I slated recent BBC (and other) coverage of a survey on how children seem to be failing to learn to talk. Luckily for the media, here’s a handy guide from pressure group Panos on how to approach research to create better journalism. Panos has its own agenda, of course (promoting “the participation of poor and […]
Every journalist and his dog seems to add this redundant phrase to whatever story they’re writing (or presenting, if it’s on TV or radio). Here’s a typical example (from the Telegraph): “Amazon releases Kindle for iPhone but are there enough ebooks out there?” Uh – out where, exactly? If the story is asking whether there are enough enough […]
Yesterday’s “news” carried two items that should have been shocking in their inability to separate hysteria and PR puffery from proper reporting. If that wasn’t really what the modern media is all about. The stories are from supposedly opposite corners of the media ring – one super serious, the other light-hearted. Each is crap in […]
Here’s a fine example of journalistic excellence from that paragon of local journalism the Bloom Beacon. Makes you proud…
Spotted on Yahoo News: Beyoné leads the way at the Grammys Ouch…
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Last in this series of videos and write-ups of Reed Business Information editorial development director Karl Schneider’s talk to journalism students at UCA Farnham. The discussion comes as a result of a typically trenchant question from pugnacious student newspaper editor Michael Copus. It’s one that […]
If you thought editorial integrity was being undermined in the UK, take a look at the Times of India. Indian journalism blogger Sans Serif has an interesting post on an investigation by finance journalist Sucheta Delal on the way the Times of India not only sells news coverage in the paper, but also uses that coverage to […]
I’ve only just come across this recent study from the Pew Research Center in the US, which finds that public confidence in the accuracy of the news media is at a two-decade low. Apparently only 29% of Americans polled trusted news organisations to be accurate, while only 26% thought they were unbiased. It’s also interesting […]
For anyone who enjoys headline and typo of the day-type sites, Criggo has some top-flight material. I particularly liked the slightly surreal “Protesters protest protest-signs protest” here. A sub’s dream… [HT: Jessica]
I love this old Time Magazine story on climate change from 1974. As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. Yes, well. It just goes to […]