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Business Views Change Little Interest in the Enron case has been steadily increasing over the past two months, outpacing other news stories such as the Winter Olympics and the congressional debate over the budget and taxes. Currently, 28% say they are following the investigation into the Enron bankruptcy very closely, up from 19% in mid-January, […]
This study was conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a journalists’ group in Washington, D.C., affiliated with the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Tom Rosenstiel, director of the PEJ, was lead writer. Carl Gottlieb, the deputy director, supervised all aspects of the study. Atiba Pertilla and […]
The questions that naturally follow are about the future: Do these changes in the news agenda represent some long-term transformation? When the war subsides and the threat against America from terrorism is perceived to be less imminent, will the nightly news and the morning news return to a pre-September 11th definition of normalcy? In short, […]
On September 11th terrorism spurred television news people to do what they do best. Producers suddenly were allowed to create news programs rather than gimmick-filled promotional vehicles. Reporters were asked to cover something important and take care to get it right. The anchor mugging and bon mots largely disappeared. Can it last? Local television news […]
By Andrew Tyndall One might think local and network news together would provide viewers with a full plate, a well-rounded hour of local, national and international news plus sports, weather and traffic. As comprehensive as this hour of news is designed to be, the latest study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism reveals that […]
By Carl Gottlieb and Atiba Pertilla By any measure of financial success, quality journalism sells. In the four years that the Project for Excellence in Journalism has conducted its annual study of local television news, 55 percent of “A” stations have successful ratings trends, better than any other grade. This year we found quality is […]
It’s becoming clearer, over dozens of stations, thousands of stories, and millions of viewers. There are some things we can demonstrate audiences want. They are characteristics commercially successful stations share – whether this study rates them as good quality stations or bad. They are the things news directors should ask for in their budget meetings, […]
The definition of news on the three evening newscasts has been transformed, from a diet that was more than a third lifestyle, celebrity and crime to something that has shifted back to levels of traditional hard news we have not seen in decades. In June, lifestyle and feature stories made up 20% of the nightly […]