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“It appears the fundamental issue for the future of journalism is not audiences splintering away to citizen media, corporate PR and other non-news venues. In many ways the audience for news—and for what traditional newsrooms produce—appears to be growing. Nor are journalists failing to adapt. There are more signs in 2008 than ever that news people embrace the new technology and want to innovate.

“The problem, it is increasingly clear, is a broken economic model—the decoupling of advertising and news. Advertisers are not migrating to news websites with audiences, and online, news sites are already falling financially behind other kinds of web destinations.”

Will cover more of the findings and insights later, in the meanwhile:

Read about Major Trends HereÂ

Read Full Report Here

A few weeks ago I wrote a post linking to Scott Karp’s Publishing 2.0 Blog where he talked about Reinventing journalism - links as news, links as reporting

I just came across this article “Opening Bell: The economy’s toxic blend” in the Columbia Journalism review today, which is a stunning example of this in action. While not a warm, fuzzy topic, it is an example of bringing depth and breadth to a story and creating a controlled experience for the reader, with exit points to further educate yourself right along the way. This article can take 5 mins or 50 mins to read, you can learn 5 things or 50, its up to you - this is journalism reinvented.

The Project for Excellence will release the State of the News Media 2008 report on Monday, March 17. The report examines the health and status of journalism in America, and it includes major industry trends, specific analysis of the eight main media sectors, and the following additional features such as:

• A Year in the News, a new comprehensive content analysis of 70,000 stories from 48 news outlets in five different kinds of media.
• A survey of a cross-section of journalists that reveals how they feel about the future of the profession
• The view of the advertising industry from Madison Avenue
• A content analysis study of 64 citizen media sites
• Links to key industry statistics

Check out last year’s at this link:
http://www.lucindigo.com/2007/03/21/2007/

The “Big Ten” media conglomerates

“The media cartel that keeps us fully entertained and permanently half-informed is always growing here and shriveling there”

A lot and not much at all has changed since 2002 when this was written. If you don’t have time to read it - catch the last paragraph at least:

“In short, the news divisions of the media cartel appear to work against the public interest–and for their parent companies, their advertisers and the Bush Administration. The situation is completely un-American. It is the purpose of the press to help us run the state, and not the other way around. As citizens of a democracy, we have the right and obligation to be well aware of what is happening, both in “the homeland” and the wider world. Without such knowledge we cannot be both secure and free. We therefore must take steps to liberate the media from oligopoly, so as to make the government our own.”

Read article “What’s wrong with this picture” By Mark Crispin Miller Here