Newsworthiness

During the Easter weekend, Cedar City saw a strong example of citizen journalism. Darin Bloomfield, an SUU student, upon seeing a SWAT vehicle with its lights flashing cruising through his neighborhood, grabbed a video camera and began taping. When he realized he had something significant, he contacted various news organizations and provided the footage to them. The University Journal editorial...

Network morning shows and cable news fuelled the frenzied coverage of Playmate and heiress Anna Nicole Smith's death and the hysteria that followed leading to her burial, a study by a leading media watchdog group has found. Cable news programmes devoted 22 per cent of their airtime to the Smith story from February 8 to March 2, double the amount given to the second-biggest story, the presidential...

The story of some violent historic earthquakes may need to be revisited, says a new study. Seismologists rely on written accounts, mostly local newspaper articles, to judge how strongly the ground shook during earthquakes that predate the use of current instrumentation. Those news accounts have proven to be misleading, say scientists, and reliance upon them must be tempered when evaluating the...

JERUSALEM, April 3, 2007 (WAFA) - Palestinians view Al-Jazeera TV, Al-Quds Newspaper and as the most reliable sources of news, A public opinion poll said. A public opinion poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Center (JMCC) during the period between 19 and 21 March 2007 asked the Palestinian public about the TV channel, newspaper and radio station they trust as the most reliable...

It's hardly surprising that, as a Statistics Canada study released yesterday reveals, Canadians' level of political engagement is related to their news usage. The more news they consume, the more they are involved "in non-voting political activities such as attending public meetings; searching for information on a political issue; volunteering for a political party; expressing their views by...

A free web portal to help both citizens and journalists create and responsibly operate community news sites launched Monday with an array of learning and resource modules contributed by a network of participants. The Knight Citizen News Network (KCNN) seeks to help build capacity for citizens who want to start their own news ventures and to open the doors to citizen participation for traditional...

The percentage of minority journalists working in US daily newsrooms declined slightly to 13.62 percent this year, according an annual newsroom census. According to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), this year the associaiton counted full-time journalists working online for the first time to reflect the industry emphasis on expanding its Web presence. Including online-only...

WASHINGTON -- Here's an inviting and cautionary note from an Old Media geezer to the new-school bloggers, Webheads and YouTubers: Welcome. You're a valuable addition to the presidential landscape. Just don't get too full of yourselves. I am moved to inject this little dose of realism into all of the hoopla that has followed the unmasking of the man who created and placed the hilarious "Big Sister"...

The anti-Hillary Clinton video posted last week on YouTube.com demonstrated the speed and power of the Web as it quickly jumped from the Internet to cable news and network broadcasts such as NBC's Today and CBS Evening News. As a result, the video, which portrayed Clinton as a dictatorial character out of George Orwell's 1984 (and was a takeoff of a famous Apple ad), became one of last week's most...

US news network reports of pharmaceutical-related stories routinely fail to name or credit the companies which produce the medicines involved, and take the availability and accessibility of prescription drugs for granted, according to a survey conducted by the Business and Media Institute (BMI), a free-market advocacy group. The reporting also tends to be biased towards controversy and...