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The role of the news media in the governance agenda

Watchdog, agenda-setter and gate-keeper

The World Bank Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at KSG are co-sponsoring a Harvard University Workshop on “The Role of the News Media in the Governance Agenda: Watch-dog, Agenda-Setter, and Gatekeepers.”  The event will be held from 9am Thursday 29^th May until midday Saturday 31^st May 2008 in the Penthouse at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Integrated conference pack containing all papers (Large file)

Separate workshop papers

1.1 The roles of the news media in the governance agenda -Pippa Norris (Harvard) and Sina Odugbemi (World Bank)

1.2 Diagnostic tools and performance indicators -Andrew Puddenphatt (Global Partners)

2.1 Considering the media's framing and agenda-setting roles in state's responsiveness to natural crisis and disasters -Susan D. Moeller (University of Maryland)

2.2 Agenda-setting and donor responsiveness to humanitarian crisis and development aid -Douglas A. van Belle (University of Wellington)

3.1 The media as watchdog -Sheila Coronel (Columbia University)

3.2 Government performance, collective accountability, and the news media -Katrin Voltmer (University of Leeds)

4.1 The structure and functions of the broadcasting industry as a public forum -Marius Dragomir (Open Society Foundation)

4.2 Election campaigns, balance, and the mass media- Holli Semetko (Emory University)

4.3 Limits on press freedom and regime support -Pippa Norris (Harvard) and Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan)

4.4 Polarization and media: The problem of the governance agenda in post-conflict societies -Monroe E. Price (University of Pennsylvania),  Ibrahim al Marashi  (Bahcesehir University) and Nicole A. Stremlau

5.1 Sub-Saharan Africa  -Wisdom Tettey  (University of Calgary),

5.2 Press and the public sphere in contemporary Latin America -Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University),

5.3 The role of the media as watch-dogs, agenda-setters and gate-keepers in Arab States -Lawrence Pintak  (American University of Cairo)

6.1 Policy options strengthening the roles of journalists as watch-dogs, agenda-setters and gate-keepers -Sina Odugbemi and Pippa Norris