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After an earlier study found the public's dominant expectation of the press was to be a good neighbor & not a watchdog, the present study set out to determine what being a good neighbor meant for different segments of the public. The analysis revealed that being a good neighbor was strongly valued by women, African Americans, & Hispanics. Many in these groups wanted more coverage of education, health & medicine, science, & arts & culture. The segment of the public that expected the press to be a good neighbor was concerned about crime & social issues, & television was viewed as best able to address these concerns. This study fills a void in the empirical public journalism literature that has primarily focused on journalists' opinions, the content of public journalism projects, & the impact of public journalism projects on the public. Unlike most of the previous literature, which has ignored the public's opinions about journalistic practices associated with public journalism, the present study connects the public's expectations of local news as a good neighbor with techniques that epitomize public journalism, that is, caring about the community, reporting on interesting people & groups, understanding the local community, & offering solutions. Tables, References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2006 by the President and the Fellows of Harvard College.]

After an earlier study found the public's dominant expectation of the press was to be a good neighbor and not a watchdog, the present study set out to determine what being a good neighbor meant for different segments of the public. The analysis revealed that being a good neighbor was strongly valued by women, African Americans, and Hispanics. Many in these groups wanted more coverage of education, health and medicine, science, and arts and culture. The segment of the public that expected the press to be a good neighbor was concerned about crime and social issues, and television was viewed as best able to address these concerns. This study fills a void in the empirical public journalism literature that has primarily focused on journalists' opinions, the content of public journalism projects, and the impact of public journalism projects on the public. Unlike most of the previous literature, which has ignored the public's opinions about journalistic practices associated with public journalism, the present study connects the public's expectations of local news as a good neighbor with techniques that epitomize public journalism, that is, caring about the community, reporting on interesting people and groups, understanding the local community, and offering solutions.

A survey found the public does not strongly endorse traditional journalism norms of watchdog and rapid reporting. Furthermore, when opinions of survey respondents and journalists were compared, survey respondents were significantly more likely to say providing a community forum, a public journalism principle, was extremely important. African Americans, Hispanics, women, and adults with less education and income strongly endorsed the public journalism principle of offering solutions to problems. A factor analysis of thirteen public and traditional journalism roles and characteristics revealed four dimensions of journalism as perceived by the public: good neighbor, watchdog, unbiased and accurate, and fast.

Bringing deliberation to the democratic dialogue / James S. Fishkin and Robert C. Luskin -- The delegates' experience / Tom W. Smith -- We the people : the contours of lay political discourse / Roderick Hart and Sharon Jarvis -- Through the eyes of a true believer / David R. Boldt -- A (largely missed) learning opportunity / David "Buzz" Merritt -- Local television coverage of the NIC / Amy Reynolds -- Prologue to diverging patterns of election year coverage / Dixie Shipp Evatt -- Effects of NIC media coverage among the public / Kenneth A. Rasinski, Norman M. Bradburn, and Douglas Lauen -- Deliberative polling--fitting the tool to the job / Robert P. Daves -- The cultivation of conversation / Susan Herbst -- Enhancing grassroots democracy / Maxwell McCombs and Amy Reynolds

This study examines the Network Agenda Setting Model, the third level of agenda-setting theory. It seeks to expand the model's scope by testing five years (2007-2011) of aggregated data from national news media and polls. The study finds evidence that the news media bundled issue objects and made them salient in the public's mind. Findings of the study also demonstrate strong network correlations of issue salience among different types of news media.

Data obtained via 1995 election interviews with 299 residents of Pamplona, Spain, are used to explore the hypotheses that an increment in media use for political information corresponds to (1) an increment in community consensus about social priorities (first-level agenda setting); & (2) an increment in community consensus about politicians' attributes (second-level agenda setting). Analysis of first-level effects, largely replicating US research, shows that a trend toward consensus in an agenda of issues is also present among the Spanish public. Analysis of the agendas of substantive & affective characteristics of political candidates shows that the pattern of increasing social consensus is also present at the second level of agenda setting. Increasing consensus in the affective agenda of candidates' characteristics among different population subgroups suggests that the news media, especially TV, contribute to more homogeneous evaluations of rival political candidates, leveling out ideological changes in democratic societies. 1 Table, 4 Figures, 14 References. Adapted from the source document.