Two graphs included in the 2009 State of the Media report published by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism show at a glance why some sectors of the news business are in desperate straits. One shows 2007-2008 advertising revenue trends; the other shows audience trends for the same period. Newspapers in particular are suffering a double whammy – print…
If newspapers are dying, here’s why: A lot of people don’t care. That message comes through loud and clear in a recent poll conducted by Pew Research. Asked if they’d miss their local paper if it had to shut down, only 33 per cent of respondents said they’d miss it a lot. Forty-two per cent said “not much” or “not at…
Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society is beta testing an open-source, automated online media research tool called Media Cloud. According to the Center, Media Cloud software can already code full-text content from an extensive range of traditional and new media outlets, including blogs, and issue comparative reports about news subjects, terminology correlations and geographic…
A large majority – 82.8 per cent – of Americans believe newspapers are still relevant but far fewer – 45.5 per cent – believe they’ll still exist in 10 years, according to a survey conducted by New York PR firm The Rosen Group. More than 29 per cent of survey respondents declared “websites devoted to news reporting” to…
Newsroom culture discourages journalists who cover traumatic events from seeking help for fear of being stigmatized as weak and unprofessional, writes counselling psychology professor Patrice Keats. Keats found those affected clearly want and need more help from employers and peers.
It’s well known newspapers are losing advertising dollars from print operations faster than revenue is growing at their online operations. It turns out the same thing is happening to readers, according to a study by the the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. If newspapers can’t change this trend, there is little chance they’ll ever build online revenues…
Internet searches using terms like “unemployment benefits”, “bankruptcy” and “foreclosure” have leaped dramatically in frequency during the past year, according to an analysis by comScore Inc. Call it a digital sign of the times.
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…