The UK automotive press and their changing attitudes to petrol power.

When REM sang ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it’ they were not predicting an apocalypse, but the end may be closer than they think. The Doomsday Clock is a representation of the fragility of human existence and represents just how close we are to the end of the world. It currently stands at five minutes to midnight.

The potential of virtual reality technology to change the news environment

In this paper I aim to show that the development of news technology has and continues to change the methods of news delivery and the users experience of news content. In doing so I also aim to show that at the start of the 21^st century we are on the verge of new breakthroughs in virtual reality technology that have the potential to fundamentally alter the news environment.

What is the value of investigative journalism in modern society?

Nick Davies in his book Flat Earth News highlights the fact that journalism has become merely ‘churnalism’, putting much of the blame on media conglomerates, which are keen on putting advertisers’ interests to the top of their priority list and at the same time applying minimal or no emphasis on producing good quality journalistic material for print and broadcast alike. If the daily news is in a dire state then what chance exists for investigative journalism to survive amidst this ever-changing world of news?

Agenda Setting: the Coverage of the Western and Eastern media to Beijing Olympic Game

Pulitzer said: “The news attracting people most is related to sports, scandal and crime news (Brian 2001)” .The Olympic Games as the international campaign is highlight to display in the world. The Olympic Game provides the perfect forum for cultural construction and presentation in that it is one of “modern society’s mega-event” (Roche 2000).Because the Olympic Games is “the largest and most important stage “(Tuggle, Hoffman and Rosengard 2002:361).Its potential scope and impact derive primarily from the mediated mature of the Olympics, particularly its coverage in television broadcasts. The 2008 Beijing Olympics has becomes the focus of attention all over the world

How Journalism’s Portrayal of the Thin Ideal contributes to Anorexia

Journalism plays a key role in the depiction of extremely thin celebrities and fashion models in magazines targeted for teenage girls and young women. Key magazines depict the image of the ideal body which celebrities possess. These images can be seen in magazines such as Heat, Closer, Reveal, Star, Love It and New only to mention a few.

Monsters, maniacs and madness: Press coverage of the English special hospitals

The Sun’s 2003 front page headline “Bonkers Bruno Locked up” attracted widespread censure (Cook, 2003), and was criticised as indicative of the tone of press coverage of celebrities with mental illness. The episode led to the replacement of the headline about the former heavyweight boxer with the anodyne “Sad Bruno in Mental Home” and a vow from The Sun’s editor Rebekah Wade to attend mental health training (ibid). More recently, use of the terms “nut”, “psycho”, and “schizo” have been criticised (Batty, 2008), and the social inclusion quango “Shift” have urged journalists to use less stigmatising terminology when reporting on the mentally ill.