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Media Watch

June 2, 2017 By Glynn Young

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A few recent articles about what’s happening with the news media, readers, viewers, listeners, and bots.

What People Really Want in a News Organization – Sally Lehrman at The Atlantic.

The Trust Project, a collaboration of news organizations around the world, has discovered (!) something interesting about what readers want from news: “Thoughtful online readers who genuinely want to be informed about their own communities and the world.  Skeptical citizens who work very hard to gather a more complete, nuanced picture of issues and events than they believe news organizations typically provide.”

Despite subscription surges for largest U.S. newspapers, circulation and revenue fall for industry overall – Michael Barthel at the Pew Research Center.

              Quick Look Fact Sheet.

The big US dailies – like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal – have registered big gains in digital subscriptions. But for the industry overall, both circulation and ad revenue continues to decline.

Digital Enthusiasts and Informed Skeptics – Mark Bauerlein at First Things Magazine.

What’s better for learning – louts of video and digital resources, to training in speech and taking notes by hand?

Internet traffic from bots exceeded human-generated traffic in 2016 – April Glaser at Recode. 

That’s a lot of bots!

Photograph by Charlotte Ljones via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Filed Under: Blog, Communication News Tagged With: bots, circulation, learning, Media Watch, trust, video

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