Huge Disparity Among News Sites
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Mainstream news sites cover "markedly different" topics than sites that allow users to participate in choosing, a new study says.
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By a wide margin, the news media concentrated on Democratic presidential contenders more than Republicans during the first three months of 2007, according to a study
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The "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" goes online. Doing research becomes easier but community editing means the information may be less credible.
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Text of report by Estonian newspaper Postimees website on 5 September  [Commentary by Rein Veidemann: "Media Circus"]  Elections make for fatty raw material to the free media. The supply of news and opinions is far greater than the demand.
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Sites popular with Republicans tend to be explicitly directed at conservatives, while Democratic sites contain relatively nonpolitical fare intended for a mostly black audience.
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A new study says the big social networking sites are splitting up along familiar lines.
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A look at the uneven course of WiMax, municipal Wi-Fi, and other wireless stories of the year.
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By PAUL GORES  Continued consolidation of the news media will make already- sketchy coverage of important issues worse, and American citizens should rally to prevent it.
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Readers sound off on the latest headlines.
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Internet bloggers have drawn blood  and American journalism may never be the same.
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A few notes on the NY Times outline... 1. I switched it back to the frequency sort, having tried it as an alphabetized list for about 18 hours. Now I want to see what happens with it flipped around so the most frequent keyword bins appear first. 2. Not sure, but I think it will empty out later this afternoon, as yesterday's stories expire, and before tomorrow's stories ship.  3. It seems that at least some people have bookmarked the site and are refreshing it. If so, I'm glad -- because that's the way these pages are most useful, they tell you something about what changed. Remember this is "news" not olds. 4. The outline view is something like TechMeme for the Times news flow. Not exactly because the keywords are assigned by people. Unseen news mavens. Where do they reside? Are they on the upper floors or in the basement of the NY Times skyscraper on 8th Ave, or somewhere inbetween? Maybe they work out of their homes. My mind wants to visualize these people, but I have nothing to cling to. It's not an algorithm that's determining where things sort out, it's people. Otherwise known as editors? Or are they librarians? 5. Do you bookmark the outline or the river? I'm a river guy for sure. I wonder about other people. 6. Francine Hardway twitted at me: "Times River is awesome on my iPhone! Was reading it while waiting for eye surgery and it was very distracting." Amen. That's the big secret. I wish there were a way to get everyone to look at the river on their cell phone. Eyes would open. 7. Thinking about integrating the two views, cross-relating them. Not sure exactly what I'll try first. That's why I wanted to let it settle in for a bit before moving in a other directions. 8. Of course, I know that if this ever becomes a "real" product, the user is going to control the view he or she wants to be the default. But for right now I'm experimenting. I want to see what people think. Enough people were asking for an alpha view that I wanted to see what would happen when I gave it to them, and if anyone would scream. Screaming isn't a bad thing, it's data.
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Headlines can tell you both more -- and less -- than they intend.
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Forbes.com claims to be the most popular source for business news, but a closer look raises questions about the siteÂs industry-leading success.
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Can small variations in the UK news search engine market produce large variations in the long-term behavior of the worldwide search engine market?
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The Boston Globe and The Worcester Telegram & Gazette have suffered from sluggish advertising and a migration of readers to the Internet.
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A US study compares the news agenda of the mainstream media with that of three user-driven news sources.
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Google News is getting a sense of   the past to balance out its relentless focus on the present.