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This new Labour wheeze for compulsory homework is terribly exciting. I've mentioned it to a couple of friends, broken by years of teaching, and it put real heart into them. [...]

Another problem with today's media is their ignorance about how the government really works. Consider a recent front-page article in the Wall Street Journal entitled 'Billions of Bloat Uncovered in [...]

Insights on how mass media represents developing countries are given. Television audiences generally perceive the coverage of developing countries as all doom and gloom and media fails to feature the rich, personal stories in countries such as Sri Lanka and North Korea. Examples of works that present the brighter side of developing countries are given.

Mainstream media around the world launched into a full-fledged, often vicious attack on Pope Benedict XVI following his December. 22, 2008, Christmas address to the Roman Curia. The furor began […]

I read an article on media in Reuters recently that began with the sentence, 'We all know media fragmentation makes it harder than ever to reach today's over-media-extended consumers.' It's [...]

A while back, sports editor Henry Freeman was confronted by a scowling wife and daughter and a chastising note from a female assistant news editor. The reason: While he was [...]

The value of positive media coverage is--to paraphrase the credit card commercial--'priceless,' and often overlooked by senior communities. The printed word has a 70% greater retention rate than traditional advertising. [...]

Last month (April 17, to be precise) was the 25th anniversary of Canada s Charter of Rights and there as much celebration around Canada s Universities, at the CBC, and […]

Since her death in February, Anna Nicole Smith has been on the tube around the clock. We've homed in like vultures on this and other celebrity stories. The nation may […]

I was shocked by what The Chicago Tribune did to Jack Ryan. The Republican candidate to be United States senator from Illinois was forced to withdraw when Tribune reporters persuaded [...]

An interesting new course offering has shown up in the Ball State catalog, the product of collaboration between the departments of journalism and economics. It's called 'Statistics for the Media,' [...]

The big winners in recent Audit Bureau of Circulations reports have been celebrity magazines, with the majority of titles experiencing impressive circulation gains. EMAP's Heat has continued its success story, […]

THERE ONCE MAY HAVE BEEN some logic in having two-dozen reporters or more, many equipped with cameras and microphones, cover a public event such as a trial, a crime scene, [...]

There was some good news from the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) conference completed in early September in Johannesburg, neglected news that barely appeared in U.S. mainstream media. To [...]

Three weeks ago, Auberon Waugh wrote the New Statesman diary. Characteristically, he used it to make a very clever joke (at least, I think it was a joke; you can [...]

It takes some finesse to wring a social statement out of a picture of Anthea Turner, lightly oiled, naked and entwined with a python. Undaunted, the Daily Telegraph had a [...]

On February 28 a French team unlike any other is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary as a champion. It has been present at virtually every major sporting event in the past [...]

'I think that magazine companies have to be careful not to let the glamorous technological advances in computers and communications rob us of our commonsense and practicality,' says Chris Little, [...]

In our August 1992 issue, MM&M asked for your opinions on whether the pharmaceutical industry is doing enough to state its case to the public, and if not, what should [...]

The President's trip to the Far East was presented by his media handlers as being focused on only one thing: jobs, jobs, jobs. Some would say he got: nothing, nothing, [...]