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PEJ analysis of journalism in Baltimore suggests that most stories have very little original reporting – 80% of stories were rehashes of existing reporting, often from the (rapidly shrinking) local newspaper
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Slate discovers a large audience for long, in-depth features… and that writing these features is a joy of the journalists who get to produce them
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Recent work from Northwestern U professor Pablo Boczkowski makes the case that increasing the pace of the newsroom is tightly correlated with a pattern of homogenization, where competing newsrooms copy each other and cover the same stories. His analysis relies mostly on a close comparison of Clarin and La Nacion in Argentina, but he's got findings that suggest a similar pattern during US 2008 elections. Fascinating, dispiriting stuff