Anyone looking for ideas about how to help newsrooms cope with and adapt to change might find it useful to consult All Eyes Forward, a 164-page report outlining initial results of the American Press Institute’s “Learning Newsroom” program. It describes the first 18 months of a three-year pilot project involving 10 newspaper newsrooms, including the…
As news media becomes increasingly global in reach, should a worldwide standard of media ethics also evolve? This is the focus of Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective, a collection of research papers written by an international group of media scholars. In an article written for J-Source, co-editor Stephen Ward briefly outlines the authors’…
The latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication (Vol. 33, No. 2) includes several research articles of interest to the journalism community, including: “Parachute Journalism” in Haiti: Media Sourcing in the 2003-2004 Political Crisis by Isabel Macdonald, York UniversityAbstract: The Canadian media’s reliance on parachute and wire agency journalists during the lead-up to the…
It’s the war the United States started after 9/11 and then forgot – Afghanistan. In fact, coverage of the war in Afghanistan has accounted for less than 1 per cent of American news media content during the past few years, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Index. But U.S. news media noticed…
At least 82 journalists were forced to flee their home countries during the past 12 months, a rate of exile that doubles the average recorded since 2001, according to a survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Iraq and Somalia were the most-fled countries and escaping threats of violence was the leading cause of exile.…
As Canadian politicians vie for public attention during this summer’s federal pre-election campaign, here’s some interesting U.S. data for journalists, politicians and media managers to chew on: American voters have embraced the Internet as a source of election campaign information, pushing it past all other forms of media except television. Also, Internet ad spending by…
Researchers and others should check out Policy Archive, a new searchable, indexed website that hosts public policy research papers from more than 220 think tanks and research institutes. The site – created by the Center for Governmental Studies and the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis University Library – has already collected 12,000 policy and research…
Vanity Fair has published a delightfully visual yet highly functional introduction to the busy American newsy blog scene. Media-politics-celebrity blogs are situated in quadrants according to how they rank along continua of news-opinion content and earnest-scurrilous tone. You can hover your mouse pointer over each blog for a mini-review and click to visit the ones…
All news is local – that’s a truism of journalism. Does the Internet change that? Do newspapers expand their notion of community when their potential readership goes global? Are news nets cast further to attract a wider readership? Those are among the questions researchers involved in the Geography of News Project are working to answer.…
Only half of Canadians believe news organizations get their facts straight and just a third think news is fair and balanced, according to polling data released by the Canadian Media Research Consortium (pdf). The results of the national survey suggest Canadians are less interested in the news and more dubious about news media credibility than…