"Josh Wolf, a 24-year-old blogger, has spent more than six months behind bars in California -- the longest contempt-of-court term ever served by someone in the media"
"Over the past months, I've heard several journalists make the same comment at various industry forums: That blogs are a "parasitic" medium that wouldn't be able to exist without the reporting done at newspapers.
"Are Web loggers journalists? The question touches on not just legal arguments, such as how elastic shield laws are or should be, but also includes cultural and political overtones. If, for instance, a blogger seeks to claim the privileges of being a journalist, should we expect him to follow the same general rules -- including contacting all sides to the story and verifying facts independently?"
"While newspaper circulation continues to slide, readership is growing, especially with younger readers -- when taking online newspaper sites into consideration. According to the latest data from the Newspaper Association of America, newspaper Web sites contributed a 13.7% increase in total newspaper audience for adults 25-to-34."
-Robert Kuttner, columnist for the Boston Globe, predicts in the Columbia Journalism Review that newspapers will all be digital within 25 years. Despite gloomy forecasts and a late start, most newspapers have engaged into a viable transition to digital.
"A new Pew survey may offer some good news to a journalism industry eagerly seeking new and younger customers. People in the rapidly growing ranks of wireless Internet users are more likely to retrieve news online than those who access the web in other ways."
"The US Readership Institute (RI) delves into the results of the General Social Survey, which revealed that the public still trusts its local daily, much more so than other media. Newspapers still hold on to – and must use – the information industry’s most powerful asset: credibility."
Influential elites in China trust online news twice as much as newspapers but not as much as television
"Budde reaffirmed the importance of online news for the expansion of press freedom. Currently, online news portals like Yahoo, MSNBC, AOL, CNN or Google are all crushing the web traffic of US newspapers, led by the NY Times, leading to widespread diffusion of news...On the other hand, Budde also underlined that 90% of all available online news comes from three newswires, Associated Press, Agence F
As people become more focused on the news they read online, the editor's role within traditional media because even more important "because our mission is to expose you to things you wouldn't have clicked on." ~Charles Gibson
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