Some young people who wouldn’t be caught dead reading a newspaper today expect they will in the future. That’s what doctoral student Seth C. Lewis found when he surveyed students at two U.S. universities. While only 14 per cent of the more than 1,200 students surveyed would openly admit to reading a non-student print product today, 41…
What on earth are the British thinking these days, aiming their guns at their messengers? The Brits harassed five top financial journalists who appeared at a government hearing in London to defend themselves against accusations their reporting caused panic and helped escalate the financial crisis in the U.K. Reported a story on CBC.ca: “An independent…
Canadian-Egyptian journalist Heba Aly was expelled by Sudan, where she had been reporting for the Christian Science Monitor, Bloomberg and Irin, reported AFP. A Canadian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman spoke out against the expulsion, saying Canada is “concerned” and has “have contacted the Sudanese authorities, including the foreign minister, to get an explanation and express our…
Can’t get enough about how to fund newspapers in the 21st century? The latest to weigh in is Jack Shafer on Slate.com. His verdict: It’s a bad idea to divorce the newspaper from market pressures.
We know online video is popular, but the latest US numbers were startling nevertheless: US Internet users viewed 14.3 billion (yup, with a “b”) in December alone–averaging 96 (!) videos per Internet user for that month.
Less than two years after pulling down the pay wall, NY Times executive editor Bill Keller has hinted that a consumer-pays model may reappear on the paper’s website, says a report on The Huffington Post.
The 2008 death toll in journalism, reported the International Federation of Journalists, was 109 reporters and other news media workers killed on assignment. That figure looks better than 175 deaths last year but the federation warned that a wave of killings in January this year could mean 2008 was a short respite. Iraq remained the…
Utne has the goods on the guy tracking the death of North American media on Twitter. “The media is dying” is a virtual death knell of journalism, so relentless in its bad news and profoundly depressing I sometimes ignore Twitter for hours because I just can’t look any more…
New anti-terrorism laws set to be introduced in the UK next month are expected to increase the powers of police office to stop photographers from taking photos in public places.
Tough times for newspapers are not just bad for journalists, they are bad for society. Former Toronto Star publisher John Honderich suggests five models for rescuing public interest journalism in an era of revolutionary change.