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How Teenagers Consume Media - Morgan Stanley Research (via Financial Times), July 10, 2009, 8p

Interview: Forecasting the Future - Frons, Marc - American Journalism Review (AJR), June/July 2009, online edition

Cities Without Newspapers - Smolkin, Rachel - American Journalism Review, June/July 2009, online edition

The Twitter Explosion - Farhi, Paul - American Journalism Review, June/July 2009, online edition

Media as Global Diplomat - Himelfarb, Sheldon et. al. - United States Institute of Peace (USIP) , June 2009, 12p

The Future of the News Industry (Video) Panelists: The Honorable Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD); Isaacson, Walter; Kinsley, Michael; West, Darrell M. Introduction: Talbott, Strobe (Brookings President) - Brookings Institution, May 18, 2009

The Future of Journalism - Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, May 6, 2009

Statehouse Exodus - Dorroh, Jennifer - American Journalism Review, April/May 2009, pp20-35

AJR's 2009 Count of Statehouse Reporters - American Journalism Review, April/May 2009,online edition

State of the Media 2009
- Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, March 2009

The Future Is Cheese - Michael Hirschorn - Atlantic Monthly, March 2009, v303, #2, pp39-41

Share and Share Alike - Ricchiardi, Sherry - American Journalism Review, February/March 2009, pp18-35

The New Washington Press Corps - A Special Report - Pew Research Center, Project for Excellence in Journalism, February 11, 2009, 28p, (PDF)

Networking News - Emmett, Arielle - American Journalism Review, December/January 2009

Out of Focus – Out of Sync – Take 4: A Report on the Television Industry - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, December 2008, 46p (PDF)

The “New” Tube: A Content Analysis of YouTube – the Most Popular Online Video Destination - Parents Television Council, Special Report, December 17, 2008

Handheld Headlines - Emmett, Arielle - American Journalism Review, August/September 2008, pp24-29

Cable’s Clout - Farhi, Paul - American Journalism Review, August/September 2008, pp18-23

Internet Accuracy: Is information on the Web Reliable? Clemmitt, Marcia - CQ Researcher, August 1, 2008, v18, #27, pp625-648

Speed Matters 2008: A Report on Internet Speeds in All 50 States - Communication Workers of America, August 2008, 65p

Flickring Out - Quart, Alissa - Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 2008

Is Google Making Us Stupid - Carr, Nicholas - Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008, v302, #1, pp56-63

Mr. Murdoch Goes to War - Bowden, Mark - The Atlantic Monthly, July/August 2008, pp106-114

The Changing Newsroom - Pew Research Center Project's for Excellence in Journalism, July 21, 2008

2008 Women and Minorities Survey: The Face of the Workforce - Radio-Television News Directors Association, July 21, 2008

Promoting Film and Media to Enhance State Economic Development - National Governors Association, Issue Brief, July 15, 2008, 30P

The Colbert Bump in Campaign Donations: More Truthful than Truthy
Fowler, James H. - PS: Political Science & Politics, July 2008, 8p

Transition in Trouble: Action Needed to Ensure a Successful Digital Television Transition - Digital Television Transition Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, July 2008, 39p

The Public and Broadcasting: How to Get the Most Service from Your Local Station - Media Bureau, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Revised July 2008, 32p

Whatever Happened to Iraq?  Ricchiardi, Sherry - American Journalism Review (AJR), June/July 2008, pp20-27

Murky Boundaries - Rector, Kevin - American Journalism Review (AJR), June/July 2008

Media Metrics: The True State of the Modern Media Marketplace - Thierer, Adam; Eskelsen, Grant - Progress & Freedom Foundation Special Report, Summer 2008, 99p

Writers Strike 2007-2008: The Economic Impact of Digital Distribution - Klowden, Kevin; Chatterjee, Anusuya; DeVol, Ross - Milken Institute, June 2008

Conversion from Analog to Digital TV - U.S. Census Bureau, Facts for Features Special Edition, May 29, 2008

Freedom of the Press Survey 2008 - Freedom House, Released April 29, 2008

National Annenberg Election Survey 2008 - University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Released March 28, 2008, 8p

Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment - Cohen, Henry - Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report, Updated March 17, 2008, 44p

Dusting off the Archive for the Web
- Pérez-Peña, Richard - New York Times, Web-published March 17, 2008

Media Ownership: Economic Factors Influence the Number of Media Outlets in Local Markets, While Ownership by Minorities and Women Appears Limited and Is Difficult to Assess
Government Accountability Office Report, GAO-08-383, March 2008, 69p


21st Century Muckrakers
- Nieman Reports, Spring 2008, v62, #1

Wikipedia in the
Newsroom - Shaw, Donna - American Journalism Review, February-March 2008, pp40-45


The Search Party: Google Squares Off With Its Capitol Hill Critics
- Auletta, Ken- The New Yorker, January 14, 2008, v83, #43, pp30-37

Citizen Media Law Project - Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Center for Citizen Media, January 2008

Highlights of the 2008 Digital Future Report - Center for the Digital Future, USC Annenberg School, January 2008, 10p

Wiring Journalism 2.0 - Brainard, Curtis - Columbia Journalism Review, January-February 2008

NSF and the Birth of the Internet - National Science Foundation, 2008

The Video Explosion - Layton, Charles - American Journalism Review, December/January 2008

Covering the World
- Ricchiardi, Sherry - American Journalism Review, December/January 2008, online edition

State of the News Media 2008 - Project for excellence in Journalism, 2008


The Limits of Clear Language
- Lemann, Nicholas - Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2007, online edition

The Rhetoric Beat
- Cunningham, Brent - Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2007, online edition

Journalists in Iraq - A Survey of Reporters on the Front Lines
Project for Excellence in Journalism/Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, November 28, 2007

FCC Chairman’s Big Media Giveaway Exposed - Aaron, Craig et.al.
Free Press, November 2007, online edition, 29p

Transforming the Architecture - Sessions Stepp, Carl - American Journalism Review, October/November 2007, online edition

Lying to Get the Truth - Lisheron, Mark - American Journalism Review, October/November 2007, online edition

The Invisible Primary — Invisible No Longer: A First Look at Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Campaign - Project for Excellence in Journalism/ Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, October 29, 2007

Unplugging Plug-and-Play Regulation - Thierer, Adam - The Progress & Freedom Foundation, Progress on Point Release 14.21, October 27, 2007, 7p

Lifelong Readers: Driving Civic Engagement - Newspaper Association of America Foundation, September 17, 2007, online edition, 20p

The Latest News Headlines – Your Vote Counts
- Project for Excellence in Journalism, September 12, 2007, online edition, 16p

Black and White and Re(a)d All Over: The Conservative Advantage in Syndicated Op-Ed Columns - Media Matters for America, September 2007, online edition, 29p

Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations - Views of Press Values and Performance: 1985-2007 - The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, August 9, 2007, online edition

Public Blames Media for Too Much Celebrity Coverage - The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, August 2, 2007, online edition

Love and Fear in the Time of Media Consolidation: A Survey of Asian American Journalists
- Asian American Journalists Association, August 2, 2007, online edition, 45p

Promises, Promises - Auletta, Ken - The New Yorker, July 2, 2007, v83, #18, pp43-51

Their Men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.'s Lobbyists for Hire
Silverstein, Ken - Harper's Magazine, July 2007, v315, #1886, pp53-63

Kind of Confidential - Robertson, Lori - American Journalism Review, June/July 2007, pp26-33

What the Mainstream Media Can Learn From Jon Stewart
- Smolkin, Rachel - American Journalism Review, June-July 2007, pp18-25

The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio: Joint Report - Center for American Progress and Free Press. June 21, 2007, online version, 40 p

Journalists in Exile: Special Report - Witchel, Elizabeth, Phillips, Karen - Committee to Protect Journalists, June 19, 2007, online edition

Drowned Out: Alcohol Industry "Responsibility" Advertising on Television, 2001-2005 - Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, Georgetown University, June 27, 2007, Online edition, 12p

