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State of the news media 2004
The Project for Excellent in Journalism has identified these major trends in the field in its State of the Media 2004 report:
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.
Without investing in building new audiences, the long-term outlook for many traditional news outlets seems problematic.
Journalistic standards now vary even inside a single news organization .
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.
The entire report is availabe should be given great attention by those who are interested in the field of journalism.
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