Sites about how the media, such as newpapers, magazines, radio, and television, cover tobacco news and issues. This includes sites about factors that influence how they cover it. 1. Coverage of Smoking in Women's Magazines - A review of 13 magazines across 5 months finds they dispense a lot of health advice but say little about smoking. Over that same period, those magazines ran over 300 cigarette ads. 2. Tobacco Coverage in Popular Magazines: 1996-1999 - Research finds that tobacco gets less coverage in magazines than other health topics. 3. Youth Smoking and the Media - A project to study how television, anti-smoking advertising, and newspaper coverage of tobacco issues affects youth smoking. 4. Ben Bagdikian Interview - Media critic notes influence of tobacco advertising on reporting: "papers that used to sieze upon every disease -- muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, huge articles, pictures of the pitiful victims -- never had the same thing about the victims of tobacco". 5. Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits - Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked". 6. Censored: The Leaked ABC Tape - In March 1994, ABC killed a "Turning Point" documentary on Big Tobacco. The text and some of the video (as QuickTime clips) is now available on this site. 7. CJR - ABC, Philip Morris and the Infamous Apology - Columbia Journalism Review report on tobacco industry intimidatation of journalists. 8. Daybreak Articles on Tobacco - Recent and archived stories on tobacco from Daybreak, UCSF's electronic edition. 9. Death In The West - A movie exposing the most successful cigarette advertising campaign in history, produced in 1976, suppressed in 1979 by Philip Morris, can now be viewed online in its entirety. 10. Double Book Review: Smokescreen/The Cigarette Papers - Review of books by Philip Hilts and Stan Glantz. 11. Exposé 'Journalist' Conned Colleagues For 35 Years as Spy for Tobacco - Tobacco PR man Leonard Zahn, masquerading as a journalist, spied on "anti-tobacco" scientists, and on reporters and news media, for more than a third of a century. 12. External Influences on News - Lecture outline for college class on media features tobacco examples of self-censorship by news organizations. 13. FAIR: Smoke Screens: When Journalists Boost the Tobacco Industry, Follow the Money - Article on how media companies give credence to dubious information on tobacco from sources who are close to the industry. 14. Fallout from the Tobacco War - Column explores the impact of the Internet on public information on tobacco and the tobacco industry. 15. Frontline: Smoke in the Eye: Jeffrey Wigand - Transcript of Frontline report on Wigand, the censored 60 Minutes show, the tobacco industry, and media. 16. He Who Has the Gold Rules - Column on media ownership and its influence on how the news gets reported. Example used is RJR's ownership of the Weekly Reader and its coverage for children of tobacco stories. 17. How Philip Morris Influences Major Media - An internal Philip Morris memo explains how it influences journalists and gets favorable articles and commentaries, through strategies such as sponsoring journalism interns. 18. Interview of Dr. Stanton Glantz - Frontline interview; covers the Brown and Willaimson documents; the "settlement"; public health activities; the industry. "This is an industry whose whole thinking and behavior has been dominated by avoiding responsibility for its actions". 19. Lung Cancer Media Coverage - Lung cancer, the leading cancer killer of both men and women, is seriously under-reported when compared to other major cancers, according to a new study. 20. Me, the Media, and Addiction - Personal essay on media influences in writer's own smoking. 21. Media Firms Buy Their Way To Political Access - Center for Public Integrity report on media political power covers the connections between the tobacco industry and media, such as $1.1 billion in cigarette advertising, and what it buys. 22. Messengers: Philip Morris Uses Feel-good Ads to Improve Image - Media column comments on Philip Morris's recent ad campaign touting its charitable spending. 23. Philip Hilts interview - Hilts was a New York Times correspondent covering the tobacco beat and has published a book on it. This interview covers the Brown and Williamson papers, industry legal and PR strategy, industry conduct, media response, and industry intimidation of journalists and media. 