Fury and the Future
(Poynter Online, Karen Brown Dunlap, 2004)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=61970

Online Credibility Survey (2004)
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spe/credibility/
Belo Interactive, the Associated Press Managing Editors,
and the Ford Foundation

Poynter Resources about Anonymous Sources
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=49&aid=64013

Poynter Online's Guide to Accuracy
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=36518

Poynter Online's Journalism & Business Values articles
http://poynter.org/subject.asp?id=47

Poynter Online's Leading Lines Column
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=34

Poynter Online's Report:Journalism Without Scandal (July 16, 2003)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=41405

The Project for Excellence in Journalism
http://www.journalism.org/

"The Public and the Media: The Credibility Gap Revisited, 1985-1995"
Presstime article by Stephen Hess, November 1995.
http://www.naa.org/presstime/96/PTIME/novhess.html

The Readership Institute
http://www.readership.org/

The State of the News Media
(Journalism.org, 2004)
http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2004/

The State of the News Media
(Journalism.org, 2005)
http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2005/

USA Today Report on the investigation
of former USA Today reporter Jack Kelley
(April 2004)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/index-main.htm

The Washington Post's Policies on Sources,
Quotations, Attribution, and Datelines
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=53&aid=61244
Posted on Poynter Online, February 2004.

We Mean Business
(AJR, 2004)
http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=3668

Web Credibility Project (Stanford University)
http://www.webcredibility.org/

Poynter Online -- Additional Articles:

Back in the Newsroom: What We Did
(Poynter Online, Jeannine Guttman, 2003)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=56345

Getting it Right: A Passion for Accuracy
(Poynter Online, Chip Scanlan, 2003)
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=52&aid=17939

Journalists Who Lie, Journalists Who Die
(Poynter Online, Betty Medsger, 2004)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=64562

Pee in the Cup: A Plan for the Moral Auditing of News
(Poynter Online, Roy Peter Clark, 2004)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=64685

Resources about Corrections:

Accepting the Blame
(Poynter Online, Jerry Ceppos, 2000)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=5096

Correction Confessions
(Poynter Online, Kelly McBride, 2003)
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=53&aid=18953

Corrections: Discussion and Debate

(Poynter Online, 2003)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=41438

Corrections: Discussion Starter
(Poynter Online, 2003)
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=41423

Credibility and Journalism on the Internet
How Online Newspapers Handle Errors and Corrections

(AEJMC Paper, 1999)
http://list.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9909B&L=aejmc&P=R15182

Delusions of Accuracy
(CJR, 2003)
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/4/times-hart.asp

Details Matter: Accuracy
(ASNE, 2002)
http://www.asne.org/credibilityhandbook/detailsmatter.htm

To Err Is Human, To Correct Divine
(AJR, 1998)
http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1612

Errors on Air
(AJR, 2003)
http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=3094

The Facts About Corrections
(Washington Post, 2003)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Getting a Fix on Online Corrections
(ASNE, 2001)
http://www.asne.org/kiosk/editor/01.march/bressers1.htm

Handling Corrections
(CJR, 1999)
http://www.cjr.org/archives.asp?url=/99/4/poll.asp

BOOKS

Brogan, Patrick. Spiked:
The Short Life and Death of the National News Council.

New York: Priority Press, 1985.

Bugeja, Michael J. Living Ethics:
Developing Values in Mass Communication.

Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.

Cappella, Joseph N. and Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Clark, Roy Peter and Cole C. Campbell, eds.
The Values and Craft of American Journalism.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Downie, Leonard and Robert Kaiser.
The News about the News: American Journalism in Peril.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Ettema, James S. and Theodore L. Glasser.
Custodians of Conscience:
Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Fallows, James. Breaking the News:
How the Media Undermine American Democracy.

New York: Pantheon, 1995.

Fry, Don, ed. Believing the News.
St. Petersburg: Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 1985.

Fuller, Jack. News Values.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Goldstein, Tom. Killing the Messenger:
100 Years of Media Criticism.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.

Hachten, William A. The Troubles of Journalism.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

Klaidman, Stephen and Tom L. Beauchamp.
The Virtuous Journalist.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Kovach, Bill and Tom Rosenstiel.
The Elements of Journalism.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.

----. Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media.
New York: The Century Foundation, 1999.

Lambeth, Edmund B. Committed Journalism.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Mindich, David T. Z. Just the Facts:
How Objectivity Came to Define American Journalism.

New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Reeves, Richard. What the People Know: Freedom of the Press.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Roberts, Gene, ed. Leaving Readers Behind:
The Age of Corporate Newspapering
.
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001.


POLLS and REPORTS

American Society of Newspaper Editors.
"Examining Our Credibility."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE and Urban & Associates, 1999.

----. "Journalism Values Handbook."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE Ethics and Values Committee
and The Harwood Group, 1995.

----. "Journalism Values Institute: Insights on the Values."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE Ethics and Values Committee
and The Harwood Group, 1996.

----. "Newspaper Credibility:
206 Practical Approaches to Heighten Reader Trust."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE Credibility Committee, April 1986.

----. "Newspaper Credibility: Building Reader Trust."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE Credibility Committee and
Minnesota Opinion Research Inc., April 1985.

----. "The Newspaper Credibility Handbook."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE Journalism Credibility Project, 2001.

----. "Timeless Values:
Staying True to Journalistic Principles in the Age of New Media."
Washington, D.C.: ASNE New Media and Values Committee
and The Harwood Group, April 1995.

Associated Press Managing Editors Association.
"Credibility: Maintaining the Vigil."
Cincinnati, Ohio: APME Professional Standards Committee, 1986.

----. "Journalists and Readers: Bridging the Credibility Gap."
Minneapolis, MN: MORI Research, Inc., October 1985.

"Begging Your Pardon:
Corrections and Corrections Policies at Twelve U.S. Newspapers."
Gannett Center for Media Studies, 1985.

"News Junkies, News Critics."
Washington, D.C.: Newseum / Media Studies Center /
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, April 1997.

"The People, The Press and Their Leaders."
Times Mirror Center Survey.
Washington, DC: Times Mirror Center, May 1995.

"Profile of the American News Consumer."
News in the Next Century Project.
Washington, DC: RTNDF, 1996.

"Striking the Balance: Audience Interests,
Business Pressures and Journalists' Values."
Washington, D.C.: The Pew Research Center, March 1999.

"The Times Poll, Media Survey."
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Times, March 1993.

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