State of the News Media 2006

The State of the News Media 2006 provides a comprehensive, sweeping look at American journalism in the year 2006. Previous reports (2004, 2005) are available at this site as well. Written by the Project for Excellence in Journalism with the aid of many collaborators, the report examines major trends in print (newspapers, magazines), broadcast (network TV, local TV, cable, and radio) and online journalism through various perspectives such as content analysis, audience characteristics, economics, ownership, investment, and public attitudes. For a quick overview check out Major Trends or the Intro. Full of original and aggregated data, for any student of journalism this report is a bookmark-must!