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Newsworthiness

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Information most worthy of transformation into news stories

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News

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Process of gathering information and making narrative reports that offer selected frames of reference

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Ethnocentrism

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Reporters judge other countries and cultures on the basis of how “they live up to or imitate American practices and values”

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Responsible Capitalism

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Journalists sometimes naively assume that businesspeople compete with one another not primarily to maximize profits but “to create increased prosperity for all”

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Small-Towm Pastoralism

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Favoring the small over the large and the rural over the urban

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Individualism

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It rewards the rugged tenacity needed to confront and expose corruption

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Conflict of Interest

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Any situation in which journalists may stand to benefit personally from stories they produce

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Herd Journalism

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Reporters stake out a house, chase celebrities in packs, or follow a story in such herds that the entire profession comes under attack for invading people’s privacy

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Sound Bite

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The TV equivalent of a quote in print news; the part of a broadcast news report in which an expert, a celebrity, a victim or a person in the street responds to some aspect of an event or issue

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Public Journalism

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Helping public life go well; moves from detachment to being a fair-minded participant in public life; what “going right” is like; seeing people as a public, potential actors in arriving at democratic solutions to public problems