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In Journal: Examining journalism in Brazil

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…
Newspaper websites attracting more readers: Nielsen

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,…
What’s Happening to the News (in Britain)?

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…
In Journal: Nieman Reports on the future of news

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…
In Journal: Hostility to media, challenging authority, self-censorship and youth

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…
Women in journalism by numbers

If you’re looking for a source of statistical data about women in journalism, check out the research compendium page of the McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs website.
More people spend a lot of time on the Internet

Almost half of U.S. adults now spend more than an hour a day using the Internet, according to a Gallup survey. Frequent Internet use surged during the past year among some demographic groups, particularly men, post-graduates, people aged 18-29, seniors,…
Internet overtakes newspapers as news source; TV next?

The Internet surpassed newspapers as a source of national and international news for the first time in 2008, according to a new Pew Research Centre survey. Forty per cent of respondents said they got most of…
Newspapers: Bad now, but worse to come

The outlook for newspapers in 2009 is exceptionally bleak, according to a Kubas Consulting survey of more than 400 Canadian and U.S. newspaper executives and managers. The revenue outlook for next year is…
Visualizing the world of social media

If you want an update on the rapidly expanding world of social media and you prefer maps and graphs to textual description and analysis, we’ve found the right set of data for you: Check out…