Study Links Swearing on TV to Teen Aggression

"Swearing on television during prime time will most likely get a show fined by the Federal Communication Commission, and new research suggests it might be for good reasons."

Entertainment, Media Spending Hits $433B in 2010

"Advances in digital entertainment and advertising helped push U.S. entertainment and media spending in 2010 to $433 billion, up 3% from 2009, says a PricewaterhouseCoopers report out today. That's the first increase in three years."

Time-Shifting on TV More Than Doubles in Past Year

"Time-shifted TV viewing has more than doubled over the past year and over 40 percent of Americans now make plans to record their favorite shows and watch them later, according to a survey released on Tuesday."

Survey: Americans Like Digital Media, if it is Cheap

"Only about 25% of people here say that they'd pay to access frequently used online content -- which contrasts with 43% globally -- according to the survey of 5,600 people in 22 countries."

TV and Video Games Lead to Attention Problems

"Numerous studies have documented the negative effects of television exposure at a young age; TV viewing has been linked to behavioral and attention problems later in life. Now researchers confirm the same effect of video games on attention problems in both younger children and teens."

Nearly 800,000 U.S. TV households 'cut the cord,' report says

"Make no mistake: The big cable, satellite, and telco carriers are still sitting pretty with more than 100 million TV subscribers. Nevertheless, a new report claims that more and more viewers are "cutting the cord" in favor of watching their favorite shows via over-the-air antennas (remember those?), Netflix, or the Web."

Online Journalists Make Pulitzer History

"Today, a cartoonist for SFGate.com, the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle, and an investigative journalist at ProPublica won Pulitzer Prizes for their work. The reason we’ve dubbed these wins “history-making” is because this is the first time any online-only publication has won the prestigious award for editorial content."

What Would Henry Luce Make of the Digital Age?

"What made Luce a revolutionary figure in American life was not his politics or his religion or his missionary zeal. It was his success in creating a new era of communications that had an enormous impact on the culture of the 20th century. . ."

TV and Internet Use Together Growing

"Americans are spending more time watching television and surfing the Internet simultaneously, and nearly 60 percent of TV viewers use the Web at the same time at least once a month, according to a Nielsen report released on Monday."

Teens, Kids Consume 7.5 Hours of Media a Day

"Researchers say that 8- to 18-year-olds spend 7 hours and 38 minutes a day watching TV, playing video games, or amusing themselves on a computer, which has risen by one hour and 17 minutes since 2004; that's a total of 53 hours a week."

Report: New York Times to Charge Online Readers

"The New York Times is reportedly getting ready to charge readers for access to the venerable newspaper's online content. The newspaper is expected to announce in coming weeks that it will institute a metered pay plan in which readers would have access to a limited number of free articles before being invited to subscribe, according to a report in New York magazine that cited sources close to the newsroom."

Report: 2010 Seen Good for TV, Bad for E-Readers

"According to the Deloitte 2010 TMT Predictions, the TV and its fixed schedule will remain a central part of the entertainment experience despite the growing demand from viewers who want to watch individual programs when they want them. The forecast goes against many expectations as analysts have long expected the habit of downloading content from the Internet onto a computer -- when and where the viewer wants it -- to slowly spread to the way viewers also watch TV."

Study Finds That Papers Lead in Providing New Information

"There are more places to go for local news but less news to find there, and the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers, according to a study of the Baltimore area that is scheduled to be released on Monday."

TV Viewers Migrate to Web

"More and more Americans are watching television exclusively online and ditching their cable or satellite service. One-quarter of families have tuned in online, and 25% of those viewers have watched a full-length show on a computer—a 67% jump just since 2007."

New York Times to Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs

"The New York Times plans to cut 100 newsroom jobs by the end of the year through buyouts and might resort to layoffs as it reels from the advertising revenue drop that is imperiling U.S. newspapers."

AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials

"Now, more than 1,500 historic TV commercials from the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in the Duke University Special Collections Library are available on iTunes U in a collection called "AdViews," viewable at library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adviews. The first 1,500 digitized television commercials, mostly from the 1950s and 1960s, are part of the Hartman Center's D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency archive. It includes 12,000 commercials total, some produced as recently as the late 1980s. Duke Libraries plans to make the remaining commercials available by the end of 2009."

Future of Online News may be 'Hyperlocal'

"With many newspapers ailing, there's been a steady drumbeat of layoffs at major news organizations -- nearly 25,000 jobs have been lost at papers since 2008, according to Paper Cuts, a blog that tracks the layoffs. But a relatively new crop of 'hyperlocal' news sites is growing into the void left by failing news organizations. Most of the hyperlocal sites focus exclusively on a community in a tight geographic area. Some are trying to find new ways to fund the news, since nearly all online information is free. They're also experimenting with unconventional ways of gathering the news: Several nonprofit news sites publish reports from volunteer reporters who are active in the neighborhoods they cover."

As Cities Go From Two Papers to One, Talk of Zero

"'In 2009 and 2010, all the two-newspaper markets will become one-newspaper markets, and you will start to see one-newspaper markets become no-newspaper markets,' said Mike Simonton, a senior director at Fitch Ratings, who analyzes the industry." New York Times article