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Democracy’s Detectives

The Economics of Investigative Journalism

James T. Hamilton

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$36.00 • £28.95 • €32.50

ISBN 9780674545502

Publication Date: 10/10/2016

384 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

2 line illustrations, 38 tables

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James T. Hamilton is Hearst Professor of Communication at Stanford University.

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At Washington Monthly, read Jay Hamilton’s comparison of Donald Trump’s hostility towards the press with Richard Nixon’s in the years preceding Watergate
Read Professor Hamilton’s discussion with the Atlantic about how the economics of journalism explains today’s “news bubbles”
Read an interview with Hamilton in Columbia Journalism Review
On Texas Public Radio’s The Source, listen to Hamilton discuss the “5 Ws” of journalism: who, what, when, where, and “who is paying for this?”
At MediaShift, read an interview with Hamilton in which he argues that investigative reporting generates social returns that far outweigh its initial costs
Read the American Press Institute’s interview with Hamilton
At Columbia Journalism Review, read Hamilton’s response to a recent case in which the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer was ordered to pay $6 million in punitive damages after a 2010 investigative series was found to have libeled a state firearms investigator
Read the News & Observer’s response to the book
At the Nieman Foundation for Journalism’s Nieman Reports, read Hamilton’s in-depth analysis of the Washington Post’s 1999 “Deadly Force” series—coverage of police violence against civilians that won a Pulitzer Prize, and prompted extensive policy reforms
At Five Books, read Hamilton’s own recommendations for books about the economics behind the news

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2017 Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

2017 Goldsmith Book Prize for Best Academic Book, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government

2016 Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism & Mass Communication Research Award, Kappa Tau Alpha

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