Topic: Kathleen Carroll

Associated Press Opens North Korea Bureau

When Associated Press executives and journalists attempted to open a North Korean bureau last month, they arrived in Pyongyang just hours after the...
Survey finds America's crumbling trust in the news media's accuracy hits a 24-year lowThe news media's credibility is sagging along with its revenue.Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate ...
That's a flip from when Pew first asked that question in 1985, when 34 percent of respondents believed stories were frequently inaccurate.Pew also found that 74 percent of respondents believe stories tend to favor one side of an issue over ...

Computer Program Helps Drug Abusers Stay Clean

5/8/2008 Print E-mail The use of a computer-assisted training program, in addition to traditional counseling, helped drug abusers stay abstinent longer than counseling alone, a Yale University School of Medicine study found. They were randomly assigned to receive traditional counseling ...

Newspapers: Hook 'em online

Blogs, Online Chats and Databases Help Drive Readers to Sites, Newspapers ToldLuring new readers means connecting with them on the Internet through blogs, live online chats and interactive databases, industry leaders told newspapers editors Thursday.Amid a steady decline in newspaper advertising ...
AP Will Shut Down 'Asap,' a 2-Year-Old Premium Multimedia ServiceThe Associated Press is closing down a 2-year-old premium multimedia service that emphasized nontraditional methods of storytelling, saying that it had failed to gain enough traction with newspaper clients.The service, called "asap ...