Lanosga paper looks at investigative contest entries
Assistant professor Gerry Lanosga’s paper, “Journalists, Sources and Policy Outcomes: Insights from Three-Plus Decades of Investigative Reporting Contest Entries,” was published in Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism Dec. 28.
Lanosga and co-author Jason A. Martin, PhD’10, now associate professor at the College of Communication at DePaul University, studied journalism contest questionnaires from 1976 through 2012, analyzing agenda-building relationships among investigative journalists, sources and policymakers.
Lanosga and Martin found that investigative stories that originate through sources and have a wide variety of sources have a better chance of accomplishing policy results. They concluded that there is a strong degree of interdependence among investigative reporters and policymakers, leading to certain limitations and challenges for news organizations’ ability to build policy change.
Lanosga’s research interests include journalism history, journalism practice and media law.
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