Media Standards Trust

Highlights of the USC digital future report (complete report available for purchase online). Digital Futures Project is a long term tracking study (6 years old) of a representative sample of Americans...

Source: Centre for the Digital Future, Center for the Digital Future

2007

Keywords: Digital, future, Internet, virtual community, web 2.0, blogs

Chris Paterson charts the rising importance of internet news alongside the declining number of sources for international news. His key finding is that whereas in 2001, 68% of news portal/aggregator te...

Source: Centre for Intl Communications Research, Centre for International Communications Research

May-06

Keywords: Online news, blogs, market dominance, news agency

Chris Paterson's paper looks at the concentration of corporate control over public affairs information in the context of emerging news distribution mechanisms. Arguing that the dominance of AP and Reu...

Source: Centre for Intl Communications Research, Centre for International Communications Research

Apr-03

Keywords: Online news, blogs, market dominance, news agency, politics

Snapshot of the current state of political blogging in the UK (early 2004). Focuses on 8 'types' of political blog (the MPs blog, the candidates blog etc.). Most said the purpose of blogging was to pr...

Source: Hansard, Hansard Society

Jul-04

Keywords: blogs, Internet, online news, democracy, politics,

Five essays assessing the impact of the web on the 2005 UK election. Contributions include: Stephen Coleman on the need to use the internet for dialogue, not broadcast; Lusoll and Ward on who was onli...

Source: Hansard, Hansard Society

Jul-05

Keywords: Internet, government spin, PR, democracy, blogs, technology

5,000 face to face interviews conducted across Europe in September 2006, exploring the European blogging experience. Finds that about 60% of Europeans (70 million people) have heard about blogs, and a...

Source: Ipsos-MORI, Ipsos MORI

Nov-06

Keywords: blogs, Internet, democracy, politics, trust, UGC

Executive summary of the PEJ's influential State of the News Media annual report. 2006 findings include: seismic transformation in what and how people learn about the world around them, power moving a...

Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism, Project for Excellence in Journalism

Jun-05

Keywords: Press, Internet, blogs, network TV, public views, radio, ethnic minorities, news investment,

An evaluation of how effectively the 100 most circulated US newspapers are using the internet. Study found that 76% of US newspapers offered RSS feeds and 80% had reporter blogs. However, only 19% all...

Source: Bivings, The Bivings Group

Aug-06

Keywords: Internet, newspapers, online news, America, blogs, RSS feeds