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26 Feb

Newspapers losing print readers faster than they gain readers online

It’s well known newspapers are losing advertising dollars from print operations faster than revenue is growing at their online operations. It turns out the same thing is happening to readers, according to a study […]

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25 Feb

Search term trends reflect economic worries

Internet searches using terms like “unemployment benefits”, “bankruptcy” and “foreclosure” have leaped dramatically in frequency during the past year, according to an analysis by comScore Inc. Call it a digital sign of […]

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21 Feb

Readership of some UK newspapers up despite declining sales

England’s National Readership Survey reports more people are reading “quality” newspapers like The Times and The Guardian even though their circulation is declining. Readership of mid-market and tabloid newspapers, however, is dropping.

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19 Feb

In the CJC: Labour, poverty, immigrants and election bias in news media

Selected articles from the most recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Communication of interest to the journalism community: Listening to Labour: Mainstream Media, Talk Radio, and the 2005 B.C. […]

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16 Feb

In Journal: European journalism and news media

The latest issue of Journalism Studies (Volume 10, Number 1, February 2009) focuses on Europe. Some selected titles, with article abstracts: The Mohammed cartoons crisis in the British and Greek press, by Anna […]

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13 Feb

Twitter examined in new Pew Study

The Pew Research Center has had a more detailed look at the rise of Twitter as a communications tool in the United States. Its conclusions are interesting: Twitter is fast-growing […]

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11 Feb

Dramatic change in Washington corps

“The corps of journalists covering Washington D.C. at the dawn of the Obama Administration is not so much smaller as it is dramatically transformed,” said a report by the Project […]

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6 Feb

PEJ starts tracking blogosphere (and zombies)

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 […]

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5 Feb

Just when you thought dead-tree newspapers were just plain dead …

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 […]

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29 Jan

In Journal: Examining journalism in Brazil

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  Abstract – Journalism is a universal […]

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