New for Journalism and Mass Communications

New Yorker.
Available online.
The December 16 issue contains this article by James Surowiecki on the state of the newspaper business, concluding with "for a while now, readers have had the best of both worlds: all the benefits of the old, high-profit regime -- intensive reporting, experienced editors, and so on -- and the low costs of the new one. But that situation can’t last. Soon enough, we’re going to start getting what we pay for, and we may find out just how little that is."
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Gale.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
W&L now has online access to the most recent edition (2008) of this annual update to West's Encyclopedia of American Law. The Yearbook updates earlier coverage and introduces emerging issues.
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Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Available online.
"One of the more persistent myths about the end-of-year holidays is that suicides rise during this period. According to a recently completed analysis of news reporting during last year’s holiday period, there was renewed repetition of this myth in newspaper reporting."
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation / American Anthropological Association.
Available online.
Released at the AAA's annual meeting, "results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value."
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Kaiser Family Foundation / Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Available online.
"Study of how the U.S. news media covered health issues over an 18-month period from January 2007 through June 2008," finding that "news about health and health care made up less than four percent (3.6%) of all news content from January 2007 through June 2008."
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Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois.
Available online.
Study finds the ephemeral nature of documents presented online in the White House Web site. The authors "are the first to show a pattern of changes in documents over time, but note that others have, on previous occasions, pointed to suspicious changes to archived documents on the White House Web site."

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