The New Orleans Times-Picayune is the top paper in the United States in terms of market reach, according to a new U.S. study by The Media Audit, a communications consulting firm. The newspaper reaches 77 per cent of all adults in New Orleans, according to the audit. When its online site, nola.com, is included, the…
Teens still like television, radio and newspapers and aren’t abandoning traditional media for the Internet, according to a new study.The Nielsen Company recently released a study of media use by American teens. It found that teens watch less online video than adults, and spend less time on the internet than adults do.
Cecil Rosner examines how two renowned investigative journalists handle sourcing and concludes that whatever the approach, relying on a single source is always a risky venture.
Chris Waddell, who has been the associate director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication for the last three years, is set to take over as interim director in July. He replaces Karim H. Karim, who has been the director for the past three years. Karim is stepping down…
From his hospital bed, Mark Glaser, of PBS MediaShift, had time to think about 10 fundamental ways newspapers can change to save themselves.
“Proliferating blogs and micro-sites are producing so much local news, hard and soft, that the continuing shrinkage and even death of metro papers will leave no troubling void in metro coverage, Mark Potts concludes in an extensively linked post on his Recovering Journalist blog. Potts comes close to putting metros collectively in the past tense.…
“If newspapers are to rise from the obituary page, the people in charge better learn how to sell them as an important advertising vehicle and an irreplaceable voice in their communities. That means they need to embrace new media to avoid getting eaten by it. Reporters must get out from behind their desks and do…
Karthika Muthukumaraswamy gives a thorough analysis of Twitter’s role in journalism in this article, citing scholars and journalists. Notably, she emphasizes the importance of verification as being a major difference between tweets provided by anybody and those provided by journalists.
More local content is the key to saving newspapers in the SunMedia chain, according to a study done by Communications Workers of America released on June 25. “Publishers and newspaper companies complain that the financial model for the media industry is broken and papers are endangered because of competition from the Internet. This poll shows…