Which country is most routinely miscovered in the U.S. press? Michael Massing asks in an article in the Columbia Journalism Review.
One could argue that most countries are miscovered through undercoverage. At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com, for example, our emphasis…
The Columbia Journalism Review — which identifies itself as “both a watchdog and a friend of the press in all its forms” — has endorsed FactCheck and PolitiFact as good online sites for verifying claims being made during the current debate over health care.
The Editors’…
President Barack Obama has used the term “ginned up” a couple times in recent weeks — which is a couple times more than most people. The presidential usage prompted the Columbia Journalism Review’s Merrill Perlman to investigate the phrase.
New York Times’ public editor Clark Hoyt weighed in this past weekend on recent “transgressions” by three Times journalists — Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman and Edmund Andrews. Hoyt describes the first two as “star columnists” and Andrews as an economics writer.
Phrases like…
Remember the first time you heard the words “went missing”? Chances are it wasn’t that many years ago. Remember the most recent time you heard it? Probably not that long ago.
Articles with “went missing” appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch…
Americans used local television as their primary news source in following the swine flu story last week, although they valued what they learned from the internet more. That’s according to a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Newspapers…
The British newspaper the Guardian and the alternative-weekly Mountain Xpress in Asheville, N.C., told their readers yesterday that they were dropping their print editions and would publish exclusively via Twitter.
Those were among newspapers’ April Fools’ Day hoaxes.
The Guardian “reported” on Wednesday:
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