The State of the News Media 2009

PEJ Finds Audience Migration and Recession Reduce Time Journalism Has to Sort Out Finances

Two developments converged in the last year to shorten the time that journalism has left to reinvent its business model and secure its financial future, according to a new comprehensive study on the State of the American News Media.

First, the audience migration to the web accelerated substantially in 2008, and even though most of that growth was at traditional news destinations, the financial impact of that was a negative one, according to the ... Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
4.1
by Kaizar Campwala - Mar. 16, 2009

The executive summary wasn't as helpful as reading the reports for each individual media sector. The trend I saw is that people are consuming more media than in the past, but not necessarily more news.

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