Goldsmith Book Prize
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2017 Academic:
Democracy's detectives :
the economics of investigative journalism by James T. Hamilton; Trade: Republic
of spin : an inside history of the American presidency by David Greenberg
2016 Academic: Political journalism in
comparative perspective by Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril and Claes H.
de Vreese; Trade:
Lincoln and the power of the press : the war for public opinion by Harold
Holzer
2015 Academic: Media commercialization and
authoritarian rule in China by Daniela Stockmann; Trade:
The invention of news
: how the world came to know about itself by Andrew Pettegree
2014 Academic: Changing minds or changing
channels? : partisan news in an age of choice by Kevin Arceneaux and Martin
Johnson; How partisan
media polarize America by Matthew Levendusky; Trade:
Who owns the future? by Jaron
Lanier
2013 Academic: Why Americans hate the media
and how it matters by Jonathan M. Ladd; Trade:
Consent of the
networked : the world-wide struggle for Internet freedom by Rebecca
MacKinnon
2012 Academic:
Going local : presidential
leadership in the post-broadcast age by Jeffrey E. Cohen; Trade: The net delusion : the dark side
of internet freedom by Evgeny Morozov
2011
Academic: When politicians attack : party cohesion in the media by Tim Groeling;
Cycles of spin : strategic communication in the U.S. Congress by Patrick J.
Sellers; Trade:
What is
happening to news : the information explosion and the crisis in journalism
by Jack Fuller
2010
Academic: The myth of digital democracy by
Matthew Hindman; Trade:
Journalism's
roving eye : a history of American foreign reporting by John Maxwell
Hamilton
2009
Academic: Post-broadcast
democracy : how media choice increases inequality in political involvement and
polarizes elections by Markus Prior; Trade:
Dark side :
the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals
by Jane Mayer
2008
Academic: In defense of negativity : attack ads
in presidential campaigns by John G. Geer;
Trade: Nation of
secrets : the threat to democracy and the American way of life by Ted Gup
2007
Academic: Hearing the
other side : deliberative versus participatory democracy by Diana C. Mutz; Trade:
The race beat
: the press, the civil rights struggle, and the awakening of a nation by
Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2006
Academic: Tides of
consent : how public opinion shapes American politics by James A. Stimson; Trade:
Perilous times
: free speech in wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the war on terrorism
by Geoffrey R. Stone
2005
Academic: Comparing
media systems : three models of media and politics by Daniel C. Hallin and
Paolo Mancini; Trade:
The creation
of the media : political origins of modern communications by Paul Starr
2004
Academic: Collective
preferences in democratic politics : opinion surveys and the will of the people
by Scott L. Althaus;
The mass media and the dynamics of American racial attitudes by Paul M. Kellstedt; Trade: Embedded : the media at war in
Iraq by Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson
2003
Academic: Processing
politics : learning from television in the Internet age by
Doris Graber; Trade:
The news about
the news : American journalism in peril by Leonard Downie Jr.
and Robert G. Kaiser
2002
Academic: The black
image in the white mind : media and race in America by Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki; Trade: The elements
of journalism : what newspeople should know and the public should expect by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel
2001
Politicians
don't pander : political manipulation and the loss of democratic responsiveness by Lawrence R. Jacobs & Robert Y. Shapiro
2000
Rich media,
poor democracy : communication politics in dubious times by Robert McChesney
1999
Channeling
violence : the economic market for violent television programming by
James Hamilton
1998
The Colonel :
the life and legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955 by Richard
Norton Smith
1997
No award given
1996
Going negative
: how attack ads shrink and polarize the electorate
by Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar
1995
Public
television for sale : media, the market, and the public sphere by William Hoynes
1994
Democracy and
the problem of free speech by Cass R. Sunstein
1993
The campaign
of the century : Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. race for governor of California and
the birth of media politics by Greg Mitchell