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• The story of Edward Snowden is described in chapter 8. The “CitizenFour” documentary tells his story.
• Information is vital to an objective method of inquiry. Project Vote Smart provides a way to investigate political candidates.
• While it has some fun with its “truth-o-meter,” graphics, Politifact is a fact-checking site that has won a Pulitzer Prize.
• “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one,” said A.J. Liebling. “The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords” is a documentary that describes some of the history of African-American publishers. Read about it.
• Fact checking is one key to moving beyond a journalism of assertion and on to verification. Fact checking is a project of Annenberg Public Policy Center to verify claims made in public.
• Edited by Craig Silverman, “Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting” includes how to verify digital social media such as photos and videos.
• The Center for Science in the Public Interest “has long sought to educate the public, advocate government policies that are consistent with scientific evidence on health and environmental issues, and counter industry’s powerful influence on public opinion and public policies.” See more at www.cspinet.org/.
• Kevin Barnhurst, “The Interpretive Turn in News,” Journalism and Technological Change: Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Trends, pp. 111-114, Ed. Clemens Zimmerman and Martin Schreiber, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
• Andrew Cline, “Media/Political Bias”
• Katherine Fink and Michael Schudson, “The Rise of Contextual Journalism, 1950s-2000s,” Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism 15(1), pp. 3-20, 2014.
• Lucas Graves, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler, “Why Do Journalists Fact-Check? The Role of Demand- and Supply-Side Factors,” Midwest Political Science Association, March 30, 2015.
• Dan Murphy, “Joe McCarthy, Glenn Greenwald and Me,” The Christian Science Monitor, January 16, 2014.
• National Public Radio, “This is NPR. And these are the standards of our journalism,” NPR Ethics Handbook
• Laura Poitras, director, Citizenfour, Praxis Films, 2014.
• Justin Elliott and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR, 2015 “The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster”
• “Red Cross Demands Corrections to Our ‘Misleading’ Coverage. Here’s Our Response”
• “Special Report: The American Red Cross”
• “10 Serious Problems With ProPublica NPR Reporting on Red Cross”
• Reddit.com, “We're Glenn Greenwald and Janine Gibson of the Guardian US, and we’ve been breaking stories on the NSA Files since June. AUA!”
• A.O. Scott, “Intent on Defying an All-Seeing Eye,” The New York Times, October 23, 2014.
• Margaret Sullivan, “Facts, Truth ... and May the Best Man Win,” The New York Times, September 4, 2012.