State of the Media 2009

From UW-Madison student Sisi Chen:

Organized by the Pew Project For Excellence In Journalism, the annual State Of The News Media is out.

The report analyzes and organizes all of the major journalism trends for the past year. One of the report's general overviews says that 2008 saw a major change in mainstream media's news agendas. What we typically think of as hard news received less and less coverage. Two examples the report gives is how the press was late in picking up on the economic collapse and how coverage of the Iraq war all but disappeared. The report also analyzes trends in specific industries like online reporting, local TV, audio and magazines. I also really like the special reports section. This part deals with emerging trends, like citizen-based media, and feature links to specific news outlets/ site that have garnered a lot of attention.