Off the Dial: Female and Minority Radio Station Ownership in the United States
- Turner, S. Derek - Free Press, June 2007, Online edition, 76p

Five Years Later – Media Perceptions From 2002 to 2007
- Edison Media Research, June 26, 2007, Online edition, 7p

Why Change the Channel?
Network News is All the Same, Cable Networks More Distinct
- Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, June 20, 2007, online edition

TV Network News Top Source of News and Information Today - Harris Interactive Poll #52, June 11, 2007, online edition

Wikipedia and Beyond. Jimmy Wales' Sprawling Vision
- Mangu-Ward, Katherine - Reason, June 2007, Online edition

Left Behind: The Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media - Media Matters for America, May 2007, Online edition, 27p

Finding a Niche
- Smolkin, Rachel - American Journalism Review, April/May 2007, online edition

Scarborough Newspaper Audience Ratings Report 2007
- Scarborough Research, April 24, 2007, online edition, 17p

Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions: What Americans Know 1989-2007 - Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, April 15, 2007, Online edition

Beyond the Controversy: Q&A with Flemming Rose (Editor of the Danish newspaper that published the Mohammed cartoons) - Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2007, Online edition

The New Media Age: End of the Written Word? - Tucker, Patrick, et al. - Futurist, March-April 2007, v41, #2, pp. 23-30

Before Jon Stewart - Love, Robert - Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2007, online edition

Hispanic/Latino Market Profile - Magazine Publishers of America, March 2007, 24p


Crossing the Water’s Edge: Elite Rhetoric, Media Coverage and the Rally-Round-the-Flag Phenomenon, 1979-2003
- Baum, Matthew A. and Tim Groeling - Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Research Working Paper Series, March 2007, 50p

Olympic Trial
- McLaughlin, Kathleen E. - American Journalism Review, December 2006/January 2007, online edition

Blogging Between the Lines
- Hull, Dana - American Journalism Review, December2006/January 2007, online edition

Media Predictions - TMT Trends 2007 (Technology, Media & Telecommunications) - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group, 2007, 24p

National Cable & Telecommunications Association 2007 Industry Overview - National Cable & Telecommunications Association 2007, online edition, 13p

State of the News Media 2007 - Project for Excellence in Journalism ( Pew Research Center)

Privatization vs. The People’s Right to Know - Gupta, Rani - Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, 2007, online edition

Analyzing The Presence of Magazines on the Internet - The Bivings Group, November 19, 2006, 15p

Into the Abyss: Reporting Iraq 2003-2006: An Oral History
Columbia Journalism Review, November/December 2006, online edition

The Pulitzer Cartel - Shaw, Donna - American Journalism Review, October/November 2006, online edition

A Tale of Five Cities: Why the Newspaper-Broadcast Cross-Ownership Ban Should be Preserved - Common Cause, Released October 26, 2006, online edition, 7p

Media Industry Facing Biggest Upheaval Since Gutenberg - Heng, Stefan - Deutsche Bank Research, October 12, 2006, online edition, 12p

On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change
- Overholser, Geneva - The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, October 2006, online edition, 24p

What Happens When the Spots Come On: The Impact of Commercials on the Radio Audience
Presented by Arbitron, Media Monitors and Coleman, September 2006, online edition, 21p

Out of the Picture: Minority & Female TV Station Ownership in the United States - Turner, S. Derek, Cooper, Mark - Free Press, September 2006, online edition, 41p

File not Found
- Billington, James - The Atlantic Monthly, September 2006, v298, #2, pp142-145

The Hive
- Poe, Marshal - The Atlantic Monthly, September 2006, v298, #2, pp86-94

Hold That Obit
- Smolkin, Rachel - American Journalism Review, August/September 2006, online edition

Amateur Hour - Lemann, Nicholas - The New Yorker, August 7-14, 2006, v82, #24, pp44-49

Shakedown!
Love, Robert - Columbia Journalism Review, Jul/Aug2006, v45, # 2, pp21-27

The End of Ambiguity - McCollam, Douglas - Columbia Journalism Review, Jul/Aug2006, v45, # 2, pp20-27

