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News coverage of genetic cloning in three major print newspaper and three major online news sources from 1996 to 1999 is examined using both quantitative and qualitative methods to systematically access issues of balance, sourcing, new focus and language use in news articles about cloning is presented. The results indicate that elements such as choice of sentence structure and verb tense contributed to the positive orientation of reporting on cloning.

Television news organizations' use of unofficial sources in their coverage of the 1992-1993 controversy over gays in the military service was analyzed. Results revealed that news organizations based their decision in choosing unofficial sources on journalists' understanding of newsworthiness, their definition of expertise and the news frame they choose to structure individual stories. The results implied that television news organizations exert minimal effort to obtain views from experts who will present the controversy in a broader social or historical context.

Comparison of the News of Boca Raton and 10 Michigan dailies finds leads in revitalized Florida paper about the same as the average in Michigan papers.

LAST SPRING, THE OVERSEAS writers club held one of its periodic lunches with an administration official as guest. It was a typical Washington occurrence, an arranged cross-pollination session in a [...]

Some of my best friends are investigative reporters, so what follows is argued with no small amount of trepidation. My friends are a bit thin-skinned, you see, because their work [...]

The ethical considerations involved in the practice of news rescue by journalists are analyzed based on the contractual-proprietary and ethical issues of the practice. News rescue consists of one reporter passing on a story that cannot be carried by the newspaper for some reason, to a reporter affiliated with another organization. The considerations revolve around the values of journalists expressed in terms of their loyalty to their employers or to the public who are entitled to the information. News rescue prioritizes public interest over company loyalty, hence the ethical and legal conflict.

Damage control is an effective public relations method which can be used when imparting crucial news to the press in times of crisis, such as accidents, scandals and the like. The absence of any crisis management technique under such circumstances could lead to a distortion of facts, since the media thrives on bad news and automatically looks for a scapegoat to absorb the blame. An effective damage control procedure is discussed.

A study aims to understand the extent and seriousness of the epidemic in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and to seek answers to questions on whether the reporting of the disease in the PNG press increased or decreased since the last study in 2002 and also whether the news stories strive to educate readers about the disease. The term 'HIV/AIDS' is used to include the two different stages of infection, people living with the HIV and those with AIDS.

While many reporters and editors read trade publications, they don't rely on them very much for ethical advice. Walter Cronkite has called Columbia Journalism Review the conscience of American journalism.(1) [...]

Governmental and business sources dominate coverage of the Clean Air Act. Consumers and environmentalists are seldom used as sources. Sources are an integral part of news reporting. Those who have [...]

The Surgeon General's report on AIDS brought the Federal government into the issue with the result that use of government sources increased substantially. Despite recent encouraging declines in deaths, Acquired [...]

What happens when reporters are shut out by sources whom they believe are necessary to report a story? Several journalists at the Watchdog Conference argued that reporters often do their [...]

Most of the heavy lifting for the issue you now hold in your hand has come from GJR staffers Scott Lambert and Jennifer Butcher, and the publication's publisher, William Freivogel. [...]

This is not a growth time for media accountability tools. In fact, not one of the six major media accountability tools is as healthy as it was at the end [...]

When Larry Platt took over as editor of the Philadelphia Daily News on January 31, he sketched out an audacious new approach for the shorthanded but aggressive tabloid. 'We will [...]