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28 May

Print not dead yet

Rumours that the next generation won’t read print have been greatly exaggerated, says new research from US-based McPheters & Co. The overall consensus of their report is that the younger […]

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14 May

Gannett’s “Information Center” newsroom model

In this Editors Weblog entry– part of a series previewing the World Newspaper Congress in Cape Town from June 3-6, 2007 –John Burke looks at Gannett’s strategy for handling 24-h, […]

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4 May

RSS not reliable source of news, study finds

RSS feeds aren’t the best way to getthe latest contentfrom most news outlets, a recent study has found. The study, released by The International Center for Media and the Public […]

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19 Apr

Newspaper research reveals Can/U.S. trends

The Center for Media Research provides a research brief and links to the press release from NewspaperAssociation of America regarding the NAA’s NAdbasestudy on newspaper audience behaviour.The study, subtitled “Newspaper. […]

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9 Apr

Newspaper profitability linked to newsroom spending

Investing in news quality has a stronger positive influence on newspaper profitability thanspending on distribution, circulationor advertising, according toresearchout ofthe University of Missouri-Columbia. Researchers from the journalism and marketing departments […]

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9 Apr

Hannibal Lecter on the front page

courtesy Liam Richards The mainstream media tends to associate the term “psychopath” with explosive, uncontrolled, and highly graphic forms of violence, says a study by a pyschology graduate student at […]

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26 Mar

Media outlets react to newspaper data

Media in Canadatakes a look at how various national media have interpreted and reacted to the Newspaper Audience Databank (NADbank)’s annual study on readership levels.

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25 Mar

Assignment Zero jumps on citizen journalism bandwagon

David Carr, The New York Times’s media writer, reports on the new website Assignment Zero, a collaboration between Wired magazine and NewAssignment.net. Assignment Zero “intends to use not only the […]

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15 Mar

Online Editors Rate Web News Quality Criteria

George Albert Gladney, journalism professor at University of Wyoming, Ivor Shapiro, associate journalism professor at Ryerson University, and Joseph Castaldo, research assistant at Ryerson, present the results of a survey […]

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14 Mar

U.S. media nearing “pivot point” — PEJ report

“In the last year, the trends reshaping journalism didn’t just quicken, they seemed to be nearing a pivot point,” according to the 2007 edition of the annually anticipated report on […]

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