Turning a Critical Lens on Television News
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A former producer at "20/20" mimics Michael Moore in his aims but not his showmanship in this messy broadside against network news divisions.
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Sept. 9, 2004, will be remembered as a paradigm-shifting day in media history. That was the day the &quot;blogosphere&quot; took down CBS News.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Forays into the media spotlight in the wake of family tragedies can be psychologically harmful and counterproductive.
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The BBC may have contributed to an increased strain on serious news values, chairman Michael Grade says.
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Following the news can really get you bruised.
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When it comes to covering politics, journalists often fall into the 'he said, she said' trap without taking the time to delve into the details. The nonpartisan FactCheck.org jumps into the informational breach. By Louise Witt.
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A serious discussion on pressing national issues may be good for the country. But it isnât necessarily good television.
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The Huffington Post, with its rich content and breadth of coverage, may be an indicator of where news coverage is headed. We talk with Arianna Huffington about her site and how bloggers are reorganizing and reinventing the news.
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I'm a lifelong baseball fan, and I don't care if Roger Clemens took steroids, or if he is lying or if McNamee is lying.  News is stuff that's important. If it's national news, it's stuff that is important to everyone in the nation. Whether Clemens took steroids or not is a proper topic for a 60 Minutes, Fresh Air or Nightline segment. To take a whole day across all the cable channels the day after three pivotal primaries is very wrong. (And what if they do it again tomorrow? Oy.) So it's ridiculous that all the cable news channels are broadcasting the full testimony of Roger Clemens and his accuser. Hours of repetitive questions and the same answers, over and over, while there is news happening in the world. I know because I'm subscribed to the MSNBC and AP feeds on Twitter. I have a Google Alert that shows me results of all the campaign conference calls. (There have been a couple this morning, from Obama and McCain, I'd love to get MP3s, and still looking for a feed.) It's time for some serious routing-around, or for the cable news programmers to get back on the job.  Cross-posted at Huffington.
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NBC, CBS and ABC - have provided news and entertainment to American television viewers for decades. Each network broadcasts the evening news at 6
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A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that user-generated news sites cover markedly different topics from mainstream news sites.
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How an irreverent Internet news channel is shaking up British politics
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A TV review of Thursday's presidential debate could have mostly been written before airtime. And it was, by many critics.
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Long before the mass media overload of television, radio and computers, newspapers were the main source of information on local, national and international events.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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A member of the audience gives his take on the show and host.
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A satirical look at the ever-growing list of cable channels.