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This study uses a functionalist perspective to investigate the political struggle between Theodore Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst, focusing on Roosevelt's 1906 "muckrake" speech. Hearst spent most of the Progressive Era running for president and battling Roosevelt over issues like trust-busting and the anthracite coal strike. Roosevelt recognized Hearst as his most powerful opponent; part of the president's response was the muckrake speech. The manifest function of the speech was to slow Hearst politically, but its latent function was a delegitimization of all muckrakers while the president solidified control over the direction of reform.

Introduction: Examining the terrain / Eric Freedman & Mark Neuzil -- Part I. Habitat, conservation, and restoration -- The dam dilemma for fisheries management in the Great Lakes / Daniel B. Hayes, Robert McLaughlin, Brian Roth & Lisa Peterson -- Irrigation in the Great Lakes Basin : prospects and conflicts / B. Timothy Heinmiller -- Artificial reefs and reef restoration in the Laurentian Great Lakes / Edward F. Roseman, Jeremy Pritt & Matthew McLean -- Part II. Extinction & survival -- Georgian Bay, Lake Huron : turtles and their wetland habitat in a changing landscape / Chantel Markle & Patricia Chow-Fraser -- Framing extinction : societal attitudes toward the passenger pigeon in editorials and opinion pieces / Bruno Takahashi, Ran Duan, Apoorva Joshi, Anthony Van Witsen & Eric Freedman -- Recovering the ecology of fear : cascading effects of gray wolf predation and competition in a Great Lakes Basin forest / David G. Flagel -- Linear corridors and predator movement dynamics in the Great Lakes Basin / Victoria M. Donovan & Jesse N. Popp -- Part III. Pollution, climate change, and invasive species -- Toxicants in the Great Lakes : living with a toxic legacy while managing for chemicals of emerging concern / Dalma Martinovic-Weigelt, Heiko L. Schoenfuss & Jane R. Feely -- Water quality in the Great Lakes : interactions between nutrient pollution, invasive species, and climate change / Gaston E. Small -- Emerald ash borer, black ash, and Native American basketmaking : invasive insects, forest ecosystems and cultural practices / Therese M. Poland, Maria R. Emery, Tina Ciaramitaro, Ed Pigeon & Angie Pigeon -- Part IV. Public policy -- Legislating the Great Lakes : socially constructing water through congressional discourse / Theresa R. Castor -- Conservation authorities in Ontario : key players in the governance of invasive and endangered species / Andrea Olive -- Citizen engagement, interpretation, and resource management in the Great Lakes Basin / Gail Vander Stoep -- 7 indigenous principles for successful cooperation in Great Lakes conservation initiatives / Kyle P. Whyte, Nicholas J. Reo, Deborah McGregor, M.A. (Peggy) Smith, James F. Jenkins & Kathleen A. Rubio -- Part V. Conclusions -- Through the crystal ball / Mark Neuzil & Eric Freedman.

Environmental crises confront Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.The implications of these crises cross sensitive and disputednational borders and may affect economic, political, and culturalrelationships on a vast geographic scale. At the same time, thecountries' domestic press systems are subject to a range of legal,quasi-official, political, and economic constraints that discourage— and sometimes punish — or prevent aggressive but fair, balanced,and ethical news coverage of environmental controversies.This study uses content analysis of news stories and interviewswith journalists to explore how two independent Western news organizations,US-based EurasiaNet.org and UK-based Institute forWar & Peace Reporting, tried to fill the news and information voidleft by constraints on domestic media during a three-year period.Among the variables analyzed are news sources (experts, advocates,and non-experts), fairness and balance, and article topics.

This study examines the effects of newsroom topic teams on news routines and newspaper quality. It is based on a census survey of journalists at the Star Tribune (Minneapolis) and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which both instituted topic teams within six months of each other. Survey results are supplemented by focus group and written comments from journalists in these two Newspaper Guild newsrooms. The study finds that the effects of the team system on the news process and news quality have been mixed, but predominantly negative, in the assessment of these journalists.

The contribution of electronic information technologies to breaking general assignment and routine beat news stories in large metropolitan newspapers is examined through a content analysis and in-depth interviews with reporters. Reporters working on breaking news stories make heavy use of their own paper's electronic backfiles and of fax technology, but do not use other information technologies available to them. Reporters use multiple sources for their stories and claim that electronic information technologies make it easier and faster to identify sources. However, the content analysis reveals reporters rely on the same types of sources representing the same institutional and social power structures as in the classic newsmaking studies.