1. Media Coverage of Poverty: Quality, Not Just Quantity, Matters
(Matching tags: new york times, poverty, media)

In a new Nieman Reports article, Dan Froomkin argues that the media pay insufficient attention to poverty. Discussing Froomkin’s piece, Margaret Sullivan, the Public Editor of the New York Times, notes: ...

2. The Guardian vs. the Conventional Wisdom on Venezuela
(Matching tags: venezuela, media)

Earlier this month my colleague Dan Beeton noted that the major media, after incorrectly predicting a close race in Venezuela’s presidential elections, had quickly reverted to the familiar “gloom and doom” ...

3. 'Times' Fails to Include Expert Opinion in Discussing Argentina Media Law
(Matching tags: media coverage, media, Argentina)

In a New York Times article over the weekend, Simon Romero and Emily Schmall report on the “battle” between the Argentine government and Grupo Clarín, the country’s largest media conglomerate. The “battle” ...

4. Honduras’ Party Primaries: Voters Went to the Polls, But Can Next Year’s Elections be “Free and Fair”?
(Matching tags: coup, elections, media, Honduras, Facusse, ICC, LIBRE)

... civil society offices and censored media outlets. An Amnesty International spokesperson declared, “Justice seems to have been absent also on Election Day in Honduras," and most Latin American countries ...

5. Attacks on Freedom of the Press…in Paraguay and Honduras (is anybody listening?)
(Matching tags: media, Honduras, paraguay, press freedom)

Last week, my colleague and fellow-blogger Jake Johnston, wrote a blog post on the attacks to freedom of the press in Chile, pointing out that media reports and U.S. based human rights organizations often ...

6. Media Bias in Venezuela
(Matching tags: venezuela, media)

Everywhere you look, there are people who are taking seriously the claim that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has a big media advantage over the opposition in the upcoming elections.  The Committee to ...

7. The NYT and the 'Disorganized Single-Mother' Meme
(Matching tags: poverty, media, children, inequality, working class, marriage)

I remember being struck several years ago by David Brooks' odd use of the adjective "disorganized" to describe single-parent families. As he put it in the New York Times in 2007: "A human capital agenda ...

8. One Poverty Roll Please, Hold the Mayo!
(Matching tags: poverty, media, working class, etymology)

Today's New York Times has a story on the disproportionate increase in income poverty among people living in the suburbs. Over the last 10 years, the number of people with incomes below the austere U.S. ...

9. Ansel Herz: "How to Write About Haiti"
(Matching tags: media)

After the initial whirlwind of coverage of the earthquake the media's attention wained considerably. Last week, which marked sixth months since the quake, saw a spike in coverage as many journalists returned ...