News Blogs Are Becoming the New Online Newspapers
pBack in December 2007, I observed that “a href=”http://searchenginewatch.com/3627926″Blogs Are the New Trade Press/a.” Today, it appears that news blogs are becoming the new online newspapers, too./p
pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”newspapaers_lrg.jpg” src=”http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/newspapaers_lrg.jpg” width=”300″ height=”287″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” align=left hspace=10//span According to “a href=”http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.com/2009/index.htm”The State of the News Media 2009/a,” an annual report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, “nearly one out of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 is now gone, and 2009 may be the worst year yet.”/p
pIt adds, “Perhaps least noticed yet most important, the audience migration to the Internet is now accelerating. The number of Americans who regularly go online for news, by one survey, jumped 19% in the last two years; in 2008 alone traffic to the top 50 news sites rose 27%.”/p
pIn other words, people are still looking for news, “But audiences now consume news in new ways. They hunt and gather what they want when they want it, use search to comb among destinations and share what they find through a growing network of social media,” reported the Project for Excellence in Journalism./p
pA Pew Research Center Survey in December 2008, found the number of Americans who said they got “most of their national and international news” online increased 67% in the last four years. The presidential election was almost certainly a key factor in the growth. More than a third of Americans said they got most of their campaign news from the Internet in […]
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