The State of the News Media 2009

Journalism.org by Tom Rosenstiel | Mar. 16, 2009 (Special Report)
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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Patricia L'Herrou
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 by Patricia L'Herrou - Mar. 16, 2009

hearing this project director today on npr, the points i noticed most were: 1) that print brings in the revenue (from ads) but readership is more and more moving to the web where revenue is not great, and 2) that so far, in cities with two major papers, only one has folded. this is a summary of the study.and points out that the 'death of newspapers is not [yet, anyway] imminent.

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