Newsworthiness

Some of the nation's largest companies were counted last year by the government as small businesses for contracting purposes, inflating the Bush administration's record of help to small companies. Media companies cited as small businesses included The New York Times Co., USA Today International Corp., Bloomberg LP and the Public Broadcasting Service, according to data the administration gave...

NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc.'s (TWX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) CNN plans to standardize how it solicits and handles user-contributed news amid an industry-wide move to let consumers play a more prominent role in the news gathering process. The cable news network on Tuesday plans to announce it has created a new program to let users send in digital audio and video from breaking...

Here is a media & health paradox: despite low levels of literacy among the populations most at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, a recent study has found greater coverage of HIV/AIDS stories in print media rather than in broadcast media. Of the 356 stories sampled over two-week monitoring periods, 281 (79 per cent) were from the print media and 75 (21 per cent) from the broadcast media. While more...

A female TV anchor's participation in this year's Miss Universe competition has triggered a debate over the role of anchors. Kim Joo-hee, a SBS anchor and Miss Korea 2005, took part in the pageant that opened in Los Angeles last week. Although she failed to make it to the final 20, her participation attracted great attention in Korea with photos of her in a bikini displayed on the Internet...

You could be forgiven for thinking the television images in the experiment were from 2006. They were really from 1982: Israeli forces were clashing with Arab militants in Lebanon. The world was watching, charges were flying, and the air was thick with grievance, hurt and outrage. There was only one thing on which pro-Israeli and pro-Arab audiences agreed. Both were certain that media coverage in...

Muslims in UK blame Islamophobia on the portrayal of their religion in the media, a survey has revealed. An overwhelming 92 per cent feel this is either a very significant or significant problem. A significant number of the other respondents surveyed too think it is indeed a problem, with 44 per cent UK public and 40 per cent Jews saying so. THEIR STORY: It was striking that Muslims feel more...

An independent and free media may undermine rather than support the rebuilding of states in crisis and post-war situations, says a new report from academics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). CRISES AND MISTAKES: One of the fundamental mistakes, the authors say, that has been made by donor agencies promoting media development strategies since the end of the Cold War has...

NEW YORK: With many newspapers already limited in their foreign coverage by the ongoing Iraq War, and some budget cutbacks, the current MIddle East conflict -- which escalated over the weekend with new attacks on both sides and numerous civilian casualties -- has thrown a new wrench of staffing and news space demands. Although most foreign editors say they have been able to keep their Iraq...

July 13, 2006: Two local journalism professors have produced guidebooks on Canadian journalism ethics that offer some hope to scribes toiling in the trenches of big media and the audiences enduring the daily drivel they produce. Stephen Ward's The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond and Nick Russell's Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism (2nd edition)...

WASHINGTON – A few weeks ago in this space I asked you for your thoughts on the news media - what you don't like and don't understand about how reporters and news outlets go about their work. A few dozen responses later, it's safe to simply say there's a lot. But if, as reporters always defensively say, the media are not a monolith, that is even more true of media users. Some of you turn to and...