Articles tagged with media

Participants in a study were far more likely to “remember” a fictional news event when a headline was accompanied by a tangentially relevant photograph.

Disney’s animated films perpetuate the stereotype that beautiful people are smart, superior and successful, according to new research.

New research compares coverage of overseas news on Edward R. Murrow’s CBS and modern-day NPR, and finds public radio superior in numerous ways.

After initially being denied an American visa due to journalistic ties to rebel fighters, Colombian journalist Hollman Morris is allowed entry into the U.S. to study at Harvard.

In Googling “search” and “gross national product,” the government intervention homepage doesn’t show up — so far.

The late Stephen Schneider was one of the most influential and eloquent advocates for human-caused climate change.

The media are belatedly acknowledging a racial subtext to many anti-Obama protests, thanks to what one scholar calls the ‘drip’ factor.

Although it says rumors of the death of traditional news media are exaggerated, the Project for Excellence in Journalism catalogs some methods for staving off the demise.

In the wake of some devastating blazes, Sam Kornell asks why few major media properties have explored the connection between the changing complexion of wildfires and climate change.

The media may seem obsessed with Twitter because the people who are the media are obsessed with Twitter.

An electronic survey launched at the height of media coverage about swine flu — but by no means at the height of the current pandemic — puts data to public perceptions.

Tom Price is blogging for Miller-McCune.com from the 3rd annual Conference on Understanding Interventions That Broaden Participation in Research Careers.

… Is in the eyes of the beholder, who, it turns out, sees what the beholder wants its eyes to see.

As the ink dries up in the newspaper industry, a humorous video clip shows the conflicting sensibilities of old and new media.

Newsy.com, which crafts videos of today’s headlines that intentionally mash-up multiple reports from global media, is partnering with the Missouri School of Journalism.

Professor says today’s media are more willing to explore reasons behind the demonstrations.

A reader wonders whether Port of Anchorage project has earmarks of a boondoggle.

Research using brain-scanning technology finds that images of violence stimulate specific responses in the human brain that do not occur in reaction to other types of imagery.