Reuters vs. UN cancer agency: are corporate ties influencing science coverage?

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Malkan, Stacy (author)
    Format:
    Article
    Publication Date:
    2017
    URL:
    https://fair.org/home/reuters-vs-un-cancer-agency-are-corporate-ties-influencing-science-coverage/
    Published:
    International: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11204
    Subject Term:
    accuracy, chemicals, conflict, coverage, ethical issues, herbicides, information control, information issues, interest groups, journalists, reporting, risk communication, scientific communication, scientists, health, diseases, bias, cancer, risk journalism, Monsanto, United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), and agribusinesses
    Notes:
    Via online. 12 pages., Article involves a Reuters reporter who has "aimed a torrent of critical reporting at the WHO's [World Health Organization of the United Nations] International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), portraying the group and its scientists as out of touch and unethical, and leveling accursation about conflicts of interest and suppressed information in their decision-making."

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