As riots tore through Armenian capital Yerevan, the country's journalists remained preocupied with the presidential elections in neighbouring Russia. The people of the city had to fall back on outside news sources to know what was happenning in their own backyard. And now, with Armenian President Robert Kocharian declaring an emergency to control the violence, among the first to face its brunt has
Outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin and his chosen successor Dmitry Medvedev are benefitting from partisan broadcast media coverage in their favour, presidential election monitoring by the Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations (CJES) has shown. CJES Thursday released results of its monitoring of media coverage of candidates for the March 2 presidential election as well as of the
Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd (BCCL) is entering the public relations business in partnership with Mumbai-based PR consultancy and advertising group, Adfactors PR Pvt Ltd, says a Mint report. The new entity, Tatva Public Relations Pvt Ltd, will be a 33-67 joint venture, with the Adfactors group holding the majority stake. Tatva will manage and build the public image of firms in which BCCL holds...
NEW YORK: Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not trust press coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, according to a new Harvard University survey, which also revealed four out of five people believe coverage focuses too much on the trivial -- and more than 60% believe coverage is politically biased. The findings were among those in Harvard's Center for Public Leadership National Leadership...
BBC chiefs have ordered a wide-ranging review of Scottish news coverage, amid growing claims licence fee payers are being short-changed north of the Border. Scots get just 3% of the corporation's budget despite making up 8.4% of the UK's population, and there is concern that London-based BBC news executives are failing to cover major events in Scotland, particularly since devolution and the...
Last month I speculated that, amid declining newspaper sales, there is some evidence that the market for serious journalism remains strong. October's figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations have reinforced my optimism. Total sales are down across the board, but quality titles have suffered less than their red-top rivals. The Financial Times has increased its circulation again, up by 1.85 per...
A new president will be elected a year from now. Voters will look to the mainstream media, to alternative bloggers and to the candidates' Web sites to help decide who that president will be. A perennial complaint is that the media cover politics too much as a horse race instead of reporting more on the candidates' backgrounds, where they stand on issues and how they would lead the nation. But is...
They challenge your newspaper literacy, interrupt otherwise intelligible conversations, and add to the difficulty of finding your way. The culprits: India's endemic acronyms, abbreviations and initials. Bureaucrats across the world pack official reports with them, but India distinguishes itself by relishing in their everyday use, from place names to first names and even swear words. In the first...
It was billed as a bitter falling out of comrades on the left, a vicious civil war between two leaders of totemic papers of the liberal intelligentsia. But when the dust settled and the blood was mopped up, the casualty count stood at two – Roger Alton, the maverick, award-winning editor of The Observer, and his trusted lieutenant, executive editor Kamal Ahmed. Alton's sudden resignation last week...
A look at Israeli television channels and one can have a fair idea how far Israel lags behind in representing minorities. A regular TV viewer in Israel may never come across an Arab doctor advising on a flu virus, or an Arab lawyer giving tips on labour laws. Thanks to the almost no Arab presence on TV and radio. A recent study by the Israeli Centre for Strategic Communication has revealed some
