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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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’ [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Until recently, there were two types of newspaper website: those that made you pay to read many of the articles (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times) and those that didn’t. That is changing. The New York Times recently announced that almost all its online material would now be free. FT.com [...]

As struggling newspapers across the country cut back on investigative reporting, a new kind of journalism venture is hoping to fill the gap. Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years, and a pair of wealthy Californians are assembling a group of investigative journalists who will give away [...]

Ninety-two percent of people consider newspapers to be a “necessary” or “somewhat necessary” source of information and knowledge, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they “greatly trusted” or “moderately trusted” reports carried by newspapers, the survey said. Although more people are turning to the Internet for news and information, the vast majority [...]

New Delhi: For the past few weeks, Indian newspapers have seen a steady drumbeat of media stories on a case involving four employees of Mid-Day tabloid newspaper and their legal woes. The fairly innocuous stories about a former chief justice of India and potential conflict of interests drew the wrath of the Delhi high court, which [...]

Swedish journalists’ views diverge wildly from those of their readers, with the average journalist well to the left of the public as a whole, according to a new survey. While normal Swedes want tax cuts and favour retaining nuclear power, Swedish journalists reject both ideas. The findings are presented in a book published on Wednesday by [...]

Conservative syndicated columnists in the United States (US) get more space than their progressive counterparts, a new study has revealed. Though papers may be “willing to consider” progressive syndicated columnists, this unprecedented study reveals the true extent of the dominance of conservatives. The findings are based on the survey carried out by Media Matters for America [...]

If a new crop of user-news sites and measures of user activity on mainstream news sites are any indication, the news agenda of teh future will be more diverse, more transitory, and often draw on a very different and perhaps controversial list of sources, according to a new study. The report, released by the Project for [...]

NEW YORK USA Today turns 25 years old on September 15th, 2007, and in an effort to mark the occaision the paper will look back at the Top 25 Headlines That Shaped (Recent) History. The number one choice is the fall of communism. These stories are the ones that generated the largest headlines, the greatest interest [...]

Almost half of the articles published by daily newspapers in the US contain one or more factual errors, and less than two per cent end up being corrected. The findings are from a forthcoming research paper by Scott R Maier, an associate professor at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. The findings challenge [...]