Accuracy in Media

A new poll by Gallup shows that Americans who express confidence in newspapers as a U.S. institution has dwindled to an all-time low of just 20%. This marks “the 10th consecutive year that more Americans show little or no, rather than high, confidence” in newspapers. At its peak, 37% expressed high confidence. Now, those expressing […]

From the Washington Examiner: Gallup found that just 20 percent have confidence in newspapers, a 10-point drop in 10 years. TV news saw an identical 10-point drop, from 31 percent to 21 percent.

Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron said what many in the newspaper industry have known for years but have refused to admit publicly—newspapers will not last, no matter how hard the industry tries to save them. Baron made his remarks while delivering the the 2015 Hays Press-Enterprise lecture at the University of California, Riverside on […]

  Newspapers, which have been in a general decline for the last several years, received some more bad news this week with the release of a new survey from Edison Research that showed that they have become the least essential form of media in our lives. The survey asked respondents to answer the question: “Among […]

Donald Graham shook up the newspaper world last week when he agreed to sell The Washington Post to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. But based on the results of a new survey by the Pew Center for the People and the Press, he was probably right—if not a little late to do so. The survey revealed […]

A new Pew study on news consumption shows that digital media, particularly social media, continues to grow at a rapid rate, with newspapers and radio suffering the most from the move to online news. As more powerful smartphones become available, along with the rapid increase in the use of tablets and other mobile devices, the […]

The recession and continued economic slump have taken a bite out of many industries in the last few years, but one of the hardest hit sectors has been newspaper publishing, which has been shrinking at a rate faster than most as advertising and circulation have been in a downward spiral for years, with no end […]

A new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reveals that newspapers are struggling to offset print revenue losses with digital revenue. The study was conducted using data supplied by 38 newspapers across the country representing a mix of circulation levels in an effort to accurately reflect the overall makeup of […]

While it has been widely reported that ad revenues, which are the lifeblood of every newspaper, have been falling for years, a new chart from the Newspaper Association of America shows just how much those revenues have fallen, portending an even bleaker future for the industry. Since 1950, adjusted for inflation, ad revenues have gone […]

A new report to be issued in January by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future predicts that most newspapers will be dead in five years. The Center’s director, Jeffrey I. Cole, had this to say about the future of newspapers: “Circulation of print newspapers continues to plummet, and we believe that the only […]