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As part of a newly launched study into the future of media, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has posted a lengthy, hyperlinked collection of recent studies and articles on media’s future from a wide range of…

Complaints by media proprietors like Rupert Murdoch that Google News is “stealing” their content has always been countered by the argument that Google and other news aggregators actually direct web traffic back to orignating news…

An ITZ/Belden Interactive study of reader sign-up rates at 26 U.S. dailies that put their online versions behind a paywall found the average number of online subscribers amounted to just 2.4 per…

Although the Internet has spawned a vast increase in news sources, almost all news is still gathered by traditional media, suggests a study by the Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. The…

Say farewell to the TV generation. The Internet is our new addiction. In a recent survey by market researcher Synovate, 88 per cent of Canadian respondents said they could not live without Internet…

A study of Twitter usage by the top 100 U.S. newspapers found that while all hosted feeds, almost 40 per cent didn’t link to those feeds from their websites. The Bivings Group study also reported many…

Recent articles of interest published in scholarly journals: “Evaluating Journalism: Towards an assessment framework for the practice of journalism,” by Ivor Shapiro, Journalism Practice 4 (2), April 2010 “The Globe on Saturday,…

With ad revenues slumping and web readership growing, news industry leaders are again mulling over making people pay to read online news. Two consulting companies recently released results of their own studies into consumer preparedness to…

News organizations that wait for online revenue to increase before reallocating major resources from traditional products to online products are making a huge and possibly terminal mistake, according to a research paper presented to a conference on the future of journalism…

In a special issue, Journalism examines how transformations in the media business are impacting working conditions and labour practices in the journalism workplace. Articles include: “Compressed dimensions in digital media occupations: Journalists…