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Press Widely Criticized, But Trusted More than Other Institutions

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - Sep. 24 (Special Report) - Negative opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research Center has been tracking since 1985. However, these bleak findings are put into some perspective by the fact that news organizations are more trusted sources of information than are many other institutions, including government and business.

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How USA Today Slips $82 Million a Year Onto Your Hotel Bill

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Jeff Bercovici - Aug. 02 (News) - Gannett Co., the publisher of USA Today, has been profiting to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year from these small charges.

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The-Smart-and-Sexy-Story-of-Newspapers

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Editor & Publisher - By Gretchen A. Peck - Jul. 22 (News Analysis) - Aristotle pondered the modes of persuasion and determined there were three ways to present an argument. The first, “Ethos,” appeals to the audience with authority and credibility. “Pathos” is an argument that appeals to the audience’s emotions, while “Logos” is the attempt to persuade with logic. With its new marketing campaign designed to promote the newspaper industry at large, the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) managed to leverage all three rhetorical strategies. “The NAA board developed a set of strategies last year,” Mark Contreras, former NAA board chairman, said. “We sent out a survey to all the members of the NAA and asked, ‘What are the two or three issues that newspapers should work on, collectively?’” The responses were painstakingly boiled down to four key industry initiatives, according to Contreras: To better protect intellectual property and better monetize content; to agree upon mobile advertising standards; to provide an industry-wide digital shopping experience, particularly for national advertisers; and to better communicate and promote the full value of the audiences newspapers deliver across all media platforms.

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How Twitter tracked the News of the World scandal

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jonathan Richards, Alex Graul, Martin Shuttleworth, Mariana Santos, Ranjit Dhaliwal, Alastair Dant - Jul. 14 (Special Report) - The Murdochs' decision to close the News of the World was greeted with a frenzy on Twitter. The Guardian has analysed half a million tweets sent with the #notw hashtag over the past four days to capture…

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Emphatic Farewell for British Paper Caught Up in Hacking Scandal

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Ravi Somaiya - Jul. 10 (News Report) - Reporters leaving the newsroom of The News of the World for the final time on Saturday night were told by the police to leave their desks, including their notebooks, untouched. They were allowed to keep only their cellphones. With that, the 168-year-old News of the World came to an end, brought down by a scandal over the interception of voicemail messages that is rocking Britain’s media, its police force and government, and threatens the empire of a previously unassailable mogul. The final edition included an apology to readers for the newspaper losing its way, as well as a defiant claim to being the “world’s greatest.”

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US orders news blackout over crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant: report

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation (Pakistan) - Jun. 19 (News) - A shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant located in Nebraska.

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Sarah Palin's letter from God

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Andrew Malcolm - Jun. 13 (News Report) - Among some 13,000 messages was an unexpected, revealing and touching email from Palin to friends and family.

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Sarah Palin E-mail Frenzy Backfires on Her Media Antagonists

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Toby Harnden - Jun. 11 (News Analysis) - The trove of more than 13,000 emails detailing almost every aspect of Sarah Palin’s governorship of Alaska, released late on Friday, paints a picture of her as an idealistic, conscientious, humorous and humane woman slightly bemused by the world of politics.

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How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory

Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Tim Dickinson - May. 30 (Special Report) - The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America's Unfair and Imbalanced Network

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The BBC Is Struggling to Tighten Its Belt

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sarah Lyall, Eric Pfanner - Apr. 23 (News Report) - David Cameron, the British prime minister, was in Brussels meeting the press last October when he took a few moments to make fun of the British Broadcasting Corporation. “Good to see that costs are being controlled everywhere,” Mr. Cameron said as he directed a mocking glance at three BBC correspondents, each from a different BBC program, covering his news conference. The implication: Considering that the BBC has agreed to freeze most of its public funding for six years, effectively sentencing itself to a 16 percent budget cut through 2017, it surely could have looked harder at its staffing needs for the event. “We’re all in this together,” Mr. Cameron said sarcastically, reciting his government’s favorite austerity slogan, and then added, “including, deliciously, the BBC.”

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New York Times Pay Wall Gets More Than 100,000 Takers in Early Weeks

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Advertising Age - By Nat Ives - Apr. 21 (News) - More than 100,000 people have forked over credit-card numbers to get through the digital pay wall erected by the New York Times on March 28.

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Fox gives Glenn Beck's show the boot

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Scott Collins, Melissa Maerz - Apr. 07 (News) - Sinking ratings, an ad boycott and a focus on conspiracies lead to its demise.Completing a swift rise and fall from TV stardom, controversial host Glenn Beck will lose his once-popular Fox News show later this year, the network announced Wednesday.

