These five companies continue to dominate digital advertising, according to our State of the News Media report.
In the last presidential campaign, journalists were responsible for only 27% of the information that voters heard about the candidates — while nearly 50% came from the politicians themselves.
Who runs the news cycle? Who controls the flow of information? Watch this video for a 5-minut explanation of how the role of the press has changed.
In 2012 LA Weekly surpassed the Village Voice to become the largest circulating alt-weekly in the U.S. Our State of the News Media website has more just-released numbers on circulation for newspapers and magazines here.
Reporting Power Diminishes in Tough Economy
See this and other findings in our State of the News Media 2013 infographic.
Do you still read magazines?
Time magazine saw the steepest plunge in 2012, as more than a quarter (27%) of its single-copy sales disappeared. More on news magazines in our State of the News Media report: http://pewrsr.ch/WRfcBd
Where do you get your news?
From a newspaper? Television? The radio? From a digital source, like social media or a news site? Perhaps all of the above.
In 2012, 39% of respondents got news online or from a mobile device “yesterday,” (the day before they participated in the survey) up from 34% in 2010.
Though “traditional” media may be declining as a primary source for news, online news has been on an incline since 2006. A further breakdown shows that 19% of respondents got news from social media and 16% did so from e-mail, while 8% said they’d listened to a podcast.
More digital developments from the State of the News Media report: http://pewrsr.ch/114ozuY
NPR Talk of the Nation: As Consumers Jump Ship, News Outlets Shift Priorities
(featuring Amy Mitchell, acting director, Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism)
Americans are abandoning their long-trusted news outlets in high numbers. According to a Pew Research Center report, 31 percent of Americans say they have deserted a particular news outlet because it no longer provides the information they want.
Circulation stabilized in 2012 for daily papers, and Sunday circulation grew, according to our new State of the News Media report.
The New York Times’ take on this year’s State of the News Media report:
With shorter stories and scarce coverage of politics and government, local television newscasts in the United States, like local newspapers before them, are suffering from “shrinking pains,” according to thePew Research Center.
“This adds up to a news industry that is more undermanned and unprepared to uncover stories, dig deep into emerging ones or to question information put into its hands,” the report’s main author, Amy Mitchell, wrote in an introduction.
What the 2012 Campaign Taught Us About the News Media:A special video report from our just-released State of the News Media 2013.
In this five-minute video report, Mark Jurkowitz breaks down the ways in which news coverage has changed in regards to political campaigns, and discusses the role of social media and direct messaging in campaign strategy.
The Washington Post, one of the last holdouts against the trend of charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, is likely to reverse that decision in 2013, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Post is one of the nation’s 450 daily papers (of 1,380 total) to adopt a digital pay plan, according to our just-released State of the News Media report.
(via politico)
"The survey also found that most news consumers (60%) knew little of nothing about the financial struggles that have led to some of the staff cuts and coverage cutbacks. But even a majority of those who did curiously missed the connection. Of those who had heard at least a little about journalism’s financial challenges, 57% said they didn’t think it had “much of an impact” on the media’s ability to cover news, local, national or international."
— Broadcasting & Cable’s take on our 10th annual edition of the State of the News Media.
