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PND News - Bloggers Often Follow Lead of Politicians, Journalists, Report Finds

Research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that while political bloggers can have an impact on the coverage of political stories, they often follow the lead of politicians and journalists.

To download the complete report (33 pages, PDF), visit: http://www.pewtrusts.org/pdf/PIP_Blogs_051605.pdf.

“Innovative Study Suggests Where Blogs Fit Into National Politics.” Pew Internet & American Life Project Press Release 5/24/05.

Posted for Tom Regan of the Online News Association . .

The Online News Association 2005 Conference and Online Journalism Awards
October 28-29
The New York Hilton
New York City

The Online News Association is pleased to announce that Arthur Sulzberger,
Jr., chairman of The New York Times Co., will deliver one of this year's
keynote addresses at the 2005 Online News Association Conference. As the
Times Co.'s senior executive, he is responsible for its long-term business
strategy. Over the past decade, Sulzberger has shaped and implemented
innovative print, broadcast and online initiatives that are enabling the
Company to compete in the 21st century global media marketplace.

And this year's conference will feature panel discussions designed to
provide media leaders and online journalists with insights into key issues
in the medium, along with how-to ideas about stories and projects that
they can take back to their newsrooms. Discussions will focus on practical
tips and best practices on topics such as increasing interactivity, the
role of participatory journalism, growing audience, best uses of video and
creating more original Web reporting.

There will be more information coming in the next few weeks as we solidify
speakers and actual sessions.

You can learn more about the conference at http://www.journalists.org, our
website.

The Online News Association 2005 Conference and Online Journalism Awards
October 28-29
The New York Hilton
New York City

Tom Regan
Executive Director
Online News Association
Phone: 617-698-5252
Fax : 617-698-5252
Email: HelpDesk@journalists.org
http://www.journalists.org

* The Online News Association has launched a new Students & Educators
subcommittee of the Membership Services committee to help develop new ways
for ONA to better serve students and educators. Some of the possible ideas
being discussed are internships, a mentoring program, listserv
discussions, regional events and sharing online news research. More on the
new committee here: http://journalist.org/news/archives/000247.php

* Editor and Publisher reported May 10th, 2005 that "Newspaper circulation
is trending down, but a new study released today by the Newspaper
Association of America shows a 3.1% increase in the number of people who
read newspapers online." You can read more about this new study here:
http://journalist.org/news/archives/000240.php

* Earlier in May, about 300 bloggers gathered in Tennessee at
BlogNashville, which was sponsored by the newly formed Media Bloggers
Association. More information on the conference, and a link to a story
from Mark Glaser of the Online Journalism Review here:
http://journalist.org/news/archives/000241.php

* Just in case you haven't heard, Rupert Murdock, Chairman and CEO of News
Corporation, recently gave a speech to the American Society of Newspaper
Editors, where he told newspaper editors to, as FinFacts of Ireland put
it, "grab on to the digital revolution, stop fearing or ignoring the power
of the Web, and do more to focus on young news consumers -- or "digital
natives," as he called them -- who are increasingly going to the Internet
for information." Another shock wave for the online industry. You can read
more about Mr. Murdoch's speech here:
http://journalist.org/news/archives/000226.php

* Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project,
dropped a line earlier this week to say that his site has some updated
statistics on "who has created blogs and who is reading them." You can
find the new material at
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/p/1083/pipcomments.asp

* On April 5th, Reuters convened a panel of experts at its Times Square
headquarters to discuss the impact of blogs in journalism and the media.
The result was a fascinating discussion about the role that blogs are
increasingly playing in covering the news. Here's more information on the
story, and a link to a video recording of the discussion so you can watch
it yourself. http://journalist.org/news/archives/000221.php

* The Pew Internet and American Life Project reports that more than 22
million American adults own iPods or MP3 players and 29 percent of them
have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio
files at a time of their choosing. Several ONA members are experimenting
with podcasting on their own sites. Here's more information:
http://journalist.org/news/archives/cat_news.php

* Online journalism pioneer and OJA judge Merrill Brown provides some
provocative answers to the question "What's the future of the news
business?" in this report to the Carnegie Corporation of New York. You
might not agree with everything Merrill has to say, but this is a piece
well worth reading. Here's more information on the article:
http://journalist.org/news/archives/cat_news.php

* Reporters Without Borders is calling on Internet-users to vote online
for award-winners from among 60 blogs defending freedom of expression.
More on this story at: http://journalist.org/news/archives/000207.php

* Mark Glaser of the Online Journalism Review offers an iside look at
Yahoo!News, including a peek at their redesign. More on the story here:
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050331glaser/

* We've got some great offerings for Good Works this week. Steve
Yelvington talks about the exciting new citizen journalism project at
BlufftonToday.com - this is really worth checking out
http://journalist.org/news/archives/000209.php

Ken Sands, via the Media Center's morph blog, talks about some of the new
changes that the Spokane Spokesman-Review is intiating
http://journalist.org/news/archives/000210.php

Tom Regan
Online News Association
Phone: 617-698-5252
Fax : 617-698-5252
Email: HelpDesk@journalists.org
http://www.journalists.org

Subject: 5 Leading Institutions Start Journalism Education Effort - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/26/business/media/26journalism.html

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
The New York Times
Published: May 26, 2005

The leaders of five of the nation's most prominent journalism programs are joining in a three-year, $6 million effort to try to elevate the standing of journalism in academia and find ways to prepare journalists better.

