Newsworthiness

While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left. These are just...

When people ask why I recently left The Wall Street Journal to join the Marines, I usually have a short answer. It felt like the time had come to stop reporting events and get more directly involved. But that's not the whole answer, and how I got to this point wasn't a straight line. It's a cliché that you appreciate your own country more when you live abroad, but it happens to be true. Living in...

When NBC newsman Reuven Frank started in television journalism more than 50 years ago, corporate sponsors commonly attached their names to programs -- even news broadcasts. Frank got his break in 1950 with a classic of the genre: "Camel News Caravan," the NBC evening news program sponsored entirely by Camel cigarettes. "We weren't allowed to show a live camel, because a Camel is a smooth cigarette...

In a speech this fall, Al Gore spoke of the "strangeness" in our political discourse. He bemoaned the "new pattern of serial obsessions that periodically take over the airwaves for weeks at a time," and the lack of desire for accountability in American journalism. On top of all this, the idea that perception is far more important than reality has become the principle of our broadcast politics...

The Association of European Journalists (AEJ) passed resolutions last week urging the UN not to discriminate against Taiwanese journalists reporting on its activities. The association's call comes after local journalists reiterated during a visit by AEJ members to Taiwan last month that the UN should respect the right of Taiwanese media to cover international conferences. Members of the AEJ...

America's super-rich believe extravagant personalities such as Donald Trump and Paris Hilton are giving them a bad name, according to a survey of the country's wealthiest families. The study, which focused on 500 families with average liquid net assets of $28m (€23.3m, £15.8m), found 69 per cent of respondents thought wealthy people were portrayed negatively or somewhat negatively in the media...

GWALIOR: You might have come across several newspapers writing on the plight of women, but have you ever heard about a paper run by women, for women and to women? If not, then come to Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh to read through 'Mahila Paksh', India's first women centric newspaper, covering issues and subjects ranging from atrocities on women to their achievements in various fields. With reporters...

PEOPLE may not be keen on consuming the fruits of journalism - ratings, circulation and polling numbers make that plain - but put them in a darkened movie house and the craft suddenly becomes riveting. Journalists play a role in a surprising number of movies that are rounding out the year and may well be around at Oscar time. "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Capote" take journalists as their chief...

London (ENI). When a reader wrote to Britain's daily Guardian newspaper complaining there were too many religious stories in a journal, she believed had a secular tradition, the readers' editor decided to make an electronic check. "Yet another religious article today," the reader wrote on 5 December. "Please could you tell me why there is now so much religion in the Guardian? What prompted this...

One spring afternoon in 1996, then-Seattle Times reporter Deborah Nelson's phone rang. The anonymous caller told her that an Indian tribal official had built a castle-like home for herself and her husband, using federal money earmarked to build reservation houses for low-income American Indians. Nelson took a drive to the construction site to see the 5,300-square-foot structure, one of 18 lavish...