Good news from a bad neighborhood: Toward an alternative to the discourse of urban pathology

Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 835-856

  Ettema, James S ^a   Peer, Limor ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/107769909607300406     Document Type: Article

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18. See Arthur Charity, Doing Public Journalism (NY: Guilford Press, 1995); Edmund B. Lambeth, "Review: Good News, Social Ethics, & the Press," Media Development 41 (1994): 50-51; Davis Merritt, Public Journalism and Public Life: Why Telling the News is Not Enough (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995); Jay Rosen, "Politics, Vision, and the Press: Toward a Public Agenda for Journalism," in The New News vs. the Old News: Press and Politics in the 1990s/Essays by Jay Rosen and Paul Taylor (NY: Twentieth Century Fund, 1992); Jay Rosen, "Making things more public: On the political responsibility of the media intellectual," Critical Studies in Mass Communication 11 (December 1994): 363-88; Jay Rosen, "Public Journalism: First principles," in Public Journalism: Theory and Practice., ed. Jay Rosen and Davis Merritt (Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation, 1994); Alicia C. Shepard, "The Gospel of Public Journalism," American Journalism Review 16 (September 1994): 28-35; Yankelovich, Coming to Public Judgment.
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32. 18. The students were systematically trained in the method of content analysis for this project. After a discussion and demonstration of the coding process, the students were given the same set of ten stories to code individually. The data from these stories were compared and discussed, and the problems detected in the coding process were reviewed. After the training was complete, each student independently coded between 10 and 12 stories a week for 6 weeks. For the purpose of assessing intercoder reliability, about 20 randomly selected stories each week were coded by two coders. This procedure yielded a sample of 15% of all stories from which reliability estimates were made. A spot check of those stories indicates an acceptable level of reliability (coefficients range from k=. 70 to k=1.0 with mean of k=.89).
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