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Last month, two UCLA professors produced a study alleging liberal bias in the mainstream media. In their study, titled “A Measure of Media Bias,” the professors first tallied how often members of Congress cited 200 prominent special interest groups. Then the researchers assigned these special interest groups ratings based on the voting patterns (liberal or conservative) of the members of Congress...

(New York-AP) January 31, 2006 - The Associated Press is actually two years older than previously reported. A recently acquired collection of old documents shows the world's biggest newsgathering organization started in 1846. The AP and journalism historians had traditionally set the date in 1848. The papers come from a great-great-grandson of the second owner-publisher of the original New York...

When a Brookfield alderman launched a Web site to promote and pummel candidates in local elections, he took a step that perhaps no other blogger in Wisconsin has taken. He registered under state campaign finance rules as an independent person trying to influence voters. Ald. Scott Berg even filled out a form listing every elected official and challenger he would advocate for and against on his...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt are no strangers to combat or sticky situations. Like hundreds of other journalists, both built their careers on going to war zones and bringing back the story. But the bomb attack that seriously wounded Woodruff and Vogt shook the news industry Sunday, providing a chilling reminder that covering the war in Iraq has become increasingly...

Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has blinked finally. With Denmark standing in the danger of its trade ties with Muslim countries, particularly those in the Middle East, breaking down, the daily has tendered a virtual apology to the citizens of Saudi Arabia for 'erroneously publishing the cartoons that are offensive to the Prophet'. FIRED UP: Members of Palestinian militant group Popular...

Opinion about Iraq splits along political lines. Republicans maintain that the going is tough but we are making real progress. Most Democrats feel that we are wading deeper into quicksand. The public understandably wants an objective source of information about Iraq. That should be the American press, but it isn’t. The January Gallup Poll on Iraq found that 49 percent of respondents felt that we...

(CNN) -- Both Time magazine's Michael Ware and CNN's Nic Robertson have spent many days in war zones and know the danger of reporting from Iraq. On Monday, they reflected on the bombing that wounded ABC anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt. Ware and Robertson told CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien that journalists are increasingly being targeted. O'BRIEN: The area where this attack took place on...

NEW YORK – If you made a list of today's great media innovators you'd probably fill it with people whose dazzling ideas are shaping the Internet, television and even radio. Not newspapers, though. The industry is famously risk-averse. You might not need both hands to count the big ideas that have wowed the public with their originality since 1880 when dailies began running photographs, or possibly...

Is the freedom the media enjoy in the world’s democracies being exploited by terrorist organizations? Some people say we should stop reporting on atrocities and the terrorists would be defeated by being starved of the oxygen of publicity. Others do not agree. They say freedom of speech is too important to be stifled, even in the interest of fighting against terrorism. LONDON, 30 January 2006 (RFE...

30 January 2006 – The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the murders of an Iraqi television journalist reporting on fighting in the city of Ramadi and two Philippine journalists gunned down in their own towns. "I deplore the death of Mahmoud Za'al. All too many journalists have been dying in Iraq," UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro...