Many Americans are unsure whether sources of news do their own reporting
Roughly half of Americans or more were able to correctly identify whether three of the six sources asked about do their own reporting.
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Roughly half of Americans or more were able to correctly identify whether three of the six sources asked about do their own reporting.
Overall, about two-in-ten Americans say they have ever spoken with or been interviewed by a local journalist.
Though the revenue involved and amount of content produced are nowhere near what comes through the more mainstream media, crowdfunding can help bring to reality work that might otherwise not see the light of day.
Jesse Holcomb, associate director of research at the Center, explains how the new report was put together.
Our new report on local news in a digital age looks at both the organizations providing the news and the residents consuming it.
At a time when ordinary citizens are increasingly functioning as on-scene reporters, nearly three-quarters (72%) of that amateur content that aired on these television outlets was not identified as such.
Five key data points from the Knight Foundation report that provide a sense of how the nonprofit news field is faring.
Photographers, along with other visual journalists, represent the category of newsroom staffers hit hardest by the rounds of job cuts.
Professional journalists have long faced the risks of working in harm’s way, but now conflicts like the one in Syria are claiming the lives of a new part of the media — citizen journalists.
In recent years, natural disasters around the world have been chronicled by a new kind of visual journalism, often produced by citizen eyewitnesses and posted to the video sharing site YouTube. These videos represent a way of “crowdsourcing” a dramatic breaking news event, frequently before professional journalists can arrive on the scene.
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