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THE IMPACT OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ON PUBLIC OPINION AND POLICYMAKING TARGETING TOXIC WASTE |
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| Authors: | PROTESS, DAVID L. COOK, FAY LOMAX CURTIN, THOMAS R. GORDON, MARGARET T. LEFF, DONNA R. McCOMBS, MAXWELL E. MILLER, PETER |
| Affiliation: | Associate Professor in the Medill School of Journalism and the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research (CUAPR) Associate Professor in the School of Education and CUAPR a CUAPR Research Fellow Director, CUAPR Associate Professor at the Medill School of Journalism and CUAPR Associate Professor in the School of Speech and CUAPR, all at Northwestern University Professor and Chairman of the Department of Journalism at the University of Texas |
| Abstract: | This article reports the fourth in a continuing series of casestudies that explore the impact of news media investigativejournalism on the general public, policymakers, and public policy.The media disclosures in this field experiment had limited effectson the general public but were influential in changing the attitudesof policymakers. The study describes how changes in public policymakingresulted from collaboration between journalists and governmentofficials. The authors develop a model that is a beginning steptoward specifying the cond6itions under which media investigationsinfluence public attitudes and agendas. |
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