Findings
Apr 08, 2007
Yes, daily circulation is in serious decline. But in the nation's capital and elsewhere, newspapers are taking big risks to lure back readers and reinvent themselves. Jacqueline Nunes reports for the Ryerson Review of Journalism (Summer 2006).
Apr 08, 2007
Knowledge@Wharton, an online business journal published by the University of Pennsylvania, reports that the strength of washingtonpost.com lies in its original reporting, multimedia storytelling, and embrace of a truly interactive approach to content. "Viewers can read all the articles from the print edition, of course, but that's just a start. You can chat online with reporters, watch award-winning documentaries or see the cherry blossoms bloom with time-elapsed photography. Wondering whether Jesus is the Son of God? Go to 'On Faith,' a popular multi-contributor blog where high-profile panelists ponder theological questions. Foreign policy junkies can find a similar venue at 'PostGlobal,' and true procrastinators will like the vapidly addictive 'On Being,' where complete strangers talk with warmth and enthusiasm about random topics like why they are annoyed by crowded elevators."
Mar 26, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
Media in Canadatakes a look at how various national media have interpreted and reacted to the Newspaper Audience Databank (NADbank)'s annual study on readership levels.
Mar 25, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
David Carr, The New York Times’s media writer, reports on the new website Assignment Zero, a collaboration between Wired magazine and NewAssignment.net. Assignment Zero “intends to use not only the wisdom of the crowd, but their combined reporting efforts — an approach that has come to be called ‘crowdsourcing.’” There are high hopes for the experimental site that will “use custom software to create a virtual newsroom that allows collaboration on a discrete, but open-ended, topic from the very start. “
Mar 15, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
George Albert Gladney, journalism professor at University of Wyoming, Ivor Shapiro, associate journalism professor at Ryerson University, and Joseph Castaldo, research assistant at Ryerson, present the results of a survey of online news people rating the quality of online news. In 2005 the trio invited 723 editors of online news sites, in the United States and Canada, to complete an online survey rating the importance of 38 criteria, divided into the following categories: content, interactivity, look and feel, navigation, functionality and community relevance. The answers of the 143 respondents reveal that many traditional journalism values cross over to the online news community, with credibility and utility ranking at the top.
[Gladney, George Albert; Shapiro, Ivor; Castaldo, Joseph: 2006, “Online News People’s Ratings of 38 Criteria of Quality of News Web Sites.” Newspaper Research Journal 28/1 (Winter 2007).]
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[Gladney, George Albert; Shapiro, Ivor; Castaldo, Joseph: 2006, “Online News People’s Ratings of 38 Criteria of Quality of News Web Sites.” Newspaper Research Journal 28/1 (Winter 2007).]
Click here to read the full article.
Mar 14, 2007
- Posted by Ivor
Shapiro
"In the last year, the trends reshaping journalism didn’t just quicken, they seemed to be nearing a pivot point," according to the 2007 edition of the annually anticipated report on US news media by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ).
Mar 13, 2007
What does “excellence” mean in journalism? The authors (Ivor Shapiro, Patrizia Albanese and Leigh Doyle, of Ryerson University) interviewed judges in two leading Canadian print journalism awards programs to probe not just for the standards they felt should be applied, but the standards they actually did apply. Judges mentioned a wide variety of criteria, including the social importance and impact of works of journalism. But only two values were affirmed consistently: writing style and reporting rigour.
Feb 28, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
Regan Ray at RRJ.ca examines how the international media have covered the Pickton trial thus far, and how these decisions have been influenced by audience reaction.
Feb 19, 2007
- Posted by Bill
Reynolds
New York Times reporter Noam Cohen uncovers that American judges are using Wikipedia in their judicial rulings. The accuracy of Wikipedia, an online dictionary that can be edited and written by anyone, is a hotly debated issue. Cohen traces how the judicial community is now grappling with when, and if, it is appropriate to quote the popular web site in a ruling.
Jan 10, 2007
- Posted by Heather
McCall
In June 2005 former journalist Dan Turner spent two weeks interviewing 12 journalists, two senior public servants and one professor of journalism about the state of the media in Canada. The Public Policy Forum commissioned him to write a report critiquing the industry and seeking ideas for improvement. Participants included Michael Enright, Neil Macdonald, Edward Greenspon and Susan Delacourt. Turner wrote the individual interviews into a roundtable discussion which can be read at the PPF's website.
Findings
edited by DAVID SECKO
assistant editor ELYSE AMEND
Each month, we review scholarly studies of journalism as a practice and as an institution. David Secko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Concordia University (Montréal). He teaches science reporting and does research on theoretical practices in science journalism. He currently leads the Concordia Science Journalism Project (CSJP).
Elyse Amend is a freelance writer and research assistant for the CSJP. She recently completed her MA in Journalism Studies at Concordia University.
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