by Leonard Pitts, Jr. | The Seattle Times
Sunday, June 03, 2007
BMSG research has found that media coverage of crime tends to overrepresent Black and Latinx individuals as perpetrators and underrepresent them as victims. Citing our work, columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. argues against white supremacists and conservative bloggers who falsely claimed the opposite to be true following the murder of a white couple in Tennessee. Referencing BMSG’s report “Off Balance,” he notes: “newspaper articles about white homicide victims are longer and more frequent than those about black ones; and interracial violent crime is more likely to be reported even though it is just about the rarest kind of violent crime.”
by Catherine Holahan | Bloomberg Businessweek
Thursday, May 17, 2007
A new study commissioned by Berkeley Media Studies Group highlights ways companies use the Web to promote unhealthy foods to youngsters and asks regulators to step in. To view more media coverage of the report, visit http://digitalads.org/press.php.by Sonja Herbert | Voices for a healthy future
Friday, September 01, 2006
Public health advocates can take note from a strategy baseball coaches have long used to bolster their chances at success: increase the skills of every player. Berkeley Media Studies Group can help advocates build this type of "bench strength" through media advocacy trainings that help rookies and veterans alike get better at making the case for healthy public policy.by Lori Dorfman | Voices for a healthy future
Sunday, May 01, 2005
How should public health advocates answer challenging arguments from companies that produce harmful products? These arguments often put responsibility for those harms squarely on the individual. BMSG director Lori Dorfman shows how public health practitioners and their allies can take steps to reframe that message.by Lori Dorfman | SFGate
Saturday, March 06, 2004
BMSG’s Lori Dorfman responds to an article that attempts to discredit physicians’ concerns about the obesity epidemic.
by John McManus, Lori Dorfman | Adviser Update
Monday, December 01, 2003
A child has a greater chance of being killed by lightning than in school. But you’d never know it from the flood of news coverage the followed the Columbine school shooting. An analysis of those articles as well as coverage of youth violence in general reveals what is missing from and what is overly hyped in stories on youth and crime. BMSG’s director and former BMSG researcher John McManus explain their study and its implications in this article.
by Lori Dorfman, John McManus | San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, May 04, 2003
The Laci Peterson killing drew reporters from around the globe, but what about other violence against women? Most doesn't meet today's standards of newsworthiness for crime because it's not dramatic together. In this article, BMSG director Lori Dorfman and Stanford University's John McManus offer research showing that the process for selecting what is or isn't newsworthy is systemically flawed, especially when it comes to covering violence against women.by Lori Dorfman | San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday, February 22, 2003
BMSG's Lori Dorfman calls for investments in workable alternative energy sources to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and lesson our dependence on oil.by Marjie Lundstrom | Sacramento Bee
Thursday, February 20, 2003
Intimate partner violence is commonplace, yet it is rarely newsworthy enough to make headlines. This article highlights research from the Berkeley Media Studies Group report Distracted by Drama, an analysis of all the articles on intimate partner violence that appeared in the Los Angeles Times and San Jose Mercury News in 2000.
by Lori Dorfman | Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, September 04, 2002
Violence has many causes and many solutions. Handgun availability is one of them, and reducing this variable helped contribute to the dramatic decline in violence during the 1990s.
