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…
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…