Newsworthiness

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has welcomed the decision by the 2008 Academy of the Chernoritzets Hrabar award in Sofia, on the recommendation of the Union of Bulgarian Publishers, to revoke a prize awarded earlier this year to a racist journalist. The prestigious Young Journalist of the Year prize given to Kalin Rumenov, a journalist with the Novinar national newspaper...

Being at the helm of power seems to have given the Congress an edge over other parties in getting more coverage on the front page of newspapers, with a new study claiming that the grand old party got almost three times more space than their co unterparts. While a total of 377 reports on Congress appeared in the Delhi edition of four leading English newspapers - Indian Express, Times of India...

Crime has outrun cricket and cinema in the battle for Television Rating Points (TRPs), at least as far as the brutal twin murders of 14-year-old schoolgirl Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj are concerned. According to Television Audience Measurement (TAM), a company which rates television programmes, news channels scored nine points for the telecast of the Noida twin murder case as compared...

Newspaper readers in the US agree with editors on the basics of what makes good journalism, but they are more apt to want looser rules for online conversations, a new study on news credibility has found. Newspapers highly discourage anonymous remarks, for instance, and editors are more likely than readers to want that principle applied to reader comments online, according to the Online Journalism...

Cuba's state-run television broadcaster will launch a 24-hour channel with mostly foreign content in a move to provide Cuban audiences with more variety, says a Reuters report. The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television, ICRT, made the announcement Wednesday last at a conference of the Cuban writers and artists guild, where intellectuals criticised the poor quality of television programming in...

A person interested in climate change could consistently read a newspaper for information about the phenomenon, but would not be fully informed, says a new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. Advertising assistant professor LeeAnn Kahlor and advertising graduate student Sonny Rosenthal found that one would need to rely on a variety of media sources—television, newspapers...

Newspapers will have to change the way they approach blogging if they are going to be a force in increasing public dialogue on political issues, says a joint study from American universities Ball State University and the University of Nevada, Reno. A study of blogs and audience engagement during the week before the fall 2006 US elections found that most newspaper staff-produced blogs contained a...

A Chinese TV journalist faces prosecution after he tried to pass off video footage of a circus tiger as evidence that a wild tiger lived in a forest park in southern China. It marked the latest in a series of cases in which China's media have questioned the authenticity of purported images of endangered animals. Wu Hua, a reporter with a local television station in Pingjiang county in southern...

Public awareness of the number of American military fatalities in Iraq has declined sharply since last August. Today, just 28 per cent of adults are able to say that approximately 4,000 Americans have died in the Iraq war. As of March 10, the Department of Defence had confirmed the deaths of 3,974 US military personnel in Iraq. In August 2007, 54 per cent correctly identified the fatality level at...

The mainstream media in the US isn't really losing audience as much as it had been hyped. Certainly not because of people switching over to the Internet as a news source. The Internet has profoundly changed journalism, but not necessarily in ways that were predicted even a few years ago. It was believed at one point that the Net would democratise the media, offering many new voices, stories and