Posts Tagged USA

Journalism in the Bermuda Triangle

Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Newsroom Management on February 26, 2009

Tagesspiegel, February 15, 2009

Rapidly declining advertising, downsized editorial departments, readers scampering to the Internet – the U.S. press is trapped in a downward spiral.

Two years ago David Carr, a prominent media journalist for the New York Times, speculated about how future historians might evaluate today’s world.  Carr’s hunch?  “There is a chance that historians will examine this period in American history and wonder if journalism left the field.”   Michael Hirchorn recently responded to Carr in the Atlantic Monthly, stating that even an iconic newspaper like the Times might wind up broke in the next year.

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U.S. Media Endorse Obama

Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Fields of Coverage on November 3, 2008

St. Galler Tagblatt, October 31, 2008
An academic analysis shows that in the published opinion of the U.S. media, Democrat Barack Obama is already the winner of the presidential election.

If it were up to the media, Obama would have already won the election by a mile. This is the impression you get from reading the latest analysis of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, which followed the election process marathon.

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Major Topics the U.S. Media Chooses to Ignore

Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Ethics & Quality on October 6, 2008

Ethical Space, Vol. , No.3, 2008
A unique university project highlights each year the stories the US coporate media miss.
The project might be overshadowed by the Pulitzer Prizes, which are bestowed every year in April – but in terms of media policy it may well be the more important event: once a year, Project Censored, organised by the Sonoma State University in California, chooses 25 ‘stories’ which, according to its jury, have substantial news value but which nevertheless remain ignored by the large US newspapers and TV networks.

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Newspaper Deathwatch

Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Media Economics on July 4, 2008

Schweizer Journalist, 6+7, 2008
Among the dozens, probably hundreds of US blogs focused on journalism and the media, one distinguishes itself with a rather macabre title: newspaperdeathwatch.com. U.S. media critics are engaged in  end-of-life care for the daily newspaper. The funny thing is that the most remarkable contributions to the current debate on the future of the newspaper industry continue to appear in the old-fashioned print media and not, or certainly not exclusively, on the Internet.

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