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8 Apr

In Journal: Foxifying British TV news, community journalism and newsroom change

Selected articles from the April 2009 issue of Journalism of possible interest to the journalism community: Towards a `Foxification’ of 24-hour news channels in Britain?: An analysis of market-driven and publicly […]

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30 Mar

Online journalists fear Internet eroding professional values

Journalists who work online are worried the Internet is undermining journalism’s professional values, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism. A slight majority of respondents believed journalism is on the “wrong track,” […]

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26 Mar

Magazine readership slips slightly

Readership of Canadian magazines is down less than three per cent since last year, according to figures released by the Print Measurement Bureau. Reader’s Digest has the largest readership and CAA Magazine has the […]

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25 Mar

Canadian newspaper readership ‘stable’

Readership of Canadian newspapers remains strong despite the financial problems plaguing the industry, according to figures released today by NADbank. Almost half of Canadian adults read a newspaper on an average weekday […]

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24 Mar

News economic trends in two graphs

Two graphs included in the 2009 State of the Media report published by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism show at a glance why some sectors of the news business are […]

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16 Mar

State of the Media report bleakest ever

As one might expect, this year’s annual State of the Media report produced by The Center for Excellence in Journalism makes for dismal reading. The most frightening problem highlighted by […]

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12 Mar

Newspapers won’t be missed: Pew poll

If newspapers are dying, here’s why: A lot of people don’t care. That message comes through loud and clear in a recent poll conducted by Pew Research. Asked if they’d miss their local paper if […]

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11 Mar

Media Cloud: Automated media research tool open for testing

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 […]

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5 Mar

Public believes newspapers still relevant but doubt they’ll survive

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 […]

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1 Mar

Strategies for overcoming “Assignment Stress Injury”

By Patrice Keats“I have made a talent out of being able to bear any burden . . . I have managed it perfectly up to now and the lid just […]

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