Who is this man? Many Americans don’t recognize top news anchor
The lower public awareness of news anchors reflects a large decline in the audience for nightly network news since the 1980s.
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The Growth in Digital Reporting
At a time when print newsrooms continue to shed jobs, thousands of journalists are now working in the growing world of native digital news—at small non-profits, big commercial sites and other content outlets that have moved into original news reporting.
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A Boom in Acquisitions and Content Sharing Shapes Local TV News in 2013
Local television in the U.S. saw massive change in 2013, change that remained under the radar of most Americans. Big owners of local TV stations got substantially bigger, thanks to a wave of station purchases. While the TV business profited, the impact on consumers is less clear and seems to vary from one market to the next.
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Groupwide News Sharing
Content sharing by local television newsrooms also occurs across markets. Stations in different markets that are owned or operated by the same company share content regularly, both on air and online, and these collaborations have exploded in the past two years thanks to the pace of consolidation and new technology. News sharing across station groups […]
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Mapping Twitter Topic Networks: From Polarized Crowds to Community Clusters
People connect to form groups on Twitter for a variety of purposes. The networks they create have identifiable contours that are shaped by the topic being discussed, the information and influencers driving the conversation, and the social network structures of the participants.
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5 facts about Fox News in 2014
Fox News President Roger Ailes has turned the channel into a powerhouse that dominates the cable news ratings and wields substantial power in the world of conservative politics.
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Other Earned Revenue Streams
The continued pressures on audience and advertising revenue have led some news producers to begin to experiment with other forms of earned revenue, some of which are tied directly to the news product and some of which are not. These include events, digital marketing services, e-commerce, content licensing and even commercial printing and delivery. For […]
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Who Covers the Statehouse
These 1,592 reporters come from a wide range of outlets and sectors. Even with the declines of the last decade, newspapers still employ the greatest portion of all statehouse reporters—38% of the total. The next largest employer, television stations, account for less than half as many (17%). They are followed by reporters working for a […]
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Regulation
The FCC has been reviewing its rules on television station ownership for almost four years but still has not completed its work. During this time, opponents of consolidation have repeatedly appealed to the federal government to stem the tide of consolidation. In 2013, Free Press, Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the American Cable Association separately petitioned […]
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Elaborations: More Expert Responses
Each increment of growth in bandwidth has enabled new communication, new participation in communities, more effective outreach to broader social networks, more access to information, and more algorithmic interventions to sort and filter data. Most of the experts in this canvassing see all those trends being amplified in the decade to come as gigabit connectivity […]