Satellite television and the expanding power of the Internet are not only changing the way news is delivered, but also the perception of what news is and the way journalists do their jobs. These changes are having a profound impact on the news business while at the same time providing societies with more information that can help strengthen freedom, democracy and human rights. VOA's Bill Rodgers has more in this report.
Trotz Internet: Das Fernsehen ist die wichtigste Informationsquelle der deutschen Internetnutzer. An zweiter Stelle folgt die Zeitung, hat die Allensbacher Computer- und Technikanalyse gezeigt. Beide klassischen Medien verlieren allerdings an Bedeutung. Dagegen legt das Internet schnell zu, ist aber hinter dem Radio noch an vierter Stelle.
"Over the past decade, publishers across the world have been concerned about declining rates of newspaper readership among young people. Among the newspaper community - national newspaper associations, newspaper-in-education committees, and academics - there is much debate about why this is happening and how to address the issue. Are young people interested in news and information? How does technology affect their daily media consumption? What rituals do they associate with newspaper readership?"
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A decade ago, just one-in-fifty Americans got the news with some regularity from what was then a brand new source the internet. Today, nearly one-in-three regularly get news online. But the growth of the online news audience has slowed considerably since 2000, particularly among the very young, who are now somewhat less likely to go online for news than are people in their 40s. For the most part, online news has evolved as a supplemental source that is used along with traditional news media outlets. It is valued most for headlines and convenience, not detailed, in-depth reporting. Broadcast news outlets continue to struggle over the last two years alone, the audiences for nightly network, local TV news and radio news have all slipped. Even so, the recent trends in news consumption are relatively stable when compared to the 1990s when TV news in particular was suffering losses of far greater magnitude.
"We absolutely have the ability to deliver a more comprehensive view of how news is consumed on the Internet," said Akamai's Chief Marketing Officer Lisa Arthur. "There are a lot of statistics out there about the declining viewership of networks news, the decline of print news and the increased use by the public of the Internet as a source of news."
In the competitive world of television news, it’s a given that stations need to know as much as possible about their viewers. But a groundbreaking study suggests that ratings and telephone surveys provide a less than complete picture of the audience and its viewing habits. The Middletown Media Studies examined how people really use the media by comparing the results of telephone surveys to diaries and to direct observation of people both at home and away from home. Co-author Bob Papper of Ball State University says one conclusion is inescapable: “If you think you know about your audience by asking them on the phone, you know nothing.”
Trinity Mirror's Teesside Evening Gazette is aiming to increase the number of contributors to its hyperlocal network of news websites to 1,000 over the next 12 months. The postcode-based community websites, which were rolled out from January last year as 'cousins' to the paper's Gazette Live website, feature content written and posted directly by a combination of non-journalists and the Gazette's editorial team.