The unusual collaboration, which has been developing for three years, involves Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University; Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley; Loren Ghiglione, dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University; Geoffrey Cowan, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California; and Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Their goal is to revitalize journalism education by jointly undertaking national investigative reporting projects, integrating their journalism programs more deeply with other disciplines at their universities and providing a national platform to try to influence the discourse on media-related issues.

"Journalism as a whole is clearly in something of a crisis," Mr. Schell said. As journalistic scandals crop up with more frequency, surveys show trust in the news media eroding, newspaper circulation declining and young people disengaged from newspapers and television news.

"Those of us who run journalism schools are confronted with the prospect of ever fewer distinguished media outlets - especially in broadcast - to which we can aspire to send our students to work," Mr. Schell added. "So this is a time not only to try and make journalism schools as relevant as possible to the evolving profession, but also to have universities begin to weigh in on the debate about what happens in the media."

The effort is being supported by grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation, and Hodding Carter III, president of the Knight Foundation, are to announce the initiative today in New York, with Carnegie pledging $2.4 million for the first two years and Knight pledging $1.7 million for the first two years.

Mr. Gregorian said the presidents of all five universities had pledged to support the initiative both institutionally and financially for its third year, assuming it met certain benchmarks of success in the first two years.

"This is not just another grant," Mr. Gregorian said. "It is a vision for what journalism schools can become when they are clearly part of a university president's priorities." He said journalism schools were doing their best, "but their best is not good enough in this complex day and age."

The money wil l be used for three main purposes: to develop national investigative reporting projects that would hire the best students and be written or broadcast in collaboration with major news organizations; to create a media policy task force at the Shorenstein Center to conduct research and coordinate the views and voices of the deans and university presidents in debates over media issues; and to develop more innovative curriculums by pairing journalists with scientists, historians, economists and other scholars on their campuses.

To get the national reporting project off the ground, an "incubator" program has been set up for this summer at ABC News, where 10 students, two from each of the schools, will help produce a program about the Sept. 11 attacks.

In subsequent years, the "incubator" program, to be called "News 21" for the 21st century and the perspective of people under 21, will be based at each campus. A national manager will coordinate the student reporting and work with national news outlets to get the projects on the air, in print or online.

While journalists have long debated the value of journalism schools, Mr. Schell, who did not attend journalism school, said he now thought such institutions were more vital than they might have been in the past.

"Things have changed substantially since we came up the journalistic food chain," he said. "As news cycles have gotten faster and more bottom-line driven, there has been less inclination and capacity in media outlets to train, mentor and guide upcoming generations."

Mr. Carter said more people were becoming journalists by way of journalism school than "through any other portal." But journalism programs are insufficient, he said, in preparing students for the real world.

"Virtually everything in journalism is, at the moment, insufficient and in a state of flux," he said. "Basic principles do not change, but the environment in which they must be applied is changing radically. So should the education of those who must work within that environment."

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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Today's News

Thursday, May 26, 2005

5 Universities Will Announce a Broad Plan
to Overhaul Journalism Education

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN
Copyright © 2005 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

At a time when journalism has been rocked by scandals and is reeling from
the competitive pressures of round-the-clock news coverage, five major
research universities and two national foundations are scheduled to unveil
today a plan to revitalize journalism education.

Under the plan, which will be announced at a news conference this morning,
journalism schools will be more fully integrated into their universities. In
so doing, the participants say, students will get more specialized expertise
in the complex subjects they will cover, and a stronger grounding in ethics.

Students will also gain more hands-on experience through internships with
news organizations and on-campus "incubators" under the initiative, which is
to be led by the journalism schools at Columbia University, Northwestern
University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of
Southern California. Also participating is the Joan Shorenstein Center on
the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F.
Kennedy School of Government.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has pledged $2.4-million for the first
two years of the project, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has
committed $1.7-million. The presidents of the five universities have agreed
to support the program in the third year.

"Journalism is too important to this nation and our democracy to have the
schools that educate its future leaders be anything but central to the
universities in which they reside," Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie
Corporation, said in a written statement.

Copyright © 2005 by The Chronicle of Higher Education

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FULL ARTICLE LINK: The UK Association of Online Publishers


Summary from Poynter online:

A survey by the UK Online Publishers Association (AOP) shows that 63 percent of its members -- all creators of original, quality, branded content -- now charge for content online, compared with 58 percent in 2004. This is despite the fact that the largest source of revenue for the online publishers' grouping is still display advertising -- supplying 47 percent of all revenue, with more than half (58 percent) of AOP members now generating over £1 million annually in advertising.

Members of the AOP include the BBC Online, Guardian Unlimited, The Economist group, and FT.com. According to the survey, paid-for content now accounts for 19 percent of overall revenue for AOP members.

The findings also reveal a decline in one-off (micro) payments, and an increase in subscription models. The survey, which was conducted for the AOP by an independent group, also shows that there is greater optimism and less mention of constraints within the industry than were evident in 2004, with most publishers indicating that overall revenues are set to increase.

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