Israel’s treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern, saysJohn Pilger

London’s “left-leaning” newspaper props up Latin America’s most authoritarian government argues Joe Emersberger.

Matt Genner suggests that there is clear evidence of a partisan right-wing trend within the editorial stance and news reporting of the national press, and that this stance is visible today in the opinions expressed by political columnists.

The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom reports on a survey by the NUJ on the exploitation of young workers in media organisations.

The failure of the mainstream press to report accurately on the reasons for, and the devastation wrought by, the invasion of Iraq has had appalling consequences, write Media Lens.

The disproportionate coverage given to Israeli and Palestinian deaths, both in scale and in tone, demolishes media claims to impartiality and reveals them as cheerleaders for Western power, writes Media Lens.

Too much mainstream journalism is ‘war journalism’, being violence and victory-oriented, dehumanising the enemy and prioritising official sources. Richard Keeble puts the case for peace journalism by analysing a major text on the subject.

While Nick Davies’ ‘Flat Earth News’ is worth reading and sheds some light on the workings of the mainstream press, it fails to provide any kind of structural analysis, writes Media Lens.

Media Lens reviews Nick Davies’ book ‘Flat Earth News’, finding it to be based on assumptions and “rules” that are themselves of the ‘flat earth’ variety.

As the latest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip escalated, mainstream reporting again failed to provide the necessary context to the violence, writes Media Lens.

John Lanchester finds Nick Davies’ portrayal of a mainstream press crushed by commercial pressures and increasingly susceptible to official and corporate propaganda dark and convincing.

Mike Jempson, Director of the MediaWise Trust, looks at some of the results of a recent research project into the quality and independence of British journalism.

Hugh Cudlipp would have turned in his grave, says Nicholas Jones to hear Alistair Campbell’s ‘Cudlipp Lecture’.

One of the challenges of journalism in the 21st century society, writes Eronini R. Megwa, is confronting head on and with urgency such issues as poverty, HIV/AIDS, illiteracy, and the abuse of women and children.