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A new summary of a recent Pew Research Center study on news consumption was posted today by Pew Research.  The study describes readership losses for print newspaper editions and growth for online editions.
see the complete report here
Other Pew Resources:

Project for Excellence in Journalism
State of the News Media 2008 report

The History of Ohio University by Thomas Hoover is now available in full-text online format through this ALICE record.  Thanks go to Alden Library staff members for completing the digitization work!
See print copies of this book

The library at NPR has a new blog called …as a matter of fact. According to the blog’s home page:
As A Matter of Fact is a blog by and for the audio-loving, fact-finding, truth-seeking, pop-culture-fiending, news-addicted librarians of the world. Of course, you don’t need to be a librarian to read it. But we’re [...]

A recent article from Editor & Publisher
announced that the Dayton Daily News will donate its archive to Wright State University Libraries, including photos, news clippings and subject files from both the Daily News and Journal Herald (folded in 1986). Wright State Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives already holds the papers of Daily News [...]

The Athens News has an article this week about students in Frederick Lewis’ MDIA 419 class who are making a feature film based on Russel Banks‘ book of short stories, Trailerpark.
The articles focuses on the students shooting of fire scence, which involved a an actual abandoned trailer being set ablaze at the Hocking College [...]