In September 2002, the Mayo Clinic National Conference on Medicine and the Media convened to consider the accurate, timely, and responsible reporting of medical news to the public. The more than 500 participants included medical and health journalists, scientific journal editors, physicians and other health care professionals, industry representatives, government officials, institutional public...

The role of algorithms in the detection, curation and broadcast of news is becoming increasingly prevalent. To better understand this role we developed CityBeat, a system that implements what we call “editorial algorithms” to find possible news events. This fully functional system collects real-time geo-tagged information from social media, finds key stories, makes an editorial decision whether...

OBJECTIVE To compare the perceptions of patients, doctors, and journalists concerning the priority of health education topics in the media. DESIGN A cross sectional Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (K.A.P.) study. A self-administered questionnaire was used during 2 weeks in September 1990; it included questions on sociodemographic characteristics and on each group's perceived opinion of prio...

The ways in which journalists frame stories about disparity and inequality help to shape the ways in which the general public understands social problems. Increasingly stories about racial disparity are framed in terms of comparative risk. These stories consistently present an image of African Americans who are more likely to be victims or losers in some societal game of chance. Through an anal...

Journalists who cover scientific research, including chemistry research, have an obligation to report on alleged cases of research misconduct when knowledge of these surface. New Government definitions of research misconduct, beginning in the late 1990s with the Clinton Administration, have helped scientists, policymakers, as well as journalists sort out and make sense of alleged research misco...

Past studies conceived of journalists-audience relations as largely dyadic, highlighting the interaction between two sides. The current study argues that such a conceptualization should now be modified to fit today’s media environment, where these interactions obtain on social platforms. Through process platformization—the subjugation news production logic—these platforms are reshaping journali...