THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. This is a modified and extended version of a plenary address given to the Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff School of Journalism, in 2009. 2. See, for example, US News and World Report, 29 September 1975; Washington Post, 5 June 1978. 3. Reported in the Boston Globe, 7 November 1993. 4. For example, British media companies made this argument to the Office of Fair Trading (2009), only for it to be rejected. 5. See, for instance, Preston (2009 Preston , Peter 2009 “Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 1: recession didn't stop the press” , Observer , 27 December . [Google Scholar]), among many others. 6. Information supplied by the Newspaper Society. 7. One of a series of wonderful Rowson covers, it was commissioned by Routledge for the cover of Curran and Seaton (2010). 8. A substantial number of articles in “The Future of Journalism” special issue of Journalism, 10(3), 2009 veer towards the position, prompting me to label it the “liberal educator” approach. 9. See the reports of the Internet Advertising Bureau (United States) and (United Kingdom), IREP (France), and Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada, among others. 10. The Pew figure for the United States is higher partly because respondents are able to cite more than one primary news source in its survey. 11. Nielsen NetRatings Website Ranking, January 2009. My thanks to David Cowling (BBC) for supplying this information. 12. “Reach and percentage growth for UK News websites” (table derived from Nielsen, September 2008), BBC News Online: 2008's highlights. My thanks again to David Cowling. 13. This matters because most Internet users in Europe and the United States do not go beyond the first page (Jansen and Spink, 2005 Jansen , Bernard and Spink , Amanda 2005 “An Analysis of Web Searching by European AlltheWeb.com users” , Information Processing Management 41 2 , pp. 361 91 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2006 Jansen , Bernard and Spink , Amanda 2006 “How Are We Searching the World Wide Web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs” , Information Processing Management 42 1 , pp. 248 63 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). 14. See Note 11. 15. Information derived from Ina Zwerger at the Osterreichischer Rundfunk.