Journalism Trends

Journalist Starts Mom, Always, a Website for Mothers Who Are Terminally Ill

Middle-aged Pontificators Aside, the Future Belongs to the Young

Study Finds That People Want Local News, and are Willing to Pay for it

Why Does Campaign Coverage Still Focus on the Horse Race?

Journalism One of the Worst Jobs? Try telling That to my Students

Syrian Regime Extends its Brutal Crackdown to the News Media

The 2012 Pulitzer Prizes Represent Triumph Over Adversity

Study Says News Consumption is Up, but Tech Firms are Making the Money

Why Paywalls Are a Good Thing for Newspapers

A Pack of Predictions by Media Pundits That Proved to be Just Plain Wrong

Study Says Newspapers Are Slow to Find New Sources of Revenue in the Digital Age

Why Should Everything on the Internet be Free?

I Really Like Jon Stewart, but Here's What Bothers me About him

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Jon Stewart, Media Critic

Local Newspapers Can Make Paywalls Work Too

Technology Isn't a Religion. So Don't Take it so Seriously.

How Can Newspapers Remain Profitable in the Digital Media Age?

Why Can't Paywalls Work?

Journalism, Entrepreneurs, Not Every Journalist Can be an Entrepreneur

Free News is Based on an Illusion

Author Mark Bauerlein Says Tools of the Digital Age Distract Young People From Reading the News

Five Reasons Why Journalism Students Should Follow the News

Sunshine Week Highlights the Right to Access Public Records

An Art Exhibit Inspired by Newspaper Stories

Sept. 11, 2001 and the News Business - Journalism in a Post 9/11 Age

China, journalism, censorship, news coverage

China, Censorship, News Media, Journalism

China Train Crash, Government Censorship, Chinese Journalists, News Media

Sensationalism, Journalism, the News Media and Jon Stewart - Is Sensationalism in the News Media Bad?

Violence Against Journalists, Killings of Journalists, CPJ Impunity Index

Stories about the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World

Phone-Hacking Scandal Grows Out of Brit-Tab Tradition

But No-Holds-Barred Approach to Reporting is Likely to Continue, Scholar Says

Newspapers - Why Newspapers Are Still Important

What Happens to Coverage of Average Folks If Newspapers Die?

Even the Digital Literati Can't Predict the Future of the News Business

Did Baby-Boomers Have Have A Stranglehold on Newspapers For Too Long?

Closing the University of Colorado Journalism School was the Wrong Move

News Outlets That Influence What Stories Are Covered

A Focus on Hard-Hitting Investigative Journalism

Newsrooms With Little Time for Stories That Dig Beneath the Surface

News Coverage of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and and Kate Middleton - Shouldn't News Coverage of the Monarchy Be More Restrained and Critical?

A Hotly Debated Topic in the News Business

If 2009 was one of the worst years ever for the news business, there was no place to go but up. In 2010 newsroom layoffs slowed and some places even started hiring. No major papers closed, and the so-called called visionaries who once predicted the demise of print journalism were oddly silent. Meanwhile, there were scandals aplenty.

Japanese News Media, Nuclear Crisis - Are Japanese News Media Asking Government Tough Questions About Nuclear Crisis?

News Coverage of the Egyptian Uprising

Should the Controversial Arabic News Network be More Widely Available in the U.S.?

Complaints About News Coverage of Michael Jackson's Death Missed Sight of What News Is

Study That Says Most News Still Comes From Papers Irks New Media Oracles

Stories About Arianna Huffington and The Huffington Post

In Reaching for Journalism's Future, Some Devalued its Past

Don't Expect to Hit the Best-seller Lists, says Author Scott Flander

El Diario Editorial Sparks Debate Over Murders of Reporters by Druglords

The Technology of Journalism Improves, But Young People Still Avoid the News

Sharon Waxman's excellent site the Wrap sent a cease-and-desist letter to Newser CEO Patrick Spain demanding that he stop using the Wrap's content. And News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch steps up his rhetoric against search engines that aggregate news stories.

The media missed signs that GOP underdog Scott Brown might win the special election to succeed the late Edward Kennedy in the U.S. Senate, and paid little attention to the upstart candidate until the final weeks of the campaign, a study says.

The first online news source to win a Pulitzer - ProPublica, for a story "that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital's exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina."

News outlets - print, online and otherwise - are hiring again, says Dan Rohn, founder of JournalismJobs.com.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Bucks Convention by Charging for Online News

At America East, the trade show for newspaper companies and their suppliers, there's a sense of defiance against the doom-and-gloom predictions that newspapers are dead or dying.

We live in a free-market system in which the almighty dollar, like it or not, usually dictates the future. And in this case the almighty dollar says newspapers are going to be around for awhile.

The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism says the audience for news is growing in two areas - cable TV and online. Newspaper circulation continues to slide.

Online advertising doesn't work. That's one of the findings of the "State of the News Media" report by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism.

If I want to know how the public schools that my kids attend are doing, or find out if my property taxes are going up, or know whether the local zoning board approved a new mall on the edge of town, chances are I'll need to check my local paper for that.

Many of the same experts who predicted that online ads would foot the bill for a brave new world of Internet journalism are trying to convince us that we shouldn't try to make people pay for online news.

Blogs and Op-eds Are Fine, But Many on the Right See the Need for More Hard-News Exposes

Author Tries to Chart the Coming Trends in the News Business

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... actually, 2009 was pretty much the worst of times for the news business, especially for newspapers. Layoffs continued by the thousands and two big metro papers closed. But there was the sense, at year's end, that the worst of it was over, that if you looked closely you might actually see...

