A Case Study on Media Misreporting

Number of words: 64 Mr Smith said in court, ‘I am terribly sorry. I have a dull life and I suddenly wanted to break away.’  He did not say, as we reported erroneously, ‘I have a dull wife and I suddenly wanted to break away. We apologise to Mr Smith, and to Mrs Smith.                                              -Daily … Read more

The Evolution of Accuracy in Journalism

Number of words: 117 Another now-famous example of error came a year later when the New York Times printed story after incorrect story about how the Bolsheviks in Russia were being soundly defeated. When the revolution was successful, the paper had a lot of backpedalling to do. Though errors and outright fabrications were on their … Read more

The Decline of Yellow Journalism: A Historical Perspective

Number of words: 398 THE SPANISH -AMERICAN WAR of 1898 and the Journal’s boisterous support for it would be another key death blow to the “journalism of action.” (Though support for the war was widespread among newspapers of the day, there were marked differences in how they behaved. Hearst’s paper managed to distinguish itself by … Read more

Journalism’s Role in Shaping National Identity During War

Number of words: 195 ‘How do you like the Journal’s war?’ asked the front page of William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal for two days in 1898. This evocative question likely elicited a common response from his readers of the day: ‘Just fine.’In April of that year, war broke out in Cuba between Spain, who … Read more

The Illusion of Truth in 17th Century Journalism

Number of words: 402 The newsbooks and early newspapers of the seventeenth century extolled accuracy and facts with rhetorical flair, but what they published in reality had no semblance of truth and accuracy. Newspapers peppered their pages with scandalous, often totally false accounts worthy of today’s most sensational tabloids, and political and religious partisanship was rampant. … Read more

Historical Insights into Gender Disparities in Indian Society

Number of words: 5,386 Everyone knows that South India and North India are very different in culture, language, and socio-economic development. But the most dramatic regional disparity may be in gender relations. Southern and North Eastern women are more likely to survive infancy, be educated, marry later, choose their own husbands, interact more closely with … Read more

Necessity – the mother of SouthWestern’s Turnaround Times

Number of words: 132 Southwest Airlines is famous for pioneering the ten-minute turnaround—the ability to deplane, prep, and board a plane in ten minutes. This ability helps an airline make more money, because the more the planes are in the sky, the better the company is doing. What few people realize is that this innovation … Read more