Newsworthiness

The incendiary call by the Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Israel to be "wiped off the map" provoked outrage in the Israeli press, which contended that this invited comparisons with the Holocaust. Iran's newspapers, on the other hand, by and large, rejected the international condemnation of Ahmadinejad's comments about Israel. MARCH PAST: Islamic protesters carry a poster of the of late...

Interview young journalists for a job these days, and their inevitable response to the question as to why they want a career in the written word comes back to basic principles: expose injustice, fight for the public's right to know, and - in one memorable case - change the world. In reality, journalism is more often a mixture of mundane police calls, follow-ups, caption-writing and fruitless phone...

The US Congress has recently made another decision regarding the issue of freedom of speech and press in Russia. American officials would like to call upon the Russian administration to give more freedom to Russian media outlets. The anti-Russian provocation in the US Congress was initiated by Republican Congressman Thaddeus McCotter. The official referred to last year's report from the US State...

More than half of the top five Sunday morning talk shows in the United States (US) do not include a single female guest, while male experts featured in the US news media outnumber women nine to one, a new study has revealed. The study, conducted over an eight-month period by the White House Project looked at the Sunday political talk shows on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and FOX. Women comprise more than...

''The propagandist's purpose," wrote Aldous Huxley, "is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, were specialists in the field. At the height of the slaughter known as the First World War, the prime minister, David Lloyd George, confided to C P Scott, editor of the Manchester...

News International chairman Les Hinton has accused 'citizen journalists" of amateurism, misrepresentation and failing to emulate the standards of traditional news organisations. Using the example of coverage of this year's hurricane in New Orleans - where he said bloggers were responsible for "bad information", including reports of unrest and rape that were not later substantiated - he called on...

Perhaps because there has been so little real news to report – before the earthquake, of course – over the last several weeks, the media themselves have become the story. Nearly everywhere I go people are discussing the media, arguing about our ethics and lamenting the trend towards sensationalising news. The most influential of the critics, of course, has been the Prime Minister. Angered by...

Alexandria, VA–A new study released today by the Media Research Center, TV’s Bad News Brigade, reveals the three commercial network nightly news broadcasts have been overwhelmingly biased in their coverage of Iraq. The MRC analyzed all broadcasts of ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, and the CBS Evening News from January 1 through September 30 and found 61 percent of the stories were...

Those planning to cover the football World Cup in Germany next year may have to wait until the crowds have gone home. FIFA, football's international governing body, announced its rules for press coverage today and included a ban on publishing digital images of the games for one hour after the final whistle. FASTEST GOAL: According to the rules, a picture shot in the first minute of a game cannot...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- While marketers are pushing for print’s answer to product placement, it turns out that most magazine readers already consider it rampant. A study released yesterday by Starcom USA found that 65% of the consumers believe that advertisers pay for editorial mentions. Readers receptive Moreover, Starcom found, readers are receptive to reading about brands in articles. Nearly 83...