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NPR Listeners Get a Sour Taste from the Media’s Obsession with Mel Gibson
From July 12-17 media coverage of Mel Gibson eclipsed both the Iraq and Afghan wars, fell to the Gulf oil spill. by Matthew L. Schafer Fresh off of its name change, NPR is finding itself in hot water...
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Closing Time and Final Thoughts on the Future of Journalism
One of my personal highlights: Being listed next to the likes of Reuters, NPR, and The New York Times at the media website Mediagazer. by Matthew L. Schafer Dear Reader, Thank you for taking time out...
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Controversy? Not Really, NPR Preserves Journalistic Norms
by Matthew L. Schafer NPR created unintended controversy this week when NPR Chief Executive Vivian Schiller and Senior Vice President for News Ellen Weiss sent out staff memos advising NPR staff not...
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NPR Drops Williams, Right Wing Calls Foul
by Matthew L. Schafer On Wednesday, NPR terminated the contract of Juan Williams, a long time news analyst for the station, after Williams made remarks about his anxieties when seeing Muslims in...
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My View: Public Media Is More Important than Political Platitudes
Source NPR by Matthew L. Schafer A little known bill, introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn [R-CO] this summer is being revitalized by NPR’s firing of news analyst Juan Williams. Despite some...
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NPR Fesses Up to WikiLeaks’ Coverage Blunder, Now It’s Everyone Else’s Turn
by Matthew L. Schafer Today, NPR issued a correction relating to its coverage of the WikiLeaks’ saga. NPR’s correction reads: In recent weeks, NPR hosts, reporters and guests have incorrectly said or...
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SPJ President Makes WikiLeaks Error, Fails to Indicate Correction
Update: SPJ, in reaction to a recent article by the Columbia Journalism Review, recently corrected the error and posted the correction. SPJ’s correction reads: “Correction and update [1/7/2011]: The...
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What NPR’s Juan Williams Blunder Can Teach News Organizations
by Matthew L. Schafer On Thursday, NPR released the conclusion of a team of lawyers who examined the firing of senior news analyst Juan Williams. Williams was fired by Ellen Weiss, NPR’s senior vice...
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NPR: Battered, Beaten, and Broken, but Still Important
On Tuesday, NPR went on the defensive as the conservative Daily Caller posted a video of an NPR executive calling the Tea Party "racists." by Matthew L. Schafer On Tuesday, The Dailey Caller posted an...
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Ombudsman Asks, Should Reporters Draw Conclusions?
by Matthew L. Schafer Over at NPR, Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos recently asked readers and journalists to respond to a variety of question that arose out of a NPR investigation into the practices...
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