Academic Articles

Articles by David Sachsman
âEnvironmental Reporters in a Time of Changeâ (with JoAnn Myer Valenti) chapter for The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication, Second Edition, edited by Anders Hansen and Robert Cox. London and New York: Routledge, in press.
âThe Nineteenth Century American Press.â The Cambridge History of American Popular Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.
âYellow Journalism.â Chapter in Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present, edited by Edward J. Blum. New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 2016, 1145â48.
âEnvironmental Reportersâ (with JoAnn Myer Valenti). Chapter 12 of The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication, edited by Anders Hansen and Robert Cox. London and New York: Routledge, 2015, 158â67.
Foreword for Lincoln Mediated: The President and the Press through Nineteenth-Century Media by Gregory A. Borchard and David W. Bulla. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers (now Routledge), 2015, xiâxiii.
âThe Civil War in Film.â A peer-reviewed article for Essential Civil War Curriculum, a Sesquicentennial Project of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies and the History Department of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. August 2016.
âEnvironment Reporters and U.S. Journalists: A Comparative Analysisâ (with James Simon and JoAnn Myer Valenti) Applied Environmental Education and Communication, Vol. 7 (2008), 1-19.
âRegional Issues, National Norms: A Four-Region Analysis of U.S. Environment Reportersâ (with James Simon and JoAnn Myer Valenti) Science Communication, Vol. 28 No. 1, (September 2006), 93-121.
âWrestling with Objectivity and Fairness: U.S. Environment Reporters and the Business Communityâ (with James Simon and JoAnn Myer Valenti) Applied Environmental Education and Communication, Vol. 4 (2005), 363-373.
âRisk and the Environment Reporters: A FourâRegion Analysisâ (with James Simon and JoAnn Myer Valenti) Public Understanding of Science, Vol. 13, (2004), 399-416.
âWho Sets the Environmental Agenda?â In The Reporterâs Environmental Handbook, Third Edition, edited by Bernadette M. West, M. Jane Lewis, Michael R. Greenberg, David B. Sachsman, and Renee M. Rogers. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003, pp. 48-59.
âAn Early History of Environmental Reporting and Public Relationsâ SEJournal, Vol. 12 No. 2, (Fall 2002), 1, 14-15. PDF
âThe Environment Reporters of New Englandâ (with James Simon and JoAnn M. Valenti) Science Communication, Vol. 23 No. 4, (June 2002), 410-441.
âCommentary: Should Reporters Use Risk as a Determinant of Environmental Coverage?â Science Communication, Vol. 21 No. 1, (September 1999), 88-95.
âReporting Risks and Setting the Environmental Agenda.â âIn Environmental Education for the 21st Century: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives", edited by Patricia J. Thompson. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1997, 129-41.
âThe Mass Media âDiscoverâ the Environment: Influences on Environmental Reporting in the First Twenty Yearsâ In The Symbolic Earth: Discourse and Our Creation of the Environment, edited by James G. Cantrill and Christine L. Oravec. Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996, 241-56.
âCommunication Between Scientists and the Media: Introducing the Concepts of Risk, Risk Analysis, and Risk Communication to Journalists.â In âHazardous Waste and Public Health: International Congress on the Health Effects of Hazardous Waste, edited by John S. Andrews et. al. Princeton: Princeton Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., 1994, 945-952.
âMass Communication Education: Moving Toward Diversity.â Mass Comm Review, Vol. 20, No. 3 & 4 (1993), 180-191.
âThe Mass Media and Environmental Risk Communication: Then and Now.â In Proceedings of the Conference on Communication and Our Environment, edited by James G. Cantrill and M. Jimmie Killingsworth. Marquette: Northern Michigan University Printing Services, 1993.
âA Question of Quality: How Journalists and News Sources Evaluate Coverage of Environmental Riskâ (with Kandice L. Salomone, Greenberg, and Sandman) Journal of Communication, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Autumn 1990), 117-130.
âRisk, Drama, and Geography in Coverage of Environmental Risk by Network TVâ (with Greenberg, Sandman, and Salomone) Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Summer 1989), 267-276. Read as âPDF.
âNetwork Television News Coverage of Environment Risksâ (with Greenberg, Sandman, and Salomone) Environment, Vol. 31, No. 2 (March 1989), 16-20, 40-44.
âNetwork Evening News Coverage of Environmental Riskâ (with Greenberg, Sandman, and Salomone) Risk Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1989), 119-126.
âImproving Press Coverage of Environmental Riskâ (with Sandman, Greenberg, Salomone) Industrial Crisis Quarterly, Vol. 2, Nos. 3 & 4 (1988), 293-296.
âEnvironmental Risk Reporting: Hypotheticals Teach Skillsâ (with Sandman, Greenberg, and Salomone) Journalism Educator, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Summer 1988), 57-59, 77.
âConfessions of a Computer Facilityâ Journalism Educator, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Winter 1986), 17-20.
âLinking the Scientist and the Journalist.â In âHazPro â85, edited by Richard A. Young. Northbrook, IL.: Pudvan Publishing Company, 1985, 196-202.
âEvaluating a Stateâs Daily Newspapersâ Mass Comm Review, Vol. 11, No. 1/2 (Winter/Spring 1984), 2-11.
âNewspapers Should Raise Salaries To Get and Keep Good Writers.â Jersey Publisher, Vol. 52, No. 7 (July 1984), 5, 12.
âThe Home News: Still at home in New Brunswickâ (with Warren Sloat) New Jersey Reporter, Vol. 13, No. 2 (July 1983), 34-37. No PDF
âThe Battle of Trenton continues.â (with Warren Sloat) The Quill, Vol. 71, No. 6 (June 1983), 27-31.
âCourier-Post: Living up to a legacyâ (with Warren Sloat) New Jersey Reporter, Vol. 13, No. 1 (June 1983), 24-27. No PDF
âAsbury Park Press: The right paper in the right place at the right time.â (with Warren Sloat) New Jersey Reporter, Vol. 12, No. 10 (May 1983), 22-25.
âThe Record: Big bucks, slick productâ (with Warren Sloat) New Jersey Reporter, Vol. 12, No. 8 (March 1983), 22-25. No PDF
âThe Star-Ledger: Does bigger mean better?â (with Warren Sloat) New Jersey Reporter, Vol. 12, No. 7 (February 1983), 18-21. No PDF
âRemembering âThe Little Old Lady of Market Street.ââ (with Warren Sloat) New Jersey Reporter, Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 1982), 23-25. No PDF
âCommunicating for the Future.â Our World, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Spring 1979), 2-6.
âPublic Relations Influence on Coverage of Environment in San Francisco Areaâ Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Spring 1976), 54-60.
âMass Media and the Urban Environment.â Mass Comm Review, Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 1974), 3-12.
âA Test of âLoadingâ: New Measure of Biasâ Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Winter 1970), 759-762.
âThe Adversary Relationship in Academe: A Testâ Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Winter 1969), 800-802.
Contributor to Mass Media and the Environment, Vol. II. (David Mark Rubin and David Peter Sachs) Report of project supported by NSF Grant GZ-1777, September 1971. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Medical Center, 1971.