The Lear Center Local News Archive

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	Stanford Law & Policy Review "Does Local News Measure Up?" will be published in Vol. 18 of the Stanford Law & Policy Review in Spring 2007. The authors of the report are Erica Franklin Fowler, Kenneth Goldstein, Matthew Hale and Martin Kaplan. October 3, 2006 FCC Testimony Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan testified at the FCC Media Ownership Hearing at the University of Southern California on October 3, 2006. Listen to the Webcast. Read Commissioner Adelstein's statement. 2006 FCC Testimony Lear Center Director Martin Kaplan testified at the FCC Media Ownership Hearing on August 31, 2006, in Los Angeles. Local TV News Coverage of the 2002 General Election-- July 23, 2003 This final report presents analysis from the Lear Center Local News Archive project. Findings include, for example, that only 44% of broadcasts contained any campaign coverage at all; less than 30% of campaign stories included candidates speaking. About half those broadcasts contained three or more paid political ads, and more than 80% of them aired at least one ad. Local TV News Coverage of Politics and the Public Interest Obligations of Broadcasters -- July 23, 2003 Local News Archive Principal Investigator Martin Kaplan testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on the responsibilities of broadcasters to cover relevant political issues. Over Half of Local News Broadcasts Ignored 2002 Midterm Election Campaigns -- July 23, 2003 Over half of the top-rated half-hours of local news broadcasts that aired in the weeks leading up to the 2002 midterm elections did not contain a single story about the campaign, Local News Archive analysis shows. Television News Coverage of the 1998 California Gubernatorial Election-- July 23, 2003 Findings from a study conducted by the Norman Lear Center, written by Martin Kaplan and Matthew Hale. The 'Local' in Local TV is in Danger-- June 2, 2003 In an op-ed run in the Christian Science Monitor, Local News Archive Principal Investigator weighs in on the FCC's plans to relax media ownership rules. What Do We Need to Know?-- April 25, 2003 At a Federal Communications Commission hearing, Local News Archive Principal Investigator Martin Kaplan presented first findings from research conducted by the Lear Center Local News Archive. Our Partner, Reliable Resources, Announces Winners of the Second Annual Cronkite Awards-- March 17, 2003 Proving that good political coverage can make great television, Reliable Resources named the winners of the USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.