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March 16, 2004
State of the News
"Journalism is in the midst of an epochal transformation, as momentous probably as the invention of the telegraph or television", according to the recently released report, The State of the News Media 2004: An Annual Report on American Journalism. The report surveys newspapers, online news sites, network and cable TV, magazines, radio and the ethnic press in order to understand the changes. It identifies 8 major trends:- A growing number of news outlets are chasing relatively static or even shrinking audiences for news.
- Much of the new investment in journalism today - much of the information revolution generally - is in disseminating the news, not in collecting it.
- In many parts of the news media, we are increasingly getting the raw elements of news as the end product.
- Journalistic standards now vary even inside a single news organization.
- Without investing in building new audiences, the long-term outlook for many traditional news outlets seems problematic.
- Convergence seems more inevitable and potentially less threatening to journalists than it may have seemed a few years ago.
- The biggest question may not be technological but economic.
- Those who would manipulate the press and public appear to be gaining leverage over the journalists who cover them.
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