{"id":219020,"date":"2010-01-11T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745923954793947308.post-5922812102341798637"},"modified":"2010-01-11T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T15:02:39","slug":"study-finds-that-papers-lead-in-providing-new-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/219020","title":{"rendered":"Study Finds That Papers Lead in Providing New Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;\">By Richard Perez-Pena<br \/>nytimes.com<br \/><\/span><br \/><strong>There are more places to go for local news but less news to find there,<\/strong> and the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers, according to a study of the Baltimore area that is scheduled to be released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at six major story lines that developed over one week last July, 83 percent of the reports in local news media \u201cwere essentially repetitive, conveying no new information,\u201d said the study, by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an arm of the Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n<p>Despite diminished resources of established news organizations, \u201cof the stories that did contain new information, nearly all, 95 percent, came from old media \u2014 most of them newspapers,\u201d it said. \u201cThese stories then tended to set the narrative agenda for most other media outlets.\u201d <span class=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<p>The study found 53 different sources of local news \u2014 general-interest newspapers like The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post and their Web sites, several smaller papers in the region, publications devoted to a niche like local business, local television and radio stations, and new online news sites and blogs. Even the reporting done by traditional media was driven mostly by government statements rather than journalists\u2019 own digging, the study found. . .<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/11\/business\/media\/11baltimore.html?ref=business.html\" >READ FULL STORY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/2745923954793947308-5922812102341798637?l=news.newspaperproject.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Perez-Penanytimes.comThere are more places to go for local news but less news to find there, and the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers, according to a study of the Baltimore area that is scheduled to be released on Monday. Looking at six major story lines that developed over one week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}