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,…
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…