The State of the News Media 2008: Newspaper Content Analysis

Journalism.org | Mar. 17, 2008 (Special Report)

In 2007, despite...a rush of resources away from print...newspapers stood out in 2007 for unique coverage. Their particular strength...may be less covering breaking news than tracking stories that percolated, ebbed and flowed over the course of the year. The nation's newspapers gave front-page coverage to issues and events often not found in other news genres. The state of the U.S. economy, the continuing debate over health care policies and foreign news ... Full Story »

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by Myra Jones - Oct. 1, 2008

This piece has a lot of impressive charts and graphs to show print coverage of various issues. But they did little analysis on the quality of the stories-- they mainly counted them. And the quality of the coverage is where the rubber meets the road. Election coverage, for example, has been extensive but practically worthless, focusing on the gossip and the race itself. So the reader knows little more after reading the piece than s/he did before reading it. The article also didn't show how many stories were copycat journalism. At least the print media aren't as bad as tv about inflicting us with celebrity gossip disguised as news.