Pew Releases 2010 News Coverage Index Raw Data

July 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has released their 2010 News Coverage Index raw data. Their findings can be used by scholars for their research by visiting the PEJ website: http://www.journalism.org/by_the_numbers/datasets.

A press release from PEJ says:

The News Coverage Index (NCI)—The NCI captures and analyzes some 50 news outlets in real time to determine what is being covered and what is not in the U.S. news media. The NCI launched in January 2007 and has run continuously since. Weekly findings are released every Tuesday in a concise narrative that charts the top stories of the week, trajectory of the coverage and differences among media sectors. In all, the 2010 NCI sample includes 52 outlets, every Monday through Sunday. The key variables include source, story date, big story, broad story topic, placement, format, geographic focus, story word count, duration of broadcast story and lead newsmaker. The outlets studied come from print, network TV, cable, online, and radio. They include evening and morning network news, several hours of daytime and prime time cable news each day, newspapers from around the country, the top online news sites, and radio, including headlines, long form programs and talk.

To view the data, visit the PEJ website or learn more about it from the PEJ press release.

 

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NYT as the comeback kid: 280,000 subscribers for digital NYT

July 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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By Joe Pompeo on Yahoo! News Blog, July 26 – What better way for New York Times executives to celebrate the news that 281,000 subscribers are now paying to read the publication in digital form than with a magazine cover story about the paper of record’s comeback?

A comeback is indeed the premise of Seth Mnookin’s feature in New York Magazine this week.

Remember back in the ’00s, when the Times had lost a fair chunk of its credibility thanks to a former intern who made up stories and a seasoned reporter who believed stories other people made up? When the advent of online news began to suck the life out of the Gray Lady’s business model? When some media watchers thought it plausible that the iconic news outlet might not even exist in another few months?

No more!

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FCC: Cross-ownership may increase some local news

July 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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By Julie Moos on Poytner, July 25 – New studies commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission suggest media consolidation has not harmed local news; in some cases, cross-ownership may help. The studies are part of the FCC’s mandate to review media ownership rules. There will be a total of 10 studies, seven of which have now been released. One of the newest studies finds:

“Individual television stations that are cross-owned with newspapers air more local news than comparable stations in the market. However, the television markets that contain these cross-ownership relationships do not air any more (or perhaps air even less) local news programming than comparable markets (presumably due to a reduction in news from the non-cross-owned stations).”

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How Journalists Are Using Google+

July 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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From Meghan Peters on Mashable, July 18 – Social networks have proved to be incredible distribution platforms for real-time news and continue to fascinate journalists as communication tools. It’s no surprise that many media professionals have jumped quickly on the Google+ band wagon to explore its potential for journalism.

Some are updating personal accounts while others have created profiles for their organizations. They’re in experimentation mode, testing out which features are most beneficial for messaging and engaging with their audiences.

Google+ has yet to be defined. For the news industry, it will become what the early adopters of the field make of it. Here are a few ways we’ve seen media professionals using the platform and what that might mean for the future of Google+ in journalism.

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New Pew Study: Nonprofit Journalism Doesn’t Mean Ideology-Free

July 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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By Joshua Benton on Nieman Journalism Lab, July 18 – Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism is out with a new study this morning that looks at the new universe of nonprofit journalism — and tries to get beyond the ProPublicas of the world to see who else is producing journalism under the legal structure of a 501(c)3 exemption. After all, remember, “nonprofit” signals a tax status, not a belief system or a commitment to any particular ideals, journalistic or otherwise.

The study found more than a little ideology lurking under that IRS umbrella. Of the 46 sites examined — 39 nonprofit and 7 commercial as a control — around half “produced news coverage that was clearly ideological in nature,” the researchers report.

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BBC Publishes Social Media Guidelines for Journalists

July 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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By The Next Web, Jul 14 – The Next Web has written before about the double-edged sword of social media. On the one hand it can boost profiles and raise revenue, on the other it can get a lot of people in hot-water if someone steps even a little bit out of line.

From a journalistic perspective, social media is also emerging as an important tool for hacks to engage and network with the wider community. And the BBC has today published its social media guidelines for its staff working in news.

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Rebekah Brooks Resigns From News Corp.

July 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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By Nat Ives on AdAge, July 15 – Days after shutting down its 168-year-old News of the World and abandoning its $12 billion attempt to buy the rest of satellite giant British Sky Broadcasting, News Corp. has absorbed another consequence of its phone hacking scandal by accepting the resignation of Rebekah Brooks, CEO of its British newspapers division.

Ms. Brooks was editor at News of the World during much of the phone hacking that has enraged Britain, but has said she knew nothing about any of it. News Corp. chairman-CEO Rupert Murdoch had stood by her even as he walked away from the paper, its 200 employees and, most recently, the BSkyB deal.

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Aggregation is Part of the Future of Media

July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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By Mathew Ingram on Gigaom, July 13 – There’s been a lot of commentary flying around about a recent incident in which The Huffington Post “over-aggregated” a piece from Advertising Age, including a complaint from the original writer, an apology from one of the Huffington Post’s new senior editors, and the suspension of the HuffPo writer responsible for the post. This incident has proven to be another handy stick for traditional media outlets to beat The Huffington Post with, since it has become the poster child for the negative aspects of aggregation. But it doesn’t change the fact that aggregation, broadly speaking, is a crucial — and fundamentally valuable — part of the future of media.

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AP Updates Social Media Guidelines for Staffers

July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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By Dylan Stableford on Yahoo News, July 14 – A week after issuing a memo warning staffers not to express their opinions on Facebook and Twitter, the Associated Press sent an updated copy of social media guidelines to its global news staff.

The new guidelines include “an elaboration of our policies on expressing personal opinions on social networks,” Tom Kent, the AP’s deputy managing editor for standards and production, wrote in the memo. “Just as social media and its uses continue to evolve, so will our policies related to this topic.”

From the updated “Opinion” section:

Everyone who works for AP must be mindful that opinions he or she expresses may damage the AP’s reputation as an unbiased source of news. AP employees must refrain from declaring their views on contentious public issues in any public forum and must not take part in demonstrations in support of causes or movements. This includes liking and following pages and groups that are associated with these causes or movements.

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New TV Stations Boom With Lack of Egyptian Censorship

July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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By EMAD MEKAY on NYTimes.com, July 13: CAIRO — In Tahrir Square, Egypt’s revolution is playing out before the world’s cameras; but off-screen another revolution is happening that may be just as important.

These are busy times for Egyptian Media Production City, Egypt’s largest media services company, which runs a sprawling studio complex on the outskirts of Cairo.

Stimulated by deregulation and an insatiable demand for news and information amid the uncertainties that have followed the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, investors are racing to set up new television channels.

Since Mr. Mubarak was toppled on Feb. 11, a total of 16 new Egyptian channels have obtained licenses to broadcast to the country’s 85 million people and via satellite to the larger market of 310 million in the Arab world.

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