Liquid gold or Russian roulette? Risk and human milk sharing in the US news media

The global financial crisis (GFC) which began in 2007 with a liquidity squeeze in the US banking system and which continues to play out today has affected us all, whether through the collapse of the finance company sector, rising unemployment, falling housing prices or the recession which followed the initial market crash. The speed and scope of the crisis surprised most experts – policy makers included. Specialists from a myriad of disciplines, from economics and finance to risk management, corporate governance and property, are trying to make sense of what happened, why it happened and what it means for us now and into the future. Members of the public rely on the news media to keep them informed of the crisis as it unfolds and they rely on experts to translate these complex events into a language which they can understand. The GFC is educating us all, and it is important that we all learn from it to avoid making the same mistakes again.

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The lure of the local: ‘News’ definitions in community broadcasting

Pacific Journalism Review – Te Koakoa ◽

10.24135/pjr.v16i1.1016 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 178-191 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Susan Forde

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Radio Station ◽

Media Industry ◽

Community Radio ◽

Media Report ◽

The Us ◽

Australian Community ◽

Community Sector ◽

Close Investigation

Journalists and media researchers globally are increasingly expressing concern about trends in the news media industry which would appear to suggest a dire future for quality journalism, and thus democracy, in many developed democratic nations. The US State of the News Media report, now produced annually, regularly reports concerns by journalists and editors—and those who study them—about decreasing investment by news corporations in quality journalism (Pew Centre, 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008). The Australian Press Council has presented its own study to mirror that of the Pew Centre in an effort to report on the Australian context (APC, 2006; 2007). The author has, with colleagues from Griffith University, conducted research into the Australian community broadcasting sector for the past nine years. The research conducted since 1999 has been broad but this article will focus on one element of the research—the news and information services of community broadcasting. The community broadcasting sector is worthy of close investigation, because it is one of the few areas of the Australian media landscape that continues to grow. Importantly, quantitative research into the community sector indicates that 57 percent of the Australian population tune in at least monthly to a community radio station—and more than one in four listen at least weekly (McNair Ingenuity, 2008, p. 4). This article investigates the nature of community news offered by the Australian community radio sector through the perspectives of journalists and producers who deliver the news, and the audiences who access it.

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How Twitter drives the global news agenda: Tweets from Brazil, Russia, India, China, the UK and US and online discourse about the 2016 US presidential election

Global Media and Communication ◽

10.1177/17427665211039970 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 174276652110399

Author(s):

Jane O’Boyle ◽

Carol J Pardun

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Content Analysis ◽

News Media ◽

Presidential Election ◽

Online Discourse ◽

Political Communications ◽

The Us ◽

Us Presidential Election ◽

The Uk ◽

India And China

A manual content analysis compares 6019 Twitter comments from six countries during the 2016 US presidential election. Twitter comments were positive about Trump and negative about Clinton in Russia, the US and also in India and China. In the UK and Brazil, Twitter comments were largely negative about both candidates. Twitter sources for Clinton comments were more frequently from journalists and news companies, and still more negative than positive in tone. Topics on Twitter varied from those in mainstream news media. This foundational study expands communications research on social media, as well as political communications and international distinctions.

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Press: How the US news media made patient safety a priority

BMJ ◽

10.1136/bmj.324.7344.1044 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 324 (7344) ◽

pp. 1044-1044 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

M. L Millenson

Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

News Media ◽

The Us ◽

A Priority

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Characteristics of criminal cases against physicians charged with opioid-related offenses reported in the US news media, 1995–2019

Injury Epidemiology ◽

10.1186/s40621-020-00277-8 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Julia B. Berman ◽

Guohua Li

Keyword(s):

