| The spot: The rise of political advertising on television E Diamond, S Bates Mit Press, 1992 | 692 | 1992 |
| Battleground: One mother's crusade, the religious right, and the struggle for control of our classrooms S Bates (No Title), 1993 | 142* | 1993 |
| What's entertainment? Notes toward a definition S Bates, AJ Ferri Studies in Popular Culture 33 (1), 1-20, 2010 | 115 | 2010 |
| Realigning journalism with democracy: The Hutchins Commission, its times, and ours S Bates Annenberg Washington Program, Communications Policy Studies, Northwestern …, 1995 | 92 | 1995 |
| The Death of Geography, the Rise of Anonymity and the Internet S Bates International Information Communication and Education 18 (2), 261-265, 1999 | 53 | 1999 |
| If no news, send rumors: Anecdotes of American journalism S Bates New York: H. Holt, 1991 | 36* | 1991 |
| More SPEECH: Preempting Privacy Tourism S Bates Hastings Comm. & Ent. LJ 33, 379, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| From realism to reality: The advent of war photography GA Borchard, LJ Mullen, S Bates Journalism & Communication Monographs 15 (2), 66-107, 2013 | 19 | 2013 |
| Libel Capital No More-Reforming British Defamation Law S Bates Hastings Comm. & Ent. LJ 34, 233, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Law and order comes to cyberspace E Diamond, S Bates TECHNOLOGY REVIEW-MANCHESTER NH- 98, 22-22, 1995 | 16 | 1995 |
| A textbook of virtues S Bates The New York Times. A 4, 1995 | 16 | 1995 |
| Public Intellectuals on Time's Covers S Bates Journalism History 37 (1), 39-50, 2011 | 15 | 2011 |
| An Aristocracy of Critics: Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the Committee That Redefined Freedom of the Press S Bates | 13 | 2020 |
| “Godless communism” and its legacies S Bates Society 41 (3), 29-33, 2004 | 13 | 2004 |
| The reporter's privilege, then and now S Bates Shorenstein Center Research Paper Series, 2000 | 13 | 2000 |
| The prodigy and the press: William James Sidis, anti-intellectualism, and standards of success S Bates Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 88 (2), 374-397, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| National Service: Getting Things Done? S Bates Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation, 1996 | 11 | 1996 |
| Is This the Best Philosophy Can Do? Henry R. Luce and A Free and Responsible Press S Bates Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 95 (3), 811-834, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| Copyright in second life Y Karniel, S Bates Alb. LJ Sci. & Tech. 20, 433, 2010 | 10 | 2010 |
| Media censures: The Hutchins Commission on the press, the New York intellectuals on mass culture S Bates International Journal of Communication 12, 4784, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
