Sensationalism Issues Journalism

Deals with criticism of journalism that features sex scandals, scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or other unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists. Also termed "Yellow Journalism", it has been loosely defined as "not quite libel".

• Selling the Kid: The Role of Yellow Journalism - Historical examination of the Yellow Kid, a late nineteenth-century cartoon, and how its rise and fall as an iconic image in American newspapers was closely linked to yellow journalism.
  
• Poynter: Parachute Journalism - Explains the damage wrought when the reporters with little knowledge or experience perpetuate regional stereotypes.
  
• Wikipedia: Yellow journalism - Traces the origins of this term in the history of American press.
  
• Wikipedia - Parachute journalism - Describes an often derogatory term used to denote the reportage of mere basic details devoid of contextual issues or facts.
  
• BBC: Chequebook Journalism in the Dock - Nick Higham discusses the implications of chequebook journalism following the collapse of a high-profile criminal trial, the Beckham "kidnap" case.
  
• The Jakarta Post: Pay, Training 'Key' to Ending Envelope Journalism - Coverage of a seminar detailing methods to counter amplop (or envelop journalism) - a process where news-makers bribe some reporters to get biased stories.
  
• Not likely sent: The Remington-Hearst "telegrams" - Article by associate professor W. Joseph Campbell challenging an enduring anecdote of yellow journalism. He maintains there is little if any evidence of the exchange of telegrams between Remington and Hearst.
  
  

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