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