Journalism

The tablet could be just what the doctor ordered for the ailing newspaper industry.

The Pew Research Center’s annual Project for Excellence report indicates that the growing number of tablet computers and smartphones is contributing to an influx of people returning to traditional news sources, like newspapers, online. The growing use of social media has also led to more digital exposure to news stories through referrals.

We’ve seen this trend in our own analytics. Traffic to our mobile site has doubled in the last year, especially since we introduced an app.

PROVO -- Brigham Young University will scrap its daily newspaper for a weekly publication and put more emphasis on a digital reporting.

Stephen Glass faked all or parts of more than 40 articles for national magazines from 1996 to 1998. In 2003, he acknowledged that his violation of journalistic standards was so severe that he would "never be welcomed within journalism, and rightly so."

Now the California Supreme Court will decide whether Glass' behavior was so bad as to make him morally unfit to practice law.

WEST VALLEY CITY -- Mayor Mike Winder has admitted writing articles about his city for the Deseret News under a pen name without the paper's knowledge.

OGDEN -- Is the news media biased, pushing its own political agenda on a hapless public? Are people looking for objective news coverage or whatever version of the "truth" that confirms their existing prejudices?

And is the national media nothing more than a profit-driven business that caters to the lowest common interests of its audience, which may rank singer Beyonce's pregnancy announcement over news of terrorist Osama bin Laden's death?

At Weber State University recently, a panel of local education and media insiders tried to come up with answers during a discussion that lasted a bit more than an hour. The gathering was the first of this WSU school year's Taboo Talks, organized and hosted by WSU political science major Lonald Dean Wishom.

LONDON  — Several companies are hastily pulling ads from the British tabloid News of the World amid public disgust at allegations its employees hacked into the cell phones of missing schoolgirls and victims' families in London's 2005 transit attacks.

Matt Gerrish, Bryan Nielsen and Loretta Park have vastly different jobs and responsibilities in the Standard-Examiner's Content Center.

The three do share one thing in common: They are the winners of Golden Eyeshades, the department's top awards, for their outstanding work during 2010.

Matt edits, paginates and designs mostly sports stories and pages for the newspaper's print and e-editions. He also writes a sports blog and posts stories to our websites as a member of our Presentation Desk.