News & Newsmaking

Over the last fifteen years, Stephen Hess has become a leading and much-quoted authority on Washington government and the media. In this volume, he presents a collection of his best essays on the media written over the past decade.The book includes:*''All the President's Reporters'' examines the White House press corps and the way it covers the president.*''Leaks and Other Informal Communications'' is an insider's look at why government officials leak information to journalists.*''The Sex Test'' asks whether it makes any difference if the news is written by men or women.Addional collections of Hess' essays published by Brookings include International News & Foreign Correspondence (1996) and Presidents & the Presidency (1996).