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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.

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, unmarried people, single people and the unemployed. However, frequent Internet use slipped slighlty for some cohorts, including college graduates, people aged 30-49 and high-income earners.

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 their national and international news from the Internet, while only 35 per cent cited newspapers. Television continues to outclass both, with 70 per…

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 described as “terrible,” particularly for classified advertising. The only ad sector in which managers expect revenue to increase is online; however, as the study’s authors note, online ads…

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…

Titles and brief summaries of selected articles from Jounalism, Dec. 2008, Vol. 9, No. 6, including: Journalists and the information-attention markets: Towards an economic theory of journalism, by Susanne Fengler, TU Dortmund University and Stephan Ruß-Mohl, Università della Svizzera italiana Why they wouldn’t cite from sites: A study of journalists’ perceptions of social movement web sites…

News media is less effective as a medium for advertising than other forms of media, according to a study produced by U.S. marketing research firm Experian Simmons. The study, which tracked consumer interaction with 1,000 different television, web and print media properties, found consumers were less likely to buy products advertised through news media compared to…

The November 2008 issue of the Canadian Journal of Media Studies (Vol. 4, No. 1) includes several articles of interest to the journalism community, including: Baby Talk: How gender issues affected media coverage of the child-care debate in the last federal election by Dianne Rinehart, Carleton UniversityChild-care issues have traditionally been covered by female social affairs…

Participation in online discussion and comment sites is dominated by less than 10 per cent of web users, according to a study published by U.S. consulting company Rubicon. The study, based on a survy of more than 3,000 web users, found 80 per cent of User-Generated Content (UGC) was created by just nine per cent…

Paul Bradshaw – a British journalist, university lecturer and author of the Online Journalism Blog – has created a social networking site for journalism researchers. “It’s an attempt to provide a way for journalism students and academics to get in touch with others researching the same area, exchange ideas and tips, and ask for help…