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    Reporting Katrina

    A comprehensive look at how the news media are covering the hurricane and its aftermath.

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    State of the News Media 2005: Local TV

    After several difficult years, there are some positive signs heading into 2005 for local television news, the most pervasive source of news for Americans, if not always the most respected.

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    State of the News Media 2004: Local TV

    In nearly every aspect of local television – from viewership to economics to ownership structure – there are mixed signals of health and challenge. The next few years may determine whether the industry ultimately heads up or down. But at least one survey shows more people who work in local television news are pessimistic than optimistic about the industry’s future.

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    Local TV News Project 2002

    In a year when the nation was changed by the war on terrorism, a recession and financial scandals, the Project for Excellence in Journalism's fifth annual study found that local television news remained largely unchanged. The study was published in the November/December 2002 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review.

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    Cities Online: Urban Development and the Internet

    This report examines how institutions in five cities (Austin, Texas; Cleveland, Ohio; Nashville, Tennessee; Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C.) are adapting to the Internet as an economic development and community-building tool. The experiences in these communities suggests that the Internet is best used to encourage bottom-up initiatives, encourage and nurture catalytic individuals in communities, encourage public funding for technology programs, encourage “bridging” among groups, and encourage experimentation.

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    Local TV News Project 2001

    Local newsrooms beset by sponsor interference, budget cuts, layoffs, and added programming.

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    Local TV News Project 1999

    For all the "I-Team" graphics and driving music, enterprise reporting — the serious, proactive journalism that local TV so heavily promotes — is dropping precipitously.

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    Local TV News Project 1998

    In an initiative to find the correlation between quality local television journalism and ratings PEJ brings the practice of benchmarking–identifying models of quality in an industry–to local TV news.