Newsworthiness

Earlier this year, the feminist writer Susan Estrich said that women's bylines appeared far less frequently than men's on newspaper opinion pages like those of The Los Angeles Times. Now, a Condé Nast editor is making a similar case against several of publishing's top general-interest magazines - including some owned by Condé Nast. Ruth Davis Konigsberg, a deputy editor at Glamour, began counting...

Fifty-eight journalists from 24 foreign countries and regions and Korean journalists attending the 2005 Asia Journalists Forum and Plenary Session of the Asia Journalists Association in Seoul and Jeju from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5 rounded off their sessions with fresh commitments to join hands in protecting and expanding the press freedom, safety and rights of journalists. They passed two resolutions...

SEOUL (Nov. 5, 2005) – The Asian Journalists Association has adopted its charter and appointed two of its five vice presidents. With the approval of its charter, the AJA plans to announce the final lineup of its Executive Council members as early as possible. At its plenary session on Jeju Island on Nov. 2, participants of the AJA approved the AJA Charter, which was drafted by several founding...

Are you media-savvy? To find out, take this short quiz: When the Alito story broke early this week, which of these outlets had it first? A) Washingtonpost.com B) National Public Radio C) The political blog LucyLocket.net D) To be honest, I don't care. Before we get to the correct answer, I should note that some may quarrel with the choices. Fact is, early on the morning of the Alito announcement...

Amid the smoke and stench of burning careers, Washington feels a bit like the last days of the ancien régime. As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. Let the perp walks begin. Whether the public feels reassured is another matter. George W. Bush...

We'll try to resist the easy stereotype of British reporters, all that rubbish about what a pack of rambunctious, foul-mouthed, partisan, aggressive and all-around cheeky rogues and rascals they are. That's the sort of caricature that has stuck to the British press like a barnacle for decades, and an objective American reporter shouldn't stand for it. Okay, we held out for one paragraph. The 50...

To the list of challenges faced by newspapers -- declining circulation, rising newsprint costs and increased competition from more up-to-the-minute media -- add another: rising pressure from investors to make more money and reverse sliding stock prices. On Tuesday, newspaper giant Knight Ridder Inc.'s largest shareholder demanded that the company either seek a buyer for the entire company or sell...

The BBC harbours an anti-religious attitude, its correspondents have little understanding of religious issues and soaps such as EastEnders ridicule religion, the House of Lords select committee considering the future of the corporation heard today. The BBC was also attacked by members of the committee for treating religion "with kid gloves" and for employing reporters who tried to "fluff their way...

NEW YORK: The most important newspaper in its region finally apologized to readers for accepting "cooked" evidence about WMD in Iraq that helped lead to war in 2003. No, it was not The New York Times. In a column on Sunday, O. Ricardo Pimentel, editorial page editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wrote that, "Yes, regrettably on the matter of WMD, count us as among the many who were duped. We...

When Margaret Carlson picks up the newspaper from her stoop every morning, she basically knows what's going to be inside. "I think it's yesterday's newspaper, because I've seen everything on my laptop already," says the Washington-based syndicated columnist and CNN analyst. That's a reality newspapers face each day because of technology, and it has radically changed the way news is presented to...