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20 Aug

News “grazers” becoming the norm

A majority of today’s news consumers (51%) are news “grazers” who “check in on news” whenever they want or stumble on news while online, rather than waiting for news to […]

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18 Aug

News? I don’t need no stinkin’ news!

About one in five Americans don’t read, watch or listen to news on a typical day, according to the latest biennial news consumption survey released by the Pew Research Center. […]

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12 Aug

Two of three people never visit local newspaper website, U.S. study finds

Northwestern University’s Readership Institute has released results of its 2008 Newspaper Readership tracking study. It shows a small decline in readership overall, with young people accounting for the largest decline. […]

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11 Aug

A model for the 21st century newsroom

Twitter, moblogs, wikis, feeds, social bookmarks, tagging, IM, RSS, crowdsourcing, citjour – there’s no shortage of new tools and new ways to do journalism on the web. Everyone knows journalism […]

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7 Aug

Community newspapers: We’re doing just fine, thanks

Community newspapers in North America are not experiencing the calamitous upheaval that’s dogging daily newspapers, according to the Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA) trade association, which represents community newspaper owners, […]

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6 Aug

API project aims to help newsrooms change

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 […]

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21 Jul

Shrinking newspapers, shrinking world

Reports the New York Times: ”Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, nearly as many print less national news, and despite […]

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4 Jul

Book examines media ethics from global perspective

By Stephen J. A. Ward  One leading edge of media ethics research is the search for an ethics appropriate to today’s global journalism. A growing number of ethicists and scholars […]

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26 Jun

In the CJC: Parachute journalism in Haiti, climate change reporting and more …

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 […]

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25 Jun

U.S. media momentarily notices ‘other’ war

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 […]

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