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Democracy’s Detectives puts investigative journalism under a magnifying glass to clarify the challenges and opportunities facing news organizations today.   “Hamilton’s book presents a thoughtful and detailed case for the indispensability of investigative journalism—and just at the time when we needed it. Now more than ever, reporters can play an essential role as society’s watchdogs, working to expose corruption, greed, and injustice of the years to come. For this reason, Democracy’s Detectives should be taken as both a call to arms and a bracing reminder, for readers and journalists alike, of the importance of the profession.” —Anya Schiffrin, The Nation  “A highly original look at exactly what the subtitle promises…Has this topic ever been more important than this year?” —Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49506777858321,"sku":"CIN0674986814G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49895355842833,"sku":"CIN0674986814VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50525907910929,"sku":"NGR9780674986817","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51005613015313,"sku":"NIN9780674986817","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51381519515921,"sku":"GOR014248634","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0674986814.jpg?v=1751008375"},{"product_id":"democracys-detectives-book-james-t-hamilton-9780674545502","title":"Democracys Detectives","description":"Investigative journalism holds democracies and individuals accountable to the public. But important stories are going untold as news outlets shy away from the expense of watchdog reporting. Computational journalism, using digital records and data-mining algorithms, promises to lower the cost and increase demand among readers, James Hamilton shows.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50007501865233,"sku":"CIN0674545508G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51320300798225,"sku":"GOR014226848","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0674545508.jpg?v=1751008318"},{"product_id":"all-the-news-that-s-fit-to-sell-book-james-t-hamilton-9780691123677","title":"All the News That's Fit to Sell","description":"Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. This book develops an economic theory of news, analyzes evidence across a range of media markets on how incentives affect news content, and offers conclusions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50117444010257,"sku":"CIN0691123675G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52546122350865,"sku":"GOR007440892","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0691123675.jpg?v=1751008685"},{"product_id":"all-the-news-that-s-fit-to-sell-book-james-t-hamilton-9780691116808","title":"All the News That's Fit to Sell","description":"That market forces drive the news is not news. Whether a story appears in print, on television, or on the Internet depends on who is interested, its value to advertisers, the costs of assembling the details, and competitors' products. But in \"All the News That's Fit to Sell\", economist James Hamilton shows just how this happens. Furthermore, many complaints about journalism - media bias, soft news, and pundits as celebrities - arise from the impact of this economic logic on news judgments. This is the first book to develop an economic theory of news, analyze evidence across a wide range of media markets on how incentives affect news content, and offer policy conclusions. Media bias, for instance, was long a staple of the news. Hamilton's analysis of newspapers from 1870 to 1900 reveals how nonpartisan reporting became the norm. A hundred years later, some partisan elements reemerged as, for example, evening news broadcasts tried to retain young female viewers with stories aimed at their (Democratic) political interests. Examination of story selection on the network evening news programs from 1969 to 1998 shows how cable competition, deregulation, and ownership changes encouraged a shift from hard news about politics toward more soft news about entertainers. Hamilton concludes by calling for lower costs of access to government information, a greater role for nonprofits in funding journalism, the development of norms that stress hard news reporting, and the defining of digital and Internet property rights to encourage the flow of news. 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