24. Philip Morris Complains About Ad Placement - Presents and analyzes a letter that Philip Morris sent to newspapers to complain about where and how its ads ran. 25. Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine - Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting. 26. Press Clips: Tobacco Row - Explores a connection between $60,000 worth of tobacco ads in Brill's Content and a six-page article in the magazine that bashes the media for "overstating" the link between secondhand smoke and lung cancer. 27. Print Media Coverage of California's Smokefree Bar Law - Content analysis reveals the nature and extent of tobacco industry influence of print media coverage following implementation of California's smokefree bars. 28. Pro-tobacco Editorial Content of Young Men's Magazines rises by 70% between 1991 and 2000 - Review of the six leading young men's magazines over 10 years finds 5 pages on smoking and health, over 400 pages of tobacco promotion, and a rising tide of pro-tobacco editorial content. 29. Publishers and their Tobacco Habit - Columbia Journalism Review takes a look at the influence of magazine cigarette advertising on coverage of tobacco in those magazines. 30. RTNDF Political Coverage Project NEW! - Advice from the pros on how to get and cover political stories and resources on the net; tobacco frequently used as an example. 31. Selling Doubt - Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents some examples of tobacco industry influence on media. 32. Smoke Screen: Philip Hilts Reveals abuses by Tobacco Companies - Harvard Gazette article on reporting on the tobacco industry. 33. Smoke, Mirrors, and Censorship - Report on how and why ABC News pulling the plug on a hard-hitting documentary film about the tobacco industry. 34. Smoking News - Topix.net - News on smoking collected from diverse sources on the web. 35. The Art Of Manipulation - Art mural deconstructs tobacco ads and identifies how tobacco use affects the lives of the artists and contributors. 36. The Cigarette Papers - The Tobacco Industry and control of information about smoking and cancer; article from The Nation Magazine. 37. The Collaborators - Tobacco ads, advertising, and its effect on publications that carry it. 38. The Nation - Selected Feature - Science writer Philip Hilts, who has written about eighty stories on tobacco, twenty-five on the front page, was summarily removed from that beat three years ago after one particularly uncomplimentary story about Philip Morris. 39. The Partnership: Hard Sell in the Drug War - Article from The Nation discusses on the Partnership for a Drug-Free America discusses its tobacco connections such as Philip Morris funding and free ad space in media that take tobacco advertising. 40. The Search for the Smoking Gun - Book review of Dr. David Kessler's "A Question of Intent" in The Atlantic Monthly; considers the interesting fact that Philip Morris considered buying The Atlantic Monthly in order "to influence the public policy agenda and the information flow to the populace". 41. Tobacco Access and Media - Poster session from health conference examines smoking in movies, use of media to send anti-tobacco messages, and developing tobacco media campaigns using youth attitudes. 42. Tobacco Ads Retreat - Editorial comments on decision by major newspapers to stop taking tobacco ads, and highlights continuing cigarette advertising in women's magazines. 43. Tobacco Industry Analysis of Newsweek Article - Interanl tobacco industry memo reveals the history and results of tobacco industry pressure on Newsweek to water down a tobacco story. 44. Tobacco-Free Periodicals - Lists of magazines that do and do not take tobacco advertising, with annotated updates on ad frequency, content, and influence. 45. TV ACRES: Tobacco Products Section - Summarizes tobacco products hawked on TV, including having the stars smoke the sponsor's product on the show, as well as later history of cigars and cigarettes and TV stars; provides a list of product slogans used on commercials. 46. washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Report - Washington Post's online library of tobacco stories. Includes breaking news, politics and policy, litigation, health issues, teen smoking, industry news, and opinion. 47. Weblog Special: Big Tobacco - Collection of articles from the Guardian (UK) on the tobacco industry and smoking. 48. What You Need to Beat Goliath - Essay on journalism, the spiked CBS interview, Wigand, the movie "The Insider", and the real world of journalism under pressure.

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