Sensationalism and Sensationalizing in the News Media

The Hot Bed of Sensationalism: H1N1 news reporting from Hong Kong

The translation of the headline for Ming Pao, a Chinese newspaper’s special report on the H1N1 virus in North America,...

The Pig in a Garden: Jared Diamond and The New Yorker series: Art Science Research Laboratory's imediaethics.org and SavageMinds.org is...

A recent article by the New York Daily News on a little-known disease spread by raccoons left some readers rabid...

You read the headlines: CNN blares "Pirates vow to kill U.S., French sailors." It is certainly exciting. A "vow" of...

Either Boston has run out of news or the media has given up fighting the death of print. The Boston...

WHY IS THE MAN WITH THE "WORLD'S LONGEST EAR HAIR" PAIRED WITH THIS YOUNG BOY WITH A HEART DEFECT? The...

On the evening of February 19, preeminent gossip blog TMZ ran a mysteriously leaked photograph of Rihanna purportedly from the...

Were the pilots, captain Marvin D. Renslow and first officer Rebecca Lynne Shaw, at fault for leaving the auto-pilot on...

Huffington Post reported that Los Angeles Times writer, Andrew Blankstein, was the first to reveal pop star Rihanna as the...