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 hosted by the Yale Law School. News consumers are shifting their attention to online products much faster than ad spending, but the money will catch up,…
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 in transformation,” by Amy Schmitz Weiss and Vanessa de Macedo Higgins Joyce “Token responses to gendered newsrooms: Factors in the career-related decisions of…
Although recent Pew surveys in the United States have documented a serious decline in the public’s perception of news media’s performance in areas like accuracy and neutrality, the role played by the press in monitoring and criticizing government and politicians continues to be regarded as a valuable and important public service.
Despite the surging popularity of social media sites, content-oriented sites are by far the biggest attraction online, according to figures compiled by the Online Publishers Association. In fact, the number of people attracted to content sites and the amount of time they spend there are growing. So far, it appears the dramatic growth in popularity of social media is happening…
The National Sports Journalism Center at Indiana University has just launched sportsjournalism.org, a website devoted to the subject of sports journalism and sports media.
The latest Pew survey into the credibility of U.S. news media paints a bleak picture, with the news media’s reputation reaching or matching all-time lows for accuracy, neutrality, independence and willingness to admit mistakes. Also notable is the pervasive partisan divide between how Republicans and Democrats view specific news organizations.
U.S. media companies suffered a devastating decline in advertising revenue during the first six months of this year, according to a Nielsen report. Biggest losers included the newspaper and magazine sectors. Gainers included infomercials and smartphone ads.
Some other findings from a study by social media marketing firm Sysomos: More than 85 per cent of users rarely post (less than once a day) About five per cent of users account for 75 per cent of content Only six per cent of users have more than 100 followers.
About 40 per cent of sports reporters gamble on sports, even though many admit it undermines their ability to report objectively, according to a survey of sports reporters conducted by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State University. The survey results were published in the most recent issue of the International Journal of Sports Communication.
Articles published in the most recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Media Studies that may be of interest to the journalism community: “Informed Mutual Support: Options on Violence and Trauma from the Perspective of the Journalist”, by Robert M. Frank and Ross Perigoe “Covering Democracy: The coverage of FPTP vs. MMP in the Ontario…