From Editor and Publisher: Young people prefer online news over news displayed in the traditional context, according to a Carnegie Corporation of New York study called “Abandoning the News.” Merrill Brown, founding editor-in-chief of MSNBC.com, wrote the study, which surveyed the 18-year-old to 34-year-old age group. Less than 20% of the participants reported reading the newspaper at all while almost half of the respondents turned to online news daily. Respondents also trust what they read on the Web. Respondents 25 years of age to 34 years of age said news from the Internet was just as trustworthy as what you would find in the newspaper. Brown attributed the results of the study to the failure of traditional news outlets to connect with the new generation of technology-savvy youth the way the Internet does. “There’s not enough risk-taking in the newspaper industry,” he said.
Yahoo News: Online news leader
From The Wall Street Journal: Yahoo News, which relies on both “human oversight [and] automation,” now ranks as the leader of online news. The news aggregator (see related OJR story) attracts most of its visitors from other Yahoo sites while redirecting very few of them to rival news sites. Its pacts with multiple news sources, including French news service Agence France Presse, give Yahoo News access to their news items as well as an edge over its competitors. In contrast, AFP sued Google News in March for offering its content without its consent. Yahoo News has been redesigned as a one-stop source to many sources, which will allow “consumers to flip quickly among headlines from different news organizations without waiting for Web pages to reload, and to place text feeds from Web blogs and other sites alongside news headlines.”
Online video news from the Cayman Islands
From: Cayman Net News: Cayman Net News will broadcast daily video reports from the Cayman Islands starting April 4 with CiNTV Headline Report, its first online news program. “CiNTV Headline Report is a living, moving version of the online newspaper,” said Judy Singh, video producer for Cayman Net News. It is the latest online venture for Cayman Net Media Group, which already boasts two news sites, Cayman Net News and Caribbean Net News, and online radio, Caribbean Net Radio. The launch of CiNTV Headline Report coincides with the fifth anniversary of the Cayman news site.
