Overview By Amy Mitchell and Tom Rosenstiel of PEJ In 2011, the digital revolution entered a new era. The age of mobile, in which people are connected to the web wherever they are, arrived in earnest. More than four in ten American adults now own a smartphone. For news, the new era brings mixed blessings. New research released in this report finds that mobile devices are adding to people’s news consumption, strengthening the lure of traditional news brands and providing a boost to long-form journalism. At the same time, a more fundamental challenge that we identified in this report last year has intensified — the extent to which technology intermediaries now control the future of news. Two trends in the last year overlap and reinforce the sense that the gap between the news and technology industries is widening. Second, in the last year a small number of technology giants began rapidly moving to consolidate their power by becoming makers of “everything” in our digital lives. Footnotes
Transnets - Blog LeMonde.fr eCicero Meta-media | La révolution de l'information The Search for a New Business Model A new study, which combines detailed proprietary data from individual newspapers with in-depth interviews at more than a dozen major media companies, finds that the search for a new revenue model to revive the newspaper industry is making only halting progress but that some individual newspapers are faring much better than the industry overall and may provide signs of a path forward. In general, the shift to replace losses in print ad revenue with new digital revenue is taking longer and proving more difficult than executives want and at the current rate most newspapers continue to contract with alarming speed, according to the study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. Cultural inertia is a major factor. But some papers are performing quite differently than the norm, some much better and some far worse. The vast majority of papers in the United States are small, something that is reflected in our sample. Among the key findings in this report:
Vendredi Aristegui Noticias - Desde cualquier medio, periodismo en libertad TheMediaBriefing.com The Influence of Brand Most app users still rely on less than five different news sources or apps on the tablets. So how do these power users chose which apps to download and perhaps pay for? What is the driving factor? The two most important factors are whether the app is offered by a trusted brand and low cost-much more so than recommendations from friends or positive reviews. This bodes well for news organization with strong well-established brands, but it does not mean that brand equity will necessarily translate into revenue. The vast majority of tablet news users, 84%, say the fact that the app came from a news organization they liked is a major factor in their decision to download it. Age also makes a difference. News Organizations Have Strong Direct Traffic both Through Apps and Browsers For long-form reading, 46% of browser users went directly to news websites all or most of the time and another 36% went directly sometimes.
Journalistiques clasificación Mundial 2011-2012 África En África se amplió la distancia entre los buenos y los malos alumnos Los países que reprimieron las protestas populares vivieron caídas vertiginosas Si bien las primaveras árabes de 2011 no desbordaron el África subsahariana hasta el punto de hacer caer a los gobiernos, algunos regímenes enfrentaron fuertes reivindicaciones políticas y sociales. Este fue el caso de Angola (132º lugar), donde algunos periodistas fueron detenidos durante las manifestaciones en septiembre. Los países más cerrados y autoritarios, en la cola de la clasificación Por el control de los medios de comunicación y de la libertad de expresión en general que ejercen las autoridades, Reporteros sin Fronteras considera que la situación es “muy grave” en Ruanda (156º) y en Guinea Ecuatorial (161º). El hecho de que Costa de Marfil (159º lugar, ex aequo que Yibuti) se encuentre dentro de este grupo puede ser engañoso. Crece el grupo de los buenos alumnos Un progreso espectacular e incursiones notables En medio