NSA coverage wins Pulitzer, but Americans remain divided on Snowden leaks
Percentage of the public saying in January that Edward Snowden’s leaks “served the public interest,” compared with 43% who say the leaks “harmed the public interest.”
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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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The Growing Importance of Audience Revenue
After several years of hesitation, the newspaper industry in 2012 moved heavily into digital subscription plans, also known as paywalls. These paywalls helped the newspaper industry raise circulation revenue by 5% in 2012, the first gain in subscription revenue since 2003. As 2013 ended, around 500 dailies—and possibly more—had implemented or had plans to implement […]
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Data Feed: Partisan Senate polls, Census changes, Health care sign-ups
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Audience Revenue
The second-biggest source of revenue for the industry comes from the paying public, accounting for 24% of total known news-related revenue, according to Pew Research estimates. This includes circulation revenue as well as license and retransmission fees, which also come out of consumers’ pockets in the form of cable bills, along with individual giving, typically […]
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What the Digital News Boom Means for Consumers
Is Digital News Filling Key Reporting Gaps? In response to a Pew Research survey question from 2012, one official at a digital nonprofit described his editorial mission as “filling the holes that chain media outlets swerve around.” That description gets to the heart of a major question. As cuts in legacy organizations have forced editors […]
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Revenue Sources: A Heavy Dependence on Advertising
Even under duress, advertising remains by far the most critical revenue stream for the U.S. news media as a whole. More than two-thirds (69%) of all domestic news revenue is derived from advertising. That amounts to roughly $43 billion of the $63 billion accounted for in this report, according to the most recent annual figures.[2. […]
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The Losses in Legacy
Overall, the decade-long trend in newspaper job losses continues. According to the annual American Society of Newspaper Editors survey, the number of full-time newsroom jobs in 2012 (the last year for which complete data are available) slipped to 38,000. That is the lowest number since the society began counting in 1978. In the decade from […]
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News revenue declines despite growth from new sources
The sources of the estimated $63-$65 billion dollars supporting print, online and broadcast news has shifted, with advertising dollars declining and audience payments, in the form of subscriptions, for example, comprising a bigger share.
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5 facts about the news business today
The good news – and the bad news – about the news.
