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1 Mar

News is all around us: Pew

I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes. News is all around me … With apologies to the Troggs (and a liberal use of poetic licence), that, in […]

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1 Mar

News is all around: Pew

I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes. News is all around me … With apologies to the Troggs (and some poetic licence), that, in essence, […]

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18 Feb

Social media now a key info source for journalists

Social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook are commonly used by journalists as sources of information, according to a survey by Cision and George Washington University. More than half […]

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4 Feb

Facebook sends more people to news sites than Google News

News organization that haven’t yet incorporated Facebook into their news distribution strategy might want to change course, and soon. According to research from Hitwise, Facebook is now the fourth-ranked source of visits to news and media […]

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21 Jan

Study examines how ads impact credibility of news

An editorial study conducted by the Seattle Times looked at how contextual advertising (affinity to content determines ad placement) impacted readers’ perceptions of online news content. It found most readers were comfortable with […]

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21 Jan

Future of media studypalooza

As part of a newly launched study into the future of media, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has posted a lengthy, hyperlinked collection of recent studies and articles on media’s future from a wide […]

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19 Jan

Almost half of Google News readers don’t visit originating news sites

Complaints by media proprietors like Rupert Murdoch that Google News is “stealing” their content has always been countered by the argument that Google and other news aggregators actually direct web traffic back to […]

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11 Jan

Bad news for online user-pay advocates

An ITZ/Belden Interactive study of reader sign-up rates at 26 U.S. dailies that put their online versions behind a paywall found the average number of online subscribers amounted to just […]

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11 Jan

New media mostly reproduces old media’s news: Pew

Although the Internet has spawned a vast increase in news sources, almost all news is still gathered by traditional media, suggests a study by the Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in […]

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5 Jan

Canadians value Internet more than TV

Say farewell to the TV generation. The Internet is our new addiction. In a recent survey by market researcher Synovate, 88 per cent of Canadian respondents said they could not live […]

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