2005

Thursday, April 14th

7:00pm

All the News That's Fit to Sell

James T. Hamilton is Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science at Duke University.

His book “All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News” (Princeton Press, 2004) examines how economic forces affect media content. He is also the author of “Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming”, which won the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Book Prize, and a recipient of the David N. Kershaw award for distinguished public policy research.

SPONSORED BY

The Program in Mass Communications & The Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley

LOCATION

Library - North Gate Hall

Get directions to Library - North Gate Hall