Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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.
Beyond all the facts and figures concerning the American news media, there are the attitudes and opinions journalists themselves have about their industry and profession. This section from the State of the News Media 2004 report details the results of a survey of more than 500 national and local reporters, editors and executives. The survey was conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in collaboration with the Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists.
A new PEJ study takes an in-depth look at tabloids and compares them to traditional broadsheet newspapers.
Much has been made of the surge of emotion among journalists who covered the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and to a lesser degree Hurricane Rita.