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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 citizens wanting to play a meaningful role in…

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: This analysis reveals that a decrease in…

NADbank is reporting Canadian newspaper readership remains “strong”, based on major market readership data it collected in fall 2007 and spring 2008.  The newspaper research organization……

The number of people who watch TV shows online has doubled in two years, according to a U.S. report by TNS and the Conference Board. For this growing group of on-demand TV viewers, news  – yes, news – was the…

Social media, the newest powerhouse phenomenon to spring from the Internet, is the ultimate people’s platform, built on the Internet’s unique characteristic as a many-to-many medium. Some social media sites, like Facebook and Flickr, have established themselves as mainstream players…

In an essay published by the Knight Citizen News Network, Clyde H. Bentley of the University of Missouri’s journalism school sympathetically reviews the historical rise of “citizen journalism” but concludes it should not be viewed as a threat by professional…

More news consumers are “checking in on the news” throughout the day. Social networking sites are not yet a major news source for the young. More than one third of smartphone users get their news from the device. These are…

About one in five Americans don’t read, watch or listen to news on a typical day, according to the latest biennial news consumption survey released by the Pew Research Center. For some sectors of the news industry, that could be…

Northwestern University’s Readership Institute has released results of its 2008 Newspaper Readership tracking study. It shows a small decline in readership overall, with young people accounting for the largest decline. The study also indicates American newspapers are failing to…

Community newspapers are not experiencing the same calamitous upheaval that North American dailies are struggling with. In fact, local papers such as those owned by Metroland and Black Press are in the midst of a transformation and Suburban Newspapers of…