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Crying foul over online junk food marketing

by Catherine Holahan | Bloomberg Businessweek
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Junk food companies have become particularly adept at targeting young people at the greatest risk for obesity, and their marketers marketers insist the industry does not need government regulation. This article details these and other findings from a report commissioned by Berkeley Media Studies Group. To view additional media coverage of the report, visit http://digitalads.org/press.php.

Report: Affluent live longer (Purchase required)

by Suzanne Bohan | Oakland Tribune
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Where you live affects how long you live, shows a report from the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative, a collaboration of public health professionals from many cities and organizations including BMSG's parent organization, the Public Health Institute.

Green cities solve ills

by Lori Dorfman | New York Times
Thursday, November 08, 2007

Creating green cities is good for public health because, as BMSG director Lori Dorfman shows in this letter to the editor, health places mean healthy people.

Racial bias in media coverage of crime

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.”

Is online marketing making kids obese?

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.

Building ‘bench strength’ for public health advocacy [pdf]

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.

Framing public health: More than a message [pdf]

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.

Columbine: Framing youth violence [pdf]

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.

What the Laci Peterson story isn’t telling

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.
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