News media are major channels for the transmission of information to the public and deliver news about the latest developments regarding health issues such as climate change. How the media frame such information may enhance public understanding and enable appropriate responses by individuals and communities. This study follows up on …
Aleading economic daily in the UK developed cold feet at the last minute about an ad hostile to the oil company Shell. The refusal by the Financial Times has outraged the UK branch of Amnesty International. The ad was due to appear in the third week of May to coincide …
On March 28, a newspaper with an innovative business model evolved by a group of journalists and academics hit the stands in Chile’s capital Santiago. Diaro Uno (Newspaper One) promises to give a voice to those left out by the country’s media. Marcel Claude, the weekly paper’s editor-in-chief, said Diaro …
In March 2004, a group of Dalit women from Uttar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region stood on a stage in a plush Delhi auditorium. Th-ey were honoured with the Chameli Devi Award for outstanding media work. The same year, three of their colleagues received fellowships from the Dalit Foundation in Delhi for …
Much research has now been conducted into the representation of climate change in the media. Specifically, the communication of climate change from scientists and policy-makers to the public via the mass media has been a subject of major interest because of its implications for creating national variation in public understanding …
Three Venezuelan press associations have declared the country a “disaster zone” for the practice of journalism, while denouncing “government persecution” of the media. The National Journalists College, the National Press Workers Union and the Graphic Reporters Circle issued a communique in which they said “this is a time to exercise …
Canada’s second-oldest magazine has bowed to the vicissitudes of the Internet. It is changing its name because its unintended sexual connotation has caused the history journal to become snagged in Internet filters and has turned off potential readers. The Beaver was founded in 1920 as a publication of the Hudson …
It seems like the publishing version of Steven Spielberg movie where alien invasion causes traditional adversaries to join together. On January 6, 56 newspapers, in Pakistan and India, in Israel and Lebanon, in Taiwan and China, in Greece and Turkey, in Africa and in North, South and Central America published …
A gathering of almost 45,000 people in one city for 10 days is bound to prompt publishers to come out with special issues. The most successful operation was COP 15 Post, a daily special by the English language Copenhagen Post. Copies were available everywhere, from metro stations to markets, apart …
Remember the Yes Men? Last year, they brought out a perfect fake edition of New York Times declaring the end of Gulf War. They were at the climate negotiation as well. On December 14, journalists all around the world received a press release from Canada’s environment agency Environment Canada, declaring …
What does Bhilwara have that the rest of rural India needs? A Member of Parliament (MP) who changes with the times. CP Joshi, Union minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, and the MP from Bhilwara, initiated the biggest social audit in India in his own constituency to find out …
In 1973, Leonardo Henrichsen turned his film camera on the soldier who was aiming at him and held it steady until he was shot to death. But the justice system never caught up with the killer of the Argentine journalist, murdered in Chile while he was filming a military uprising. …
Two paragraphs in its introductory section have blighted an article on stem cell research. Graham Parker, editor of Stem Cells and Development, told the science journal Nature that his publication was retracting the study by scientists at Britain
>> TV movie distributers in the US have reduced plastic content in their DVD cases, making it 20 per cent lighter.Though reducing plastic waste is being cited as a motivator, thinner cases are also less expensive when it comes to the cost of raw material and shipping. Companies like Sony …
An owner with a billion pound fortune, it seems, is no security for the media during these times of financial downturn. Even for the leading environmental monthly, the Ecologist. The magazine will cease print publication from June 19. The UK-based Goldsmith family
>> A independent daily newspaper will be launched in Zimbabwe, adding a new dimension to the news market currently dominated by government controlled dailies. >> Google Inc is soon to roll out free software which allows consumers to track their home electricity use and improve energy efficiency. Dan Reicher,director, Climate …
No news is good news, goes the proverb. The people of Guinea-Bissau disagree. The nation of 1.6 million people in West Africa has gone without newspapers for almost two months because of a paper crisis.
Many critics have passed their verdict on newspapers. The Internet will surpass them, they hold. An American start-up wants to start dozens of new ones
