Background
Smith, Conrad Glenn Page was born on February 14, 1940 in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Son of Harold Theodor Uhr and Althea (Page) Smith.
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Media and Apocalypse: News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and Loma Prieta Earthquake (Contributions in Political Science)
( This book is a critical examination of how newspaper an...)
This book is a critical examination of how newspaper and television journalists reported three catastrophes. The focus is on the processes by which journalists identified news sources and gathered data, on the professional values of the journalists and on the ways that those values contributed to or interfered with good reporting. The book is based on examination of several thousand newspaper and television stories, on surveys of more than 600 journalists and their sources, on evaluations of news accounts by independent experts, on personal visits to the sites of the catastrophes, and on interviews with more than 100 reporters, correspondents, producers, editors, and their sources. The scholarly goal of the book is to provide a theoretical understanding of the process by which reporters gather information for these kinds of stories and thus to identify changes in the journalistic routine that might encourage more accurate and comprehensive coverage of public issues. He shows how television reports sometimes influence the ways print reporters structure their stories, an effect he calls journalistic priming. He examines the ways in which Pulitzer Prize-winning stories are different from others, and attempts to integrate reporters' and sources' comments with the theoretical literature. This is the first book-length effort that uses a single research design to compare how both print and television journalists covered several major events, and to examine the interrelationship between the television and newspaper reporting. Other scholars often ignore one or the other, as though the two media operated independently.
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(Media and Apocalypse: News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Loma Prieta Earthquake) Author: Conrad G. Smith published on (October, 1992)
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Conrad Glenn Page Smith
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Bachelor of Science, Ohio State University, 1969. Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Temple University, 1981.
Career
Postal clerk United States Postal Service, Columbus, Ohio, 1965-1967. Film director KWSU-television, Pullman, Washington, 1971-1975. Instructor, then assistant professor Idaho State University, Pocatello, 1977-1981.
Assistant professor Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1981-1983. Assistant professor, then associate professor Ohio State University, Columbus, 1983-1996. Professor, chair department communications and mass media University Wyoming, Laramie, since 1996.
Expert witness, consultant KHQ-television, Spokane, 1978. Lecturer media relations United States Forest Service, Marana, Arizona, since 1992.
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Media and Apocalypse: News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and Loma Prieta Earthquake (Contributions in Political Science)
( This book is a critical examination of how newspaper an...)
- (Media and Apocalypse: News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Loma Prieta Earthquake) Author: Conrad G. Smith published on (October, 1992)
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Media and Apocalypse: News Coverage of the Yellowstone Forest Fires, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, and Loma Prieta Earthquake (Contributions in Political Science)
Membership
With United States Army, 1963-1965. Member Sierra Club (chairman service trip subcommittee since 1998).
Connections
Married Sophronia Suzanne Albright, January 21, 1963. Children: Melisande, Deirdre.
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American
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1981
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1965 - 1967
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1971 - 1975
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1977 - 1981
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1983 - 1996
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1996