Context

  • Blog Post

    Jun 25 2009 9:20 AM

    Two Deaths, Two Contexts

    In Baghdad, Chancellor Keesling, a 25-year-old soldier from Indianapolis, shot and killed himself. In Tehran, Neda Agha Soltan, a 26-year-old student, was shot and killed as she watched a peaceful protest.

    Two very different deaths, two very different news stories, but both required context to express or arouse anything but pain and loss. More »

  • Behind the Story

    Jun 9 2009

    Making Sense of George Tiller

    Photo: Mike Hutmacher / The Wichita Eagle / AP Photo: Physician George Till ...

    By Eyal Press

    Learning from the last time a physician who performs abortions was murdered.

  • Fact Sheet

    Apr 1 2008

    How News is "Framed"

    By Sara Tiegreen and Elana Newman

    An overview of how news stories, traumatic and otherwise, are "framed," finding a general absence of context and recommending avenues for future research.

  • Fact Sheet

    Jan 1 2008

    The Effect of News "Frames"

    By Sara Tiegreen and Elana Newman

    An overview of current scholarship regarding how different, contextual approaches to reporting news influence consumers’ knowledge, perceptions and opinions, and the implications for researchers and for journalists.

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