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Titles and brief summaries of selected articles from Jounalism, Dec. 2008, Vol. 9, No. 6, including: Journalists and the information-attention markets: Towards an economic theory of journalism, by Susanne Fengler, TU Dortmund University…

News media is less effective as a medium for advertising than other forms of media, according to a study produced by U.S. marketing research firm Experian Simmons. The study, which tracked consumer interaction…

The November 2008 issue of the Canadian Journal of Media Studies (Vol. 4, No. 1) includes several articles of interest to the journalism community, including: Baby Talk: How gender issues affected media coverage…

Participation in online discussion and comment sites is dominated by less than 10 per cent of web users, according to a study published by U.S. consulting company Rubicon. The study, based on…

Paul Bradshaw – a British journalist, university lecturer and author of the Online Journalism Blog – has created a social networking site for journalism researchers. “It’s an attempt to provide a way…

In a study that is sure to surprise nobody, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reports that Fox news presidential campaign reporting tends to favour Republican candidate John McCain…

News coverage of the U.S. presidential election is noticeably more negative in tone toward Republican candidate John McCain compared to coverage of Democratic candidate Barack Obama, according to a study by the…

Journalists who blog become more responsive to story ideas provided by readers and less reliant on assignments from editors, according to Paul Bradshaw of the Online Journalism Blog. Bradshaw, who is also…

Mainstream media outlets are happy to publish some types of citizen-generated content, but, as BBC veteran and current University of British Columbia professor Alfred Hermida writes, the doors are still closed to…

Titles and brief summaries of selected articles from the Newspaper Research Journal, Volume 29, No. 3, Summer 2008 “How Newspaper Readership Affects Political Participation” by Tien-Sung Lee and Lu Wei. NRJ summary:…