It's hard to image a more tumultuous decade for journalism than the 2000s. The first decade of the 21st century witnessed the rise of the Internet and corresponding decline of newspapers. Media titans like Rupert Murdoch left their mark on the industry while scandals rocked some of the most storied news organizations.

When it comes to the history of journalism, everything starts with the invention of the movable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century.

Sober and Serious vs. Scrappy and Irreverent

Some Say the Internet Will Kill Off Papers, Others Say Not So Fast

In the United States, it's rare for a reporter to have to risk life and limb. But in much of the world, reporters are often thrown in jail, beaten or even killed just for doing their jobs. And the death toll killed is on the rise. Here are stories about such incidents happening around the globe.

Hearing Features Compelling Testimony From "The Wire" Creator David Simon

Millions of Americans get their news from the cable networks CNN, MSNBC or Fox News. Yet two of those - Fox News and MSNBC - have gained notoriety not for their news coverage but for their prime-time opinion programming featuring such voluble hosts as Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann. Critics say these shows shed more heat than light.

Obama Gets More Positive Coverage Than Bush or Clinton

It’s a chilling but all-too common scenario: A student writes something controversial in a high school or college newspaper, and the faculty adviser to the paper faces heat from the school’s administration. Some advisers are reassigned, demoted or even fired.

Web surfers are reading newspaper websites more than ever. So says the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, which studies such things. The center found that internet users read online newspapers for an average of 53 minutes per week in 2008, the highest level recorded in the eight years the study has been done. That compares to 41 minutes per week in 2007.

Here's a newsflash: Many people don't think the news media is accurate in its reporting. In fact, a survey by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press finds that the public’s view of the accuracy of news stories is at its lowest level in more than 20 years.

The honeymoon between President Obama and the media seems to be ending. After enjoying fairly positive coverage in the early months of his presidency, media coverage of Obama has grown more critical in recent weeks as his poll numbers have slipped.

The case of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and the peephole video showing her naked in a hotel room has stirred up plenty of controversy in the news business.

The Erin Andrews peephole video scandal may have set the Internet abuzz, but the idea of women sportscasters being objectified as sex objects is old news to Anne Doyle. As a sports anchor and reporter Doyle covered the likes of Reggie Jackson, Bobby Knight, Bo Schembechler, Isiah Thomas and Kirk Gibson.

Keith Olbermann says he hasn't signed on to any peace accord with Bill O'Reilly. In his "Worst Persons" segment Monday night, the MSNBC host said he had never agreed to a ceasefire with his Fox News nemesis.

Walter Cronkite hadn't been dead more than a week before some conservative pundits started dredging up old canards about the CBS News anchor's legacy being tainted by his supposed liberal bias.

Wacky conspiracy theories about President Obama not being a U.S. citizen have spilled into the mainstream media. The Associated Press, NBC News and other mainstream news outlets have run stories on the belief, held by some on the far-right, that Obama was not born in the U.S.

A Connecticut newspaper reporter who received a series of phone calls from a man who had taken his ex-wife hostage and was holding police at bay says her experience as a journalist helped her through the ordeal.

The ban on the press photographing the flag-draped caskets of fallen U.S. soldiers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware has been lifted. But few reporters or photographers now show up to chronicle the solemn ritual that attends the return home of the nation's war dead.

The Pulitzer prizes are announced, and The New York Times was the big winner, walking away with five awards in journalism's most prestigious competition.

The House passes a bill that would give limited protection in federal court to reporters who choose not to reveal confidential information or sources.

Under the Newspaper Revitalization Act introduced by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), newspapers could choose to operate as non-profits under section 501(c)(3) of the tax code for educational purposes, similar to public TV and radio. Tax-exempt papers would not be allowed to make political endorsements, but could freely report on all issues, including political campaigns.

Many Journalists Find They Love Teaching, But There Are Adjustments To Be Made

Offering Encouragement and Advice to Future Journalists at a Time When Layoffs Are All-Too Common

Last year the folks who award the Pulitzer Prize announced that for the first time ever they would accept submissions from web-only news operations. Now some of those web-only newsrooms are planning to submit articles for the Pulitzer contest.

In a clear departure from the secrecy that characterized the Bush administration, President Barack Obama has told federal agencies to err on the side of disclosure when responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The move was hailed by journalists, who often use FOIA requests to gain access to government documents.

As expected, newspapers nationwide sold hundreds of thousands of extra copies to readers who snapped them up as keepsakes of Barack Obama's inauguration.

A passenger on one of the ferries that helped rescue passengers of the U.S. Airways jet that ditched in the Hudson River takes a photo that takes the Internet by storm.

High school and college newspaper advisers are now protected from retaliation by school administrators under a new California law. The Journalism Teacher Protection Act bars administrators from retaliating against advisers when their students publish stories the administrators don't like.

A much less restrictive open-records law has taken effect in the keystone state. The new law declares that all state, county and local government records are public unless specifically exempted.

A Year Most in the News Business Would Rather Forget

The Defense Department lifts an 18-year-old ban on the news media photographing the flag-draped caskets of fallen U.S. soldiers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Defense Secretary Robert Gates decided to allow photos of the caskets if the families of the dead agree.

A Wickedly Funny Take On Journalists' Quirks

An Historic First For Print Journalism's Highest Honor.

Were the Mumbai Terror Attacks a Defining Moment for Citizen Journalism?

The Press Likes a Winner, According to a Pew Research Center study on news coverage of the election.

FOX News, MSNBC and Objectivity in Cable News

Stories About the Pulitzer Prize - Print Journalism's Highest Honor