A New Journalism for Democracy in a New Age
A speech delivered at the Escuela de Periodismo UAM/El País, Madrid, Spain, February 1, 2005
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
A speech delivered at the Escuela de Periodismo UAM/El País, Madrid, Spain, February 1, 2005
A PEJ study on how the press covered the pivotal period of the 2004 Presidential Campaign.
What happened this summer, and particularly last week, is likely to be recalled as the end of the era of network news. At the very least, mark this as the moment when the networks abdicated their authority with the American public.
If presidential campaigns are about character and control of message, neither candidate has had much success so far, a new PEJ study finds.
Journalists are unhappy with the way things are going in their profession these days. This report is part of Pew Research Center’s 2004 State of the News Media publication.
Glance at some items in the news of late and it seems that many long-held ideas about journalism are unraveling.
Although the economics are still evolving, the Internet has now become a major source of news in America.
For more than two generations, the percentage of Americans reading newspapers has been shrinking. Until 1970 the problem was partially masked by population growth. Overall circulation kept rising. Through the 1980s most of the circulation losses were occurring in afternoon papers. The survivors were stable and financially robust.
Network television news was once the most trusted source of information in America. It also had a monopoly over pictures and television reporting from across the country and around the world.
The convenience of 24-hour cable TV news, offering the latest breaking headlines at any time of the day or night, represents an enormous structural advantage for cable over network television. Cable has become the television news medium of choice. The network most cited as the No. 1 source for news remains CNN, preferred over the broadcast networks and even its cable rivals.