Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Hard Times and Hard Policies During the Cold War, public debate over foreign policy focused on the confrontation with the Soviet Union. There was widespread support for the strategy of containment-disagreements were essentially over tactics. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the display of overwhelming American military power in the Persian Gulf War, […]
Public Opinion Consumers are increasingly worried about the loss of their privacy, and have heightened concerns when it comes to their health information. They worry that their health information may be used or disclosed inappropriately and leave them vulnerable to unwanted exposure, stigma, discrimination and serious economic losses. They fear that their personal information will […]
Conclusion More health-related information is being collected and shared about individuals than ever, and until the release of the federal health privacy regulation in December 2000, there were almost no federal legal limits on how this information could be used and disclosed. By focusing on electronic transactions, the privacy regulation required by HIPAA aimed to […]
“Horror Stories” News stories have highlighted various types of privacy violations related to health information. The new federal privacy regulation will address only some violations of privacy that can occur online. The following examples are violations previously reported by the press. None of them are covered by the privacy regulation since compliance with the regulation […]
This study was conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a journalists’ group in Washington, D.C., affiliated with the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Tom Rosenstiel, director of the PEJ, was lead writer. Carl Gottlieb, the deputy director, supervised all aspects of the study. Atiba Pertilla and […]
Personal accounts An eyewitness account johnreinan on The Well Tue 11 Sep ’01 This is an eyewitness account from a friend of mine. He e-mailed it to another friend, who forwarded it to me. I’m not able to contact my friend to get his permission to post this, so I’m leaving off his name. But […]
National Press Club Washington, D.C. A discussion with: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Professor, University of Chicago and Co-chair, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Professor Elshtain is a political philosopher whose task has been to show the connections between our political and our ethical convictions. Her works include Augustine and the Limits of Politics and […]
Introduction Washington, D.C., is in some ways the latecomer among the five cities studied when it comes to adapting to the Internet, but that does not mean that citizens and government officials have not been aggressive in pursuing Internet opportunities. The city is actively trying to promote dot-com development downtown through networks of entrepreneurs who […]
It’s becoming clearer, over dozens of stations, thousands of stories, and millions of viewers. There are some things we can demonstrate audiences want. They are characteristics commercially successful stations share – whether this study rates them as good quality stations or bad. They are the things news directors should ask for in their budget meetings, […]
Washington, D.C. Discussants: Gary Bass, OMB Watch Rev. Stephen Burger, International Union of Gospel Missions Bill Faith, Ohio Coalition on Housing and Homelessness Richard Foltin, American Jewish Committee Richard G. Overmoyer, Jr., Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Darren Walker, Abyssinian Development Corporation Moderated by: Melissa Rogers, Executive Director of the Pew Forum on Religion & […]