Newsworthiness

The editor of an Odessa newspaper has been found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred in Ukraine for writing an anti-Semitic article, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) has reported. Ihor Volin-Danilov, an editor of Nashe Dyelo, received a suspended 18-month sentence for a 2007 article titled 'Kill the best of the goyim'. Volin-Danilov concluded in the story that the Jewish religion is “criminal and...

Bolivian President Evo Morales is planning to launch a state-run daily newspaper later this month which would act as a counterbalance to the "anti-government" local media, Reuters has reported. "The state's going to have its own newspaper and I've told the media team that we should launch it on January 22," Morales was quoted as saying by the official news agency ABI on Sunday. During a radio...

Media coverage of car crashes may harm rather than help public health. The media tends to obscure the bigger picture of motor-vehicles crashes as a leading cause of injury and death—and the number-one killer of young adults—by presenting car crashes as episodic, human interest stories. This type of coverage, according to two new studies published in the US-based National Safety Council's 'Journal

NowPublic has declared "crowd-powered" news reports of terrorist attacks in Mumbai as a climactic moment in a year in which citizen journalism proved its mettle. The India tragedy heads a list of 'Top 10 Moments In User-Generated News' determined by editors at the Vancouver-based startup. NowPublic's '2008: A Year in User-Generated News' serves as a snapshot and analysis of the seismic shift in...

Media coverage of clinical trials does not contain the elements readers require to make informed decisions. A comparison of the coverage received by pharmaceutical and herbal remedy trials, reported in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has revealed that it is rarely possible for the lay public to assess the credibility of the described research. Tania Bubela from the University of Alberta...

Within minutes of the first shots being fired at the CST railway station, commenced a non-stop television coverage of the 62-hour high voltage drama in Mumbai that shocked the world. Reporters flooded the four conflict zones, and developments were telecast as they unfolded. As people stayed glued to television sets, the gunbattles, the deaths, the widespread public anger made the Mumbai terror

The media coverage of the US presidential elections concentrated more on opinion polls than actual issues, says a report by a media analysis firm. The American media had been even clear on stating that Republican candidate John McCain would loose his own state Arizona, which he won by a 9 per cent margin. "We need to change the way how the media publishes and interprets polls," said Roland Schatz...

The debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden drew nearly 70 million US television viewers, far more than the John McCain-Barack Obama bout, making it the most watched vice presidential debate ever, Reuters has reported quoting ratings issued on Friday. Some details: The television audience for the Republican Palin and Democrat Biden also was the biggest for any nationally televised political...

News articles often fail to report pharmaceutical company funding and frequently refer to medications by their brand names, both potential sources of bias, according to a new study of news media coverage of medical studies New articles represent an important source of medical information for many patients, and even some physicians, says the study, which has been published in the October 1 issue of...

Several journalists in Andhra Pradesh are nursing political ambitions and are keen on testing their fortunes in the next elections, according to the Times of India. Analysts say that though it is not new for journalists taking to politics, what is interesting is that they have not seen such a rush before. Some colourful details: Sources say that many of them were inspired to take the political...