News & Newsmaking: Essays by Stephen Hess

By Stephen Hess

Book Overview

Over the last fifteen years, Stephen Hess has become a leading and much-quoted authority on Washington government and the media. In this volume, he presents a collection of his best essays on the media written over the past decade.
The book includes:
-""All the President's Reporters"" examines the White House press corps and the way it covers the president.
-""Leaks and Other Informal Communications"" is an insider's look at why government officials leak information to journalists.
-""The Sex Test"" asks whether it makes any difference if the news is written by men or women.
Addional collections of Hess' essays published by Brookings include International News & Foreign Correspondence (1996) and Presidents & the Presidency (1996).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815736339
• ISBN13: 9780815736332
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"