When Journalists are Voiceless: How Lifestyle Journalists Cover Hate and Mitigate Harassment

Ethical Challenges for Journalists in Dealing with Hate Speech

How Political Science Can Help Journalism (and Still Let Journalists Be Journalists)

Political scientists frequently lament the media’s neglect of our research. Although reporters should have a basic understanding of the field, it is not reasonable to expect them to restate the conclusions of academic research on a daily basis. Moreover, it is not always clear how research findings apply within the conventions of political journalism, which is context-specific and episodic in n...

How Do US Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products, and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories

N ews stories about new treatments, tests, products, and procedures appear daily. Such reporting should ideally be accurate, balanced, and complete so that health care consumers are properly informed and ready to participate in decision making about their health care. If reporting is inaccurate, imbalanced, or incomplete, consumers may have unrealistic expectations and demand of their physician...

Journalists in El Salvador

The typical journalist in El Salvador is male, in his mid-thirties and holds a university degree in journalism or communication. Of the 250 interviewed journalists, 101 were women, making for a proportion of 40.4 percent of the overall sample. On average, journalists in El Salvador were 32.00 years old (s=9.27); half of the journalists were younger than 28 years. Journalists tend to be well edu...

Early man, late journalists

Science writers generally have it pretty easy. News usually doesn’t come as a surprise. A new finding is typically published in a journal, which reporters get in advance, or announced at a meeting. Sometimes, scientists simply too excited to wait even call a news conference. But every now and then, a bit of news slips out unannounced, and science writers are hung out to dry. That happened on Fr...