Media advertising determines how many reporters a news medium can hire and how effectively it can cover the news. According to Pew Research Center, the pandemic has had a particularly rough impact on newspaper advertising revenue. The organization compared the …
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The Pandemic’s Effect on Media Advertising
Major Newspaper Boosts Investigative Staff
While the cuts in newspaper staff seem endless, the Washington Post says it plans to hire 12 more investigative reporters … The Hill has the story.…
American Journalism Project Readies to Act
Since the Great Recession American newspapers have seen their revenues cut by nearly half. Thousands of jobs in the industry have been slashed and still it is having trouble recovering. Hoping to plug the dike is the American Journalism Project…
How do Americans Prefer Getting Their News
Would you rather listen to the news, watch it, or read it? Depending on your answer, you could be in the minority of how Americans consume news. The largest group, roughly half of all Americans, prefer getting their news from …
A World Without Newspapers
Advertising revenue is the lifeblood of newspapers. From 2000 to 2016 U.S. newspaper advertising income has declined from $65 billion to less than $19 billion. The falloff isn’t stopping. A number of newspapers no longer exist and most are dying, …
Censorship in School Newspapers
Some Teen Journalists Encounter Censorship
Sensitive subjects — from investigations into personnel matters to relationships — are provoking anger and censorship for some school newspapers, according to the New York Times. Its story notes that a 1988 Supreme Court …
Annual “State of the News Media” Report
Last week Pew Research Center came out with its annual “State of the News Media” report which they have been producing since 2004. It is actually a series of fact sheets that document the evolving way we consume news. For …
Newspapers Continue Their Decline
There are many interesting facts provided by Pew Research Center in their “State of the News Media” report. Today, we look at their “Newspaper Fact Sheet”. It clearly provides evidence for the continuing, sad, rapid decline of daily newspapers’ …
Annual State of the News Media Reports
The Pew Research Center has begun releasing its annual analysis of the state of the news media. Its first two reports on newspapers and cable news were posted yesterday online here. These annual reports which look at audience composition …
AI Journalism at The Washington Post
A Wired story explains how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used at The Washington Post to write mundane, data heavy stories. At this point, journalist at the newspaper see it as helpful, allowing them to address the more mundane aspect …