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Glenn Beck Contemplates Starting Own Channel

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Mar. 23 (News Analysis) - The possibility that Glenn Beck will exit the Fox News Channel at the end of the year has prompted a big question in media circles: if he leaves, how will he bring his considerable audience with him?

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'New York Times' Unveils Metered Online Paywall

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

All Things Considered - By David Folkenflik - Mar. 18 (News Report) - The Times is unveiling a metered system under which the paper's most loyal readers would pay for access to the website, though most casual online readers would not pay a cent. Print subscribers would also continue to receive unfettered access at no additional cost. Executives say the time is right, as people have been conditioned by tablets and smart phones to pay for access to content. "We have to be agnostic in regard to how people digest the news product," Janet Robinson, the CEO of The New York Times Co., said in an interview with NPR. "We can't force them to buy a print subscription. We can't force them to buy a digital application. We have to be there in every venue."

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Washington Post Admits Plagiarism by Reporter

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tanzina Vega - Mar. 17 (News) - The Washington Post published an editor’s note on its Web site Wednesday apologizing for two articles by a longtime Post reporter who used material from The Arizona Republic without crediting that newspaper or citing it as a source. The note said the articles “contained substantial material that was borrowed and duplicated, without attribution, from The Arizona Republic newspaper.”

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The State of the News Media 2011

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - By Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel, Paul Moore, Rick Edmonds, Deborah Potter - Mar. 14 (News Analysis) - By several measures, the state of the American news media improved in 2010. After two dreadful years, most sectors of the industry saw revenue begin to recover. With some notable exceptions, cutbacks in newsrooms eased. And while still more talk than action, some experiments with new revenue models began to show signs of blossoming. Among the major sectors, only newspapers suffered continued revenue declines last year—an unmistakable sign that the structural economic problems facing newspapers are more severe than those of other media. When the final tallies are in, we estimate 1,000 to 1,500 more newsroom jobs will have been lost—meaning newspaper newsrooms are 30% smaller than in 2000. Beneath all this, however, a more fundamental challenge to journalism became clearer in the last year. The biggest issue ahead may not be lack of audience or even lack of new revenue experiments. It may be that in the digital realm the news industry is no longer in control of its own future. News organizations — old and new — still produce most of the content audiences consume. But each technological advance has added a new layer of complexity—and a new set of players—in connecting that content to consumers and advertisers.

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Betting on News, AOL Is Buying The Huffington Post

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeremy W. Peters, Verne G. Kopytoff - Feb. 07 (News) - The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.

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Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Bill Keller - Jan. 27 (Special Report) - Is the WikiLeaks founder the great puppet master of the news media? He would like you to think so. But The Times’s dealings with him reveal a different story.

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New York Times Readies Pay Wall

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Russell Adams - Jan. 24 (News) - The New York Times next month is expected to begin offering a long-anticipated menu of online subscription packages, marking an important test for consumer willingness to pay for news.

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Olbermann-MSNBC split had been brewing for a while

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Paul Farhi - Jan. 23 (News Report) - A swirl of questions Saturday surrounded political provocateur Keith Olbermann's abrupt departure from MSNBC, the network he helped transform - by dint of his fiery eloquence and on-air presence - into the left's answer to Fox News.

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WikiLeaks' resilience shows strength of Internet-age lifelines

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Joby Warrick, Rob Pegoraro - Dec. 09 (News Report) - Over the past several days, the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks has been hit with a series of blows that have seemed to threaten its survival. Its primary Web address was deactivated, its PayPal account was frozen , and its Internet server gave it the boot .

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Glenn Beck's source for inflation fears actually has a sketchy history

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Examiner - By Ryan Witt - Nov. 10 (News Analysis) - In regards to their inflation claims, the NIA uses Republicans and fiscal conservatives to make their predictions rather than credible, non-partisan economists.

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MSNBC ends suspension of host Keith Olbermann

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Paul Farhi - Nov. 08 (News) - Olbermann, the host of the prime-time program "Countdown," was suspended by MSNBC on Friday after news broke that he'd contributed a total of $7,200 to three Democratic candidates in October.

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Rasmussen Polls Were Biased and Inaccurate; Quinnipiac, SurveyUSA Performed Strongly

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nate Silver - Nov. 05 (News Analysis) - On Tuesday, polls conducted by the firm Rasmussen Reports — which released more than 100 surveys in the final three weeks of the campaign, including some commissioned under a subsidiary on behalf of Fox News — badly missed the margin in many states, and also exhibited a considerable bias toward Republican candidates.

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At Rally, Thousands — Billions? — Respond

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sabrina Tavernise, Brian Stelter - Oct. 31 (News Report) - Part circus, part satire, part holiday parade, the crowds that flooded the National Mall for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” on Saturday made it a political event like no other.

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