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MIT Science Journalism Tracker Says African Rift Stories Example of “No News” Reporting

A spate of science coverage last week on a crack in Africa’s Great Rift Valley exemplifies one particular kind of...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Sunday Nov 1, the Detroit Free Press published a series of stories about the...

iMediaEthics has been working to critique and correct bad vaccine reporting this fall flu season. But this time, instead of...

We’ve written before about the potential harm done when the media report shallowly on medical issues, quote “experts” who aren’t,...

In an ongoing look at CNN correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s relationship with cyclist Lance Armstrong, StinkyJournalism opened a discussion with...

The spring and fall flu seasons this year have spurred a flood of sensationalist medical reporting focused on the H1N1...

One of the first rules of honest journalism is to approach a source or subject with an open mind. Sure,...

60 Minutes recently rebroadcast a 2007 story titled “The Age of Megafires,” which discusses the link between forest management policies,...

Last month a Wisconsin ABC affiliate, WKOW, sent letters to local doctors offering an advertising opportunity that seemed to imply that...