Money Laundering ◽

News Media ◽

Drug Trafficking ◽

Annual Number ◽

Criminal Cases ◽

Clinical Specialty ◽

The Us ◽

Media Reports ◽

Opioid Medications ◽

Legal Consequences

Abstract Background Pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors are intensely scrutinized in numerous lawsuits for their role in instigating the opioid epidemic. Many individual physicians have also been held accountable for activities related to prescribing opioid medications. The purpose of this study was to examine the epidemiologic patterns of criminal cases against physicians charged with opioid-related offenses reported in the US news media. Methods We searched the Nexis Uni® database for news media reports on physicians who had been arrested, indicted or criminally charged for illegally prescribing opioids between January 1995 and December 2019. Data collected from the news media reports include defendant’s age, sex, clinical specialty, type of crime and legal consequences. Results The annual number of criminal cases against physicians charged with opioid-related offenses reported in the US news media increased from 0 in 1995 to 42 in 2019. Of the 372 physician defendants in these criminal cases, 90.1% were male, 27.4% were 65 years and older, and 23.4% were charged in Florida. Of the 358 physician defendants with known clinical specialty, 245 (68.4%) practiced in internal medicine, family medicine, or pain management. Drug trafficking was the most commonly convicted crime (accounting for 54.2% of all convicted cases), followed by fraud (19.1%), money laundering (11.0%) and manslaughter (5.6%). Of the 244 convicted physicians with known sentences, 85.0% were sentenced to prison with an average prison term of 127.3 ± 120.3 months. Conclusions The US news media has reported on an increasing number of opioid-related criminal cases against physicians from a wide variety of clinical specialties. The most commonly convicted crime in these cases is drug trafficking, followed by fraud, money laundering, and manslaughter.

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Elected executions in the US print news media

Criminal Justice Studies A Critical Journal of Crime Law and Society ◽

10.1080/14786010903167161 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 345-365 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Glenn W. Muschert ◽

C. Lee Harrington ◽

Heather Reece

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Print News ◽

The Us

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A Mixed-Methods Observational Study of Human Milk Sharing Communities on Facebook

Breastfeeding Medicine ◽

10.1089/bfm.2013.0114 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 128-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Maryanne Tigchelaar Perrin ◽

L. Suzanne Goodell ◽

Jonathan C. Allen ◽

April Fogleman

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Observational Study ◽

Human Milk ◽

Human Milk Sharing

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Reaching vulnerable populations in the disaster-prone US Gulf Coast: Communicating across the crisis lifecycle

American Journal of Disaster Medicine ◽

10.5055/ajdm.2019.0323 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 121-136

Author(s):

Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, PhD ◽

Andrew M. Parker, PhD ◽

Rajeev Ramchand, PhD ◽

Melissa L. Finucane, PhD ◽

Vanessa Parks, MA ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Hurricane Katrina ◽

Vulnerable Populations ◽

News Media ◽

Gulf Coast ◽

Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽

Geographic Region ◽

Unique Challenge ◽

Response Strategies ◽

The Us ◽

Channel Preferences

Delivering risk and crisis communication to US Gulf Coast residents poses a unique challenge to individual and organizational responders. The region has endured several natural and man-made disasters, spanning Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and more recently Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. In the future, the US Gulf Coast is expected to remain susceptible to a range of disasters. At the same time, the region is experiencing a growing population, struggles with systemic disparities between residents, and is home to major energy, tourism, fishing, and shrimping industries. Engaging in pre-crisis planning with vulnerable populations, and assessing response strategies, can help the region prepare for future disasters. In support of understanding vulnerabilities in the US Gulf Coast, the authors conducted a survey in 2016 of n = 2,520 adult residents of the targeted geographic region. The authors examine how demographic characteristics affect communication channel preferences (ie, television, Internet, print [newspapers, magazines], radio, word-of-mouth, or another specified channel) and trust in sources (ie, the national news media, local news media, business leaders and organizations, religious leaders and institutions, academics and academic institutions, friends and family, and doctors) in the US Gulf Coast. Weighted prevalence estimates or similar summary statistics (mean, standard deviation) are provided for both outcomes. Findings for channel preferences and trust in sources are examined by sex, race/ethnicity, age, and education. Weighted multinomial logistic regression is used in a multivariate model. Weighted linear regression is used to examine differences in trust in each source of information. Results highlight significant differences in channel preferences and trust across respondents. The authors also place these results in context to more readily accessible national estimates of these outcomes, emphasizing takeaways for the region.

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The enigma of news media development with multi-pronged ‘capture’: The Afghanistan case

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884916670933 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (10) ◽

pp. 1233-1255 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jeannine E Relly ◽

Margaret Zanger

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Future Research ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

Us Military ◽

Foreign Intervention ◽

Western Government ◽

The Us ◽

Military Mission ◽

Media Work ◽

Purposive Sample

This qualitative study of influences on a purposive sample of Afghan journalists was carried out in the year after the US military mission was declared over. After more than a hundred million dollars of Western government funding had been invested in development of liberal democratic journalism, the study found the paradox of news media ‘capture’. We conceptualize this phenomenon further into political, bureaucratic, foreign-donor, and violent-actor capture. The study concludes that in countries with heavy foreign intervention, where imported journalism values are layered upon previous and continued institutional arrangements and where violence and instability continue unabated, news media work is prone to ‘capture’ by a variety of actors outside media organizations. We suggest that future research could refine a typology with six distinct forms of capture – economic, political, cultural, legal, bureaucratic, and societal.

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