Current Awareness Reports

From CommWiki

Communication & Mass Media organizations publish reports each year describing the current state of affairs in the field. Most of these reports are freely accessible on their websites, or a print version may be available for a small fee. Many of the following reports may also be found via InfoTree or the ALICE catalog:

State of the News Media

Connect to State of the News Media.

This report, produced by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, aims "to gather in one place as much data as possible about all the major sectors of journalism, to identify trends, mark key indicators, note areas for further inquiry and provide a resource for citizens, journalists and researchers."

Sections Include:

• A Year in the News
• Journalist Survey
• Newspapers
• Online
• Network TV
• Cable TV
• Local TV
• Magazines
• Radio
• Ethnic Media
• Special Reports

Many sections include a collection of interactive charts and graphs.

Attacks on the Press

The mission of the Committee to Project Journalists (CPJ) is to protect the right of journalists to freely report on the news without fear of reprisal. Each year the CPJ publishes many reports, including the annual Attacks on the Press, a survey of rights violations directed at journalists around the world.

electronic version on the WWW
print copies of the reports at the library