England’s National Readership Survey reports more people are reading “quality” newspapers like The Times and The Guardian even though their circulation is declining. Readership of mid-market and tabloid newspapers, however, is dropping.
Selected articles from the most recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Communcation of interest to the journalism community: Listening to Labour: Mainstream Media, Talk Radio, and the 2005 B.C. Teachers Strike, by Shane Gunster, Simon Fraser University (Article available to non-subscribers) Conditional Hospitality: Framing Dialogue on Poverty in Montréal Newspapers, by Greg M. Nielsen,…
The most recent issue of Journalism Studies focuses on Europe. Articles include: The Mohammed cartoons crisis in the British and Greek press, by Anna Triandafyllidou Travel journalism, by Ben Cocking Reflections on changing patterns of journalism in the new EU countries, by Epp Lauk Divisions and struggles of the Slovenian journalistic guild, by Primoz Krasovec…
The Project for Excellence in Journalism is now tracking news discussions in the blogosphere every week as well as news coverage by traditional U.S. news media. The first “new media index” published last week revealed bloggers were just as mesmerized by the Obama inauguration as was the MSM. But the indices published this week are more interesting – while economic…
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…
The February 2009 issue of Journalism focuses exclusively on journalism in Brazil. Articles include: Journalistic thinking: Brazil’s modern tradition, by José Marques de Melo Journalists and intellectuals in the origins of the Brazilian press (1808-22), by Heci Regina Candiani The past and the future of Brazilian television news, by Beatriz Becker and Celeste González de…
The number of unique monthly visitors to the top 10 U.S. newspaper websites has increased an average of 16 per cent since 2007, Nielsen Online reports, while total visits are up by 27 per cent, suggesting readers are also visiting more often. It’s more evidence that news consumption is shifting online and the challenge facing newspapers is how to shift more…
News in Britian is increasingly being produced by “digitally mechanized factories” devoted more to continuously processing content than to generating original news, according to “What’s Happening to Our News”, a study published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. The result is a news agenda driven by pre-packaged PR products and “the ephemeral trails of the global…
Nieman Reports, a journal that publishes articles about journalism and news media written by journalists, devotes the lion’s share of its current issue to journalism’s future. Articles are organized under the headings “Spiking the Newspaper to Follow the Digital Road”, “Grabbing Readers Attention – Youthful Perspectives”, “Blogs, Wikis, Social Media – And Journalism” and “Rethinking the What, When, Why,…
Titles and brief abstracts (for abstracts, click on ‘more’) of some recent journal articles of possible interest to the journalism community: Elaboration of the Hostile Media Phenomenon: The Roles of Involvement, Media Skepticism, Congruency of Perceived Media Influence, and Perceived Opinion Climate, by Jounghwa Choi. Hallym University; Myengja Yang, KT Corporation and Jeongheon JC Chang,…