by jpitney | Oct 31, 2024 | Journalism, Newspapers
Howard French at Foreign Policy: Since Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, blocked the publication’s endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, more than 250,000 people have canceled their subscriptions. In the wake of Bezos’s...
by jpitney | Oct 24, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Newspapers
From the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University: The number of local news deserts expanded in the U.S. this year, with 127 newspapers shuttering, leaving nearly 55 million Americans with limited to no access to local news, according to the Medill State...
by jpitney | Oct 17, 2024 | Journalism, Social Media, Uncategorized, Youth
Kirsten Eddy at Pew Across most age groups, Americans remain far less likely to trust information from social media sites than from national and local news organizations. But the youngest adults are an exception. Adults under 30 are now nearly as likely to have a lot...
by jpitney | Oct 16, 2024 | Iraq, Journalism, Journalists
Clark Bentson at ABC News: A memorial to fallen journalists killed during the war to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq was inaugurated in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah. The Garden of Truth, as the memorial is called, was opened last month by Qubad...
by jpitney | Oct 15, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Public Opinion
Megan Brenan at Gallup: Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly,” similar to last year’s 32%. Americans’ trust in...
by jpitney | Oct 13, 2024 | Elections, Journalism, Journalists, Public Opinion
From Pew: About a third of U.S. adults say television is the most common way they get political and election news (35%), while roughly one-in-five each most commonly get it from news websites or apps (21%) or social media (20%). Smaller shares turn primarily to...
