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
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:
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.
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
American Press Institute Des “Data Journalism Awards” pour promouvoir l’avenir du journalisme « Horizons Médiatiques – Edition Europe Les journalistes et les médias utilisent de plus en plus les ressources data pour améliorer leurs reportages et donner aux lecteurs la possibilité d’interagir avec l’information. Du Guardian à La Stampa en passant par Die Zeit, les médias d’informations européens expérimentent de nouvelles sources et donnent la part belle au data journalisme. C’est dans ce contexte que l’European Journalism Centre basé à Maastricht s’est associé à Google et Global Editors Network (GEN), pour organiser les premiers Data Journalism Awards qui se conclueront le 31 mai 2012 par une cérémonie des récompenses à Paris. Un moyen de mettre en lumière cette nouvelle technique journalistique. Le data journalism a vu sa reconnaissance en constante augmentation dans les médias ces dernières années, mais les évènements à venir marquent probablement une nouvelle étape dans son essor. Paul Steiger devrait montrer plus d'enthousiasme le 31 mai 2012, lors de la cérémonie des Data Journalism Awards à Paris. Like this:
Freedom of information: my monstrous idea will keep corporate tyrants at bay | George Monbiot Modern government could be interpreted as a device for projecting corporate power. Since the 1980s, in Britain, the US and other nations, the primary mission of governments has been to grant their sponsors in the private sector ever greater access to public money and public life. There are several means by which they do so: the privatisation and outsourcing of public services; the stuffing of public committees with corporate executives; and the reshaping of laws and regulations to favour big business. In the UK, the Health and Social Care Act extends the corporate domain in ways unimaginable even five years ago. With these increasing powers come diminishing obligations. In this column I will make a proposal that sounds – at first – monstrous, but I hope to persuade you is both reasonable and necessary: that freedom of information laws should be extended to the private sector. The very idea of a corporation is made possible only by a blurring of the distinction between private and public.