In a study that is sure to surprise nobody, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reports that Fox news presidential campaign reporting tends to favour Republican candidate John McCain while MSNBC reports favour Democrat Barack Obama. CNN, on the other hand, strikes some sort of balance by being equally negative about all…
News coverage of the U.S. presidential election is noticeably more negative in tone toward Republican candidate John McCain compared to coverage of Democratic candidate Barack Obama, according to a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. A team of researchers coded stories for “tone” during the six weeks between the end…
Journalists who blog become more responsive to story ideas provided by readers and less reliant on assignments from editors, according to Paul Bradshaw of the Online Journalism Blog. Bradshaw, who is also senior lecturer in online journalism and magazines at Birmingham City University’s School of Media, analyzed 200 responses from journalists who voluntarily completed a…
Mainstream media outlets are happy to publish some types of citizen-generated content, but, as BBC veteran and current University of British Columbia professor Alfred Hermida writes, the doors are still closed to citizens wanting to play a meaningful role in setting the news agenda.
Titles and brief summaries of selected articles from the Newspaper Research Journal, Volume 29, No. 3, Summer 2008 “How Newspaper Readership Affects Political Participation” by Tien-Sung Lee and Lu Wei. NRJ summary: This analysis reveals that a decrease in newspaper readership among 17- to 24-year olds is associated with their decreasing political participation but not…
NADbank is reporting Canadian newspaper readership remains “strong”, based on major market readership data it collected in fall 2007 and spring 2008. The newspaper research organization…
The number of people who watch TV shows online has doubled in two years, according to a U.S. report by TNS and the Conference Board. For this growing group of on-demand TV viewers, news – yes, news – was the most popular choice of program to watch online.
Social media, the newest powerhouse phenomenon to spring from the Internet, is the ultimate people’s platform, built on the Internet’s unique characteristic as a many-to-many medium. Some social media sites, like Facebook and Flickr, have established themselves as mainstream players in citizen media; others are little known outside of their own group of users and some…
In an essay published by the Knight Citizen News Network, Clyde H. Bentley of the University of Missouri’s journalism school sympathetically reviews the historical rise of “citizen journalism” but concludes it should not be viewed as a threat by professional journalists. He says citizen news gatherers and commentators are to journalism what militia members are…
More news consumers are “checking in on the news” throughout the day. Social networking sites are not yet a major news source for the young. More than one third of smartphone users get their news from the device. These are just a few of the latest findings from the Pew Research Centre for the People &…