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There are some contradictory findings in the AP report on the news habits of young adults (PDF).
The report, A New Model for News: Studying the Deep Structure of Young-Adult News Consumption,is based on a global anthropological study of the news consumption patterns of young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 in Britain, India [...]

Hold the front page - citizen journalists can produce original news!
This came out of research by Zvi Reich of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel presented at the ICA annual conference in Montreal on Saturday. He looked at three mainstream news organisations in Israel and compared them to the Israeli citizen journalism site, [...]

I have been at the ICA annual conference in Montreal this week, talking about the research that Neil Thurman and myself have done into “participatory journalism” in Britain. What follows is a shortened version of the talk, but it is still on the long side for a blog post.
The term participatory journalism is itself rather [...]

Have you ever switched your instant messaging status to ‘away’, even if you are at your computer?
Then you are not alone. According to a paper presented at the ICA annual conference, the use of this white cyberlie is common among older teens.
The findings came in a paper by Mariek Vanden Abeele of the Katholieke [...]

Image by ToastyKen via FlickrResearching honeymoon plans for Thailand, I’ve been using a combination of legacy media in the form of a Lonely Planet guide, and new media, in this case TripAdvisor.
The two fulfill very different purposes and illustrate the difference between static and networked media.
The Lonely Planet guide is a good place to start. [...]

The 16 winners of the $5.5m Knight News Challenge have been announced, with the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, among the recipients.
The full list of winners illustrates how people are tapping into emerging trends in digital media to revitalise the news environment.
Several projects - Free Fone, The News is Coming, News on Cellphones - [...]

Several chapters from Charlie Beckett’s forthcoming book, SuperMedia: Saving Journalism So It Can Save The World, are available online.
The core of the book, published by Blackwell books on May 20, is the idea of Networked Journalism, which Beckett describes as:
Networked Journalism is a description and an aspiration. It reaffirms the value of the [...]

I’m speaking at a couple of conferences in Vancouver this week, discussing how public service broadcasters can sustaining citizenship and civil society in an internet age.
In particular, I will be looking at the rise and fall of the BBC’s Action Network and propose new ways of moving forward as the BBC prepares its digital [...]

The citizen journalism beat has a new kid on the block in the shape of VancouverIAM.
As you might have guessed from the name, it is a citmedia site about Vancouver, based in Vancouver. The site describes itself as:
The destination for people who want to know what’s going on in Vancouver. It gives you the [...]

In a few days’ time, on April 30, the BBC will close down its experiment in grassroots democracy, the Action Network.
The project started life five years ago as BBC iCan. According to the people involved at the time, iCan was a significant change for public service broadcasting because it was about encouraging people [...]