1. Barbie Zelizer
Raymond Williams Professor of Communication

2. Assessing
Evidence
Postmodern World

3. Assessing Evidence and News Images
How and why do news images force a
rethinking of what we expect of evidence?
How do we connect a discussion of evidence
with a meta conversation about what we
are saying about evidence?
How do the form and content of news images
connect in discussions of assessing evidence?

4. Journalism
Assess evidence better Assess strategically
Give context + explanation Assess with insufficient evidence
Select reflective evidence Assess with unavailable proof
Assess with larger assumptions
Rhetoric Noise Action

5. Tensions in newswork
Simple/Complex Simple
Global/Local Global
Past/Present Past

6. Complex Evidence, Simple News

10. Local Evidence, Global News

13. Venezuela, 2004

14. South Korea, 2004
Canada, 2004

15. Present Evidence, Past News
Hungary, 1956

17. How do journalists assess evidence?
Complex Evidence Simple News
Local Evidence Global News
Present Evidence Past News
= solution to problems of evidence in newswork