Media

Governor Acts After N.Y. Times Series on Abused Immigrants New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) reacted to a New York Times series on the exploitation of Asian and Hispanic workers in New York nail salons byordering “emergency measures on Sunday to combat the wage theft and health hazards faced by the thousands of people” who work…

Post-Trayvon, Media Outlets Look Harder at Police “Chicago’s Jefferson Park police district is drawn around a leafy residential area on the Northwest Side, home to about one-fifth of the city’s police officers and their families ,” Angela Caputo reported Friday for the Chicago Tribune. “The district, which is predominantly white, also has one of the…

Dallas Readers Had to Opt In to See Provocative Images When an anti-Muslim group’s contest to see who could draw the most provocative cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad ended near Dallas Sunday with two assailants dead, one ethical challenge again faced news outlets: whether to show the images of Muhammad that caused the controversy, images some…

AP Reporter Interviews Freed Boko Haram Prisoners Michelle Faul, a veteran foreign correspondent who heads the Associated Press bureau in Lagos, Nigeria, interviewed liberated prisoners of the terrorist group Boko Haram in stories widely circulated around the globe last weekend. Boko Haram’s abductions had been the focus of a worldwide campaign last year to “#Bring Back…

Baltimore Shows Need for Care in Discussing “the Media” The longer the crisis in Baltimore continues, the more criticism seems to be aimed at the media. Ironically, many of the barbs are lodged in . . . the media. “Media’s Biased and Dehumanizing Coverage of Baltimore Fails to Tell the City’s Real Story,” read the…

Some Outlets Strive to Counterbalance Sensationalism The news media — particularly CNN and Fox News Channel — took their share of lumps Tuesday and Wednesday for sensationalizing coverage of the Baltimore uprising, but some outlets made an effort to explain the unrest’s decades-old underlying causes and resisted impulses to paint residents with a broad brush.…

Riots, Looting Follow Efforts to Show a Peaceful Face Critics denounced media organizations over the weekend for emphasizing violence over peaceful protests in their coverage of Baltimore reaction to the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray after he was injured April 19 in police custody. But on Monday, riots and looting broke out on the city’s west side,…

Station: Gates’ Cut “Unacceptable” If Based on Actor’s Urging Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Wednesday night expressed regret that he did not tell PBS that he had cut a reference to actor Ben Affleck’s slaveholding ancestor from his story on Affleck’s roots. His statement followed one from Affleck telling the actor’s social media fans on…

Slaver Is Omitted, His Story “Just Wasn’t as Interesting” Actor Ben Affleck asked Henry Louis Gates Jr. to edit out the fact that one of his ancestors owned slaves from Gates’ PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” according to messages in the massive November hacking of emails at Sony’s movie studio. The information did not appear…

Analysis Finds Even Those Convicted Serve Little Time “Among the thousands of fatal shootings at the hands of police since 2005, only 54 officers have been charged, a Post analysis found,” a headline read above a weekend enterprise story in the Washington Post. “Most were cleared or acquitted in the cases that have been resolved.”…