By Matthew Fleischer on Jul 29, 2010
Media Bistro
A new survey from USC Annenberg School of Journalism’s Center for the Digital Future reveals that only 56 percent of Internet users considered newspapers a valuable source of information. That number is down four percent since 2008. Asked what they would do if their home newspaper folded and [...]

By: Mark Fitzgerald
Published: [...]

The Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a national non-profit journalism organization, released the following statement regarding the passing of veteran journalist Daniel Schorr.  Schorr’s six decade career touched every aspect of journalism.  He began in print, then spent 23 years in television at CBS News and was most recently at NPR.
“Daniel Schorr was [...]

Douglas Belkin didn’t follow orders while covering Rod Blagojevich trial, authorities say.
Updated 10:30 AM CDT, Thu, Jul 22, 2010
NBC Chicago
A Wall Street Journal spokeswoman said the newspaper will fight the charges lobbed against one of their reporters following his arrest Wednesday.
The reporter, Douglas Belkin, was waiting in a designated reporters’ area in the Dirksen Federal [...]

By Myra Adams

Is anyone honestly surprised by the revelations that members of the liberal left media plotted to kill stories about Reverend Jeremiah Wright during the 2008 presidential campaign?
For the now-defunct Journolist, a once powerful listserv, its members’ greatest fear was if Obama’s pastor story ran unchecked by them, re-plays of Reverend Wright’s sermons would [...]

By JEREMY W. PETERS
New York Times
ARLINGTON, Va. — In most newsrooms, the joke would have been obvious.
It was April Fools’ Day last year, and Politico’s top two editors sent an e-mail message to their staff advising of a new 5 a.m. start time for all reporters.
“These pre-sunrise hours are often the best [...]

By Derek Thompson
The Atlantic

Newspapers (that is: news, on paper) might not be essential for democracy, but some form of journalism certainly is. And journalism, as you might have heard, is struggling. Gone are the lucrative classifieds. Stripped are the ad-laden car and real estate sections that helped to cross-subsidize the expensive work of reporting war [...]

By Jason Stverak

When your cell phone breaks or your computer crashes you no longer expect to speak to a call center in the United States. Numerous companies have outsourced parts of their business operations to contractors in other countries in an effort to improve their bottom line and increase productivity. Regardless of the public perception [...]

Thursday, July 08, 2010
Rasmussen Reports
Most Americans report their state currently has a budget crisis, and they continue to blame politicians more than taxpayers for the problem.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Adults shows 75% say the unwillingness of politicians to reduce government spending is more to blame for current state budget crises than [...]

Carole Wurzelbacher on July 7, 2010
Editors Web Blog

A recent poll of journalists at the annual Oriella digital journalism study found that journalists are not quite as pessimistic as last year, reports the Guardian. The poll, which interviewed 770 journalists in 15 countries, including the US, Brazil, and several European countries, reported [...]