State of the News Media 2006: An Annual Report on American Journalism
Scan the headlines of 2005 and one question seems inevitable: Will we recall this as the year when journalism in print began to die?
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Scan the headlines of 2005 and one question seems inevitable: Will we recall this as the year when journalism in print began to die?
For the newspaper industry, 2005 turned out to be the year of unpleasant surprises. Every indicator, including the number of news staff members that the nation’s best metro papers field every day, was on a steep downward path.
In a difficult time for media in general, the situation in cable news is now firmly split.
In 2005, the Web continued to grow as a source for news in America. The picture also began to look more nuanced. Rather than just something new and growing, we were beginning to see strengths, weaknesses and signs of maturity.
This was the year people in network TV news had anticipated for a generation.
Serious questions for the magazine industry come out of 2005.
Local TV news continues to face a complex future. The situation with audiences is hardly ideal. Ratings for the key early evening newscasts appear in most markets to be continuing their decline, and there may be trouble now in the early morning. But there are some indications that late local news, the programs that air after prime time, may be improving their audience appeal.
May 11, 2005 was not what most people would call an extraordinary day. A warm spell moved through the Northwest into the South. Rain pelted the Rust Belt, and it was still cold in the East.
Technology is turning what we once thought of as radio into something broader — listening.
The ethnic media continued to grow in 2005 with the continuing growth in immigration in the U.S. And while some of the data are soft, and there were even signs of declines in the circulation of print publications, the general picture was robust.
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