Newsworthiness

Once more, newspapers and the media are reporting the attacks perpetrated by armed militiamen in and around Darfur, Sudan, in which many were killed, as well as the deteriorating tragic conditions of more than 2.5 million refugees displaced by the conflict. The Sudanese government’s latest denials about the worsening situation and its accusations that Chad is supporting the rebels and creating...

Since the early 1980s, the mutual fund industry has gained extreme popularity. Before then, investors who wanted to invest outside of traditional banking products usually turned to a full-service broker. But at that time, the brokerage industry was an expensive investment choice. Mutual funds numbered about 400; now there are more than 8,000 funds holding several trillion dollars. The amount of...

NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - They call it the World Wide Web, but newspapers trying to grow online audiences are focusing on deeper local coverage to build revenue. The Internet gives them tools to attract new customers, which leads to a rise in advertising, said executives at the Mid-Year Media Review conference in New York this week. To do so, newspapers have had to do more than publish the...

There is a direct correlation between terrorist attacks and media coverage, two economists have contended. Their conclusion, contained in the study entitled Blood and Ink: The Common-Interest-Game Between Terrorists and the Media, is that the relationship between terrorists and the media is symbiotic. 9/11: Bruno S Frey and Dominic Rohner have argued coverage caused more attacks, and attacks...

News stories about medical research, often based on initial findings presented at professional conferences, frequently omit basic facts about the study and fail to highlight important limitations, researchers have found. Such omissions can mislead the public and distort the actual significance of the research. HAS IT BEEN PUBLISHED: In this photo released by the University of Maastricht's Medical...

The 30 or so people who will take their desks next January in Sheridan College's new Canadian Journalism for Internationally Trained Writers program don't fit the college-student image. Many will be middle-aged, with worry lines. Some will have done prison time. All will speak with accents and carry themselves, well, as the seasoned journalists they were in previous lives -- influential...

(May 22, 2006) -- What does it take to advance your newspaper reporting or editing career? Well, the old stand-bys of talent and hard work still apply, and a bit of who-you-know thrown in can be helpful. But these days, there's more to it. Let's add in a willingness and ability to add non-traditional job responsibilities to get onto the fast lane of career advancement. Start piling on the job...

NEW YORK: More than half of newspaper journalists in a recent survey believe an unethical or unprofessional incident occurred in their newsroom within the past five years, while seven out of 10 said they had been accused of bias in the past 12 months, according to a study released today by the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. But at least 70% of those polled more often...

LONDON (Reuters) - One-quarter of consumers abandoned a news source over the past year because they lost trust in its reporting, according to a new survey that also found the BBC, Fox News and Al Jazeera the most trusted brands in their respective home regions. Results of a poll of more than 10,000 adults in 10 countries by the British Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters Group Plc and The Media...

LONDON: Videos shot in smoke-filled, bombed-out London underground trains, photos of body-strewn roads – the July 7 bombings on London’s transport system brought the arrival of a new advance guard of amateur reporters to Britain. Media commentators described it as a sea-change in journalism as mobile phone photographers, text messagers and bloggers dominated initial coverage of the bombings that...