State of the News Media 2005: Local TV
After several difficult years, there are some positive signs heading into 2005 for local television news, the most pervasive source of news for Americans, if not always the most respected.
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State of the News Media 2005: Magazines
For decades now, the world of news magazines has been dominated by three brands. Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report have been around for so long without serious challengers that the news genre has seemed the exception to the rule of the constantly shifting world of magazine publishing.
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State of the News Media 2005: Magazines
For decades now, the world of news magazines has been dominated by three brands. Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report have been around for so long without serious challengers that the news genre has seemed the exception to the rule of the constantly shifting world of magazine publishing.
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State of the News Media 2005: Radio
Most media analysis tends to focus on seismic shifts. Plummeting viewership. Skyrocketing profit margins. Grand scandals. Declining public trust. Radio is interesting in part because it tends to defy such characterizations. Its struggles and transformations usually occur just below the surface. Change is based on gradual progression, and, if we were to watch only the numbers, 2004 would be viewed as a year of seeming, even dull, stability.
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State of the News Media 2005: Ethnic/Alternative Media
As the immigrant population of the U.S. continues to grow, so too, apparently, do the ethnic media.
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Confronting the Seduction of Secrecy
Speech delivered at the Washington Press Club
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Differences among Cable Channels (Iraq War Reportage)
Our content analysis also shows measurable differences in what each of the cable networks puts on the air. This study made no attempt to identify bias, or whether one network tilted to the Democrats or Republicans. Some more basic distinctions, however, were evident. Fox was measurably more one-sided than the other networks, and Fox journalists […]
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A New Journalism for Democracy in a New Age
A speech delivered at the Escuela de Periodismo UAM/El País, Madrid, Spain, February 1, 2005
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The Debate Effect
A PEJ study on how the press covered the pivotal period of the 2004 Presidential Campaign.
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The End of “Network News”
What happened this summer, and particularly last week, is likely to be recalled as the end of the era of network news. At the very least, mark this as the moment when the networks abdicated their authority with the American public.