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A new report commissioned by the FCC discovered a “surprisingly small audience for local news traffic.” How small? Less than one in five news pageviews goes to local news sources — that’s a combination of newspaper sites, local TV sites and large independent news sites in a given market — and the average user spends just 0.45% of total internet time consuming local news.
"Local news outlets get less than one half of one percent of all pageviews in a typical market, according to a new report (pdf) called "Less of the Same: The Lack of Local News on the Internet.""
To shed more light on Web news behavior, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism has conducted an in-depth study of detailed audience statistics from the Nielsen Company. The study examines the top 25 news websites in popularity in the United States, delving deeply into four main areas of audience behavior: how users get to the top news sites; how long they stay during each visit; how deep they go into a site; and where they go when they leave.
Overall, the findings suggest that there is not one group of news consumers online but several, each of which behaves differently. These differences call for news organizations to develop separate strategies to serve and make money from each audience.
"And that is the source of my disappointment. All this talk about a digital future, about moving journalism onto the web, about innovation and saving journalism is just talk until developers are allowed to hack at the very core of the whole product. To argue otherwise is to argue that the story form, largely unchanged from print, is perfect and to change it is unnecessary. Hogwash."
"For a private individual using Twitter, it might make sense to delete a message that you later discovered was in error. But for anyone tweeting as part of a professional media job, representing a news organization on Twitter, or using Twitter to do journalism independently, the course here ought to be plain: It’s almost always better to correct than to unpublish. Removing information you’ve already disseminated — sometimes called “scrubbing” — always leaves open the possibility that you’re trying to hide the error or pretend it never happened."
"We used a wide variety of sources from around the Web to put this post together. You can find the full list of source references at the bottom of the post if you’re interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get you even more numbers to chew on." - via Doug Fisher.
"The father of a former Cal football player is suing The Daily Californian's editor in chief and president Rajesh Srinivasan in a Fresno County small claims court, charging him with intentional infliction of emotional distress related to one article and two blog posts from 2006 and 2007 that remain in the newspaper's online archives. "
"So we ask: is deleting a tweet after the fact a lack of transparency, especially if any subsequent tweets don’t admit the error? Is a news organization obliged to tweet that it was wrong? Does the retweet function make such actions moot? We strongly believe in transparency, as do many of you. But whether deleting tweets is a responsibility or not, and whether a news organization must tweet that it was wrong, should lead to serious discussions in all newsrooms."
Iowa State's Michael Bugeja with a "Get off my lawn" rant worth reading. Don't necessarily agree with everything he's saying, but worth checking out.
"Welcome! to the News Frontier Database ... a searchable, living, and ongoing documentation of digital news outlets across the country. Featuring originally reported profiles and extensive data sets on each outlet, the NFDB is a tool for those who study or pursue online journalism, a window into that world for the uninitiated, and, like any journalistic product, a means by which to shed light on an important topic. We plan to build the NFDB into the most comprehensive resource of its kind."
Is it journalism if it doesn't have reporters? An AOL News veteran makes the argument.
A must-read for understanding the people who will be reading the media in the next century.
A list of things new media execs are demanding of aspiring digital journalists. Are you training for these attributes?
Joan Connell discusses the State of the News report and also a UK government report that maps the future of the BBC. The post contains a pdf link to the BBC report as well. Some inspiration as you navigate the future.
The giant information archivist announces plans to provide a compendium of weblog content to subscribers. And they are talking about paying bloggers.
An up-to-date list of local citizen-media initiatives around the U.S. Quite a surprisingly long list.
UT-Austin hosts the seventh annual event, with record attendance. A variety of content for every taste.
Joint endeavor to keep people in the newspaper mix.
Washingtonpost.com and chicagocrime.org web hotshot Adrian Holovaty points out resources to become a web wizard.
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