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9 Oct

How comments affect reader perceptions

There is always a flurry of talk about citizen participation in media and the value of  two-way conversations in journalism, but does the addition of public comments to the bottom […]

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2 Oct

Comment moderation easing up, but journalists remain gate-keepers

By Alfred Hermida CBC Newsworld has a daily election show called Your Turn, aimed at giving Canadians a “chance to talk about the election issues that matter to you.” The Globe […]

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25 Sep

IN JOURNAL: Newspaper Research Journal

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. […]

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18 Sep

Radio listening down

Notes from the newest Statistics Canada figures on radio listening: Last year Canadians listened to radio for 18.3 hours a week on average, continuing a trend that has seen a […]

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17 Sep

Canadian newspaper readership ‘strong’: NADbank

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, funded by newspapers and newspaper advertisers, reported […]

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12 Sep

Newspaper editors struggling with shift to Web: survey

A new survey of U.S. newspaper editors questions whether newsrooms are planning ahead. The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), showed that only […]

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10 Sep

Young voters not impressed by Web 2.0 election coverage, U.S. study suggests

As Canadian news organizations bid to outdo each other in displaying Web 2.0 savvy in their online election coverage, a U.S. study of young voters suggests they should beware of […]

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4 Sep

Growing number of viewers watch TV news online

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 […]

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3 Sep

Visualizing social media

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, […]

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25 Aug

Citizen journalists no threat to professionals, journalism prof argues

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 […]

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