Access to Broadband Networks
- Goldfarb, Charles B. - Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service. Updated June 29, 2006,30p

Freeedom of Speech and the Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment - Cohen, Henry - Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service. Updated June 2, 2006, 42p

Handbook for Independent Journalism
- U.S. State Department, International Information Programs (IIP) Posted July 2006

By the Numbers
- Shiver Jr., Jube - American Journalism Review, June/July 2006, v28, #3, pp32-37

Rocketboom! - Farhi, Paul - American Journalism Review, June/July 2006, v28, #3, pp38-43

Digital Television: An Overview - Kruger, Lennard G. - Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service. Updated May 5, 2006, 46p

Among the Audience: A Survey of New Media
- Kluth, Andreas - The Economist, April 20, 2006, online edition

Freedom of the Press Worldwide in 2006
- Reporters Without Borders, May 2006, online edition, 153p (pdf)

Freedom of the Press 2006: A Global Survey of Media Independence - Freedom House, Annual Report, Web-posted April 27, 2006, online edition, 190p

Coming to America - Ackerman, Spencer - New Republic, May 1, 2006, v234, #15, pp18-21

Center Stage - Stepp, Carl Sessions - American Journalism Review, April/May 2006 v28, #2

The Stringers - McLeary, Paul - Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2006, online edition

Online News
- Horrigan, John B. - Pew Internet and American Life Project Report, March 22, 2006,27p

Under Siege
- Paul Farhi - American Journalism Review, Feb/Mar 2006, v28 #1, pp26-31

International Intrigue
- Paterno, Susan - American Journalism Review, Feb/Mar 2006, v28 #1, pp50-55

Waivering - Smolkin, Rachel - American Journalism Review, February/March 2006

Cultivating Loneliness - Kaplan, Robert D. - Columbia Journalism Review, Jan/Feb 2006

Future of Newspapers - Jost, Kenneth - CQ Researcher, January 20, 2006, v16, #3, 24pName That Source - Toobin, Jeffrey - New Yorker, January 16, 2006, v81, #44, pp30-36

Are Newspapers Doomed?
- Epstein, Joseph - Commentary, January 2006, v121, #1, pp46-51

The State of the News Media 2006 - An Annual Report on American Journalism - Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2006

Beyond Deep Throat.
Greenberg, David. Columbia Journalism Review, September/October 2005, v44, #3, pp51-54

Uncharted Terrain.
Smolkin, Rachel. American Journalism Review, October/November 2005, v27, #5, pp32-41

BLOGS: The New Information Revolution?
Dearstyne, Bruce W. Information Management Journal, Sep/Oct 2005, v39, #5, pp38-44

Selective Exposure to Online Foreign News During the Conflict With Iraq - Best, Samuel J., Brian Chmielewski and Brian S. Krueger, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Fall 2005, v10, #4, pp52-7

Journalism’s Backseat Drivers. Palser, Barb. American Journalism Review, Aug/Sep 2005,online edition

Confronting the Culture.
Robertson, Lori. American Journalism Review, Aug/Sep 2005,online edition

2005 State of First Amendment Survey
. First Amendment Center, July 11, 2005, 13p

The Crowded Theater
. McCollam, Douglas. Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 2005

The Fox News Factor - Morris, Jonathan S. -Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Summer 2005, v10, #3, pp56-79

Libraries and the USA Patriot Act - Doyle, Charles -
Congressional Research Report for Congress Updated August 19, 2005

Public More Critical of Press, But Goodwill Persists. Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Released June 26, 2005

A Source of Encouragement. Smolkin, Rachel. American Journalism Review, June/July 2005

A Bright Future for Newspapers. Farhi, Paul. American Journalism Review, June/July 2005, v27, #3, pp54-59

Blogs and the New Politics of Listening. Coleman, Stephen. The Political Quarterly. London: Apr-Jun 2005, v 76, #2, pp273-282

Ethnic Media in America: The Giant Hidden in Plain Sight. NCM Poll conducted by Bendixen & Associates, Jun 07, 2005

The Collapse of Big Media. Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2005, v29, #2, pp40-59





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