by Sydney Smith on Mar 29, 2011
Gender Bias in Indonesia?
A study from Indonesia's Alliance of Independent Journalists reported this month that Indonesian media is "guilty of blatant gender-bias," the...
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by Sydney Smith on Dec 27, 2010
Bylines Led to Celebrity Journalism?
The International Business Times reported that a new study has found that "the proliferation of bylines characterized the news as an...
by Claudia Haas , Sydney Smith on Oct 29, 2010
iMediaEthics Study: 68% Ten Top US Newspapers’ Blogs Are Edited
Clark Hoyt, the New York Times public editor, published a column on May 29 that addressed readers' reactions to, and concerns about, a...
by Sydney Smith on Jul 20, 2010
Study Finds 4 Biggest U.S. newspapers no longer calling Waterboarding Torture
A recently released report, "Torture at Times: Waterboarding in the Media", studied the media's treatment of the word torture and...
by Sydney Smith on May 11, 2010
New Ethics for the Non-Profit Newsroom?
iMediaEthics is a non-profit news site. On April 26, three journalism centers published a roundtable report, “Ethics for the New Investigative Newsroom"...
by Sydney Smith on Apr 14, 2010
More bloggers call themselves journalists. Does it matter?
A new study published by PRWeek and PR Newswire indicates that 52% of bloggers consider themselves journalists. This is a...
by Molika Ashford on Mar 08, 2010
CJR Study : Magazines’ Web Content Copy editing is done ‘Less Rigorously’
This week, the Columbia Journalism Review published the results of their survey of editorial practices at magazine Web sites (Web...
by Molika Ashford on Jan 26, 2010
Study Finds Mainstream Media, Not New Media, Write Most “New” Stories in Baltimore
A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism has found that 95% of original stories (those with new information)...
by Katie Rolnick on Nov 05, 2009
Journalism Ethics Textbooks Take New Approach: Case Studies from Gene Foreman’s Book
In his new book, The Ethical Journalist: Making Responsible Decisions in the Pursuit of News, former managing editor of the...
by Danielle Mastropiero on Mar 18, 2009
National Survey Says: 94% of Journalists Use P.R. Material
A survey conducted by media intelligence company Cison in conjunction with George Washington University showed rather unsettling results about the...