Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Pew Study: Radio Change Continues

"The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago."

Thus begins the 2008 edition of the Project for Excellence in Journalism from the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. The exhaustive report details the state of the news media in the U.S., including radio, which the survey says is undergoing considerable change.

"... the radio business is undergoing no less of a revolution than any other part of media. The audience is fragmenting across new listening platforms. The revenue models are unclear, and which technology will emerge is uncertain."


And the project concludes its segment on radio by saying:

"What seems safest is the idea that listening to news and information is likely to endure, even thrive. But the shape of that is both changing rapidly and in other ways changing very little."


Read the entire segment on radio.

Read about online media.

1 comments:

Ken Mills said...

Thank you for providing the link to this interesting study.

After reading it, I am wondering why there was no mention of NPR or any public radio news and talk programming.