American Journalism Review was a USA magazine covering Media Business.
The American Journalism Review was shut down in 2015. It was founded in 1977 as the Washington Journalism Review. The magazine examined how the media cover specific stories and broader coverage trends. AJR analyzed ethical dilemmas in the field and monitored the impact of technology on how journalism is practiced and on the final product.
The AJR was published six times a year by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. It had been owned since the late 1980s by a foundation of the university called University System of Maryland Foundation. In the fall of 2013, the AJR ended print publishing and became an online-only service.
This magazine was owned by University System of Maryland Foundation.
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The Newspaper Business: Less Money from Ads, More from You
-- April 14, 2013: The newspaper business ain't dead yet, but the money is coming less and less from advertisers and more from readers. That's according to Rem Rieder, editor of American Journalism Review.
Rieder says newspapers made a huge mistake giving away their content online for many years, and he describes the money-making potential of digital advertising as "profoundly disappointing." But he sees...
Newspapers Ask Readers to Pay to Play
-- As cash-strapped newspapers struggle to adapt to the Internet age, more and more are asking readers to pay for digital content. On February 23, the American Journalism Review reported on how that strategy appears to be going:
"For editors and reporters this means a new obligation -- writing and posting what people are willing to pay to read. "Editors for the first time will have...
Controversy Surrounds Patch, AOL’s Hyperlocal News Venture
-- The American Journalism Review reported on troubles surrounding Patch, the new local news service from AOL, on December 6, 2010:
"When is a company hiring 500 journalists in a year a bad thing for journalism? According to some, it's when that company is AOL.
Through 2010, AOL's Patch neighborhood news initiative has grown like a weed — and with that growth has come controversy over the way Patch...
Millenial Generation Represents 'Huge Opportunity for News Organizations'
-- The American Journalism Review reported in the June/July 2010 issue:
"Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are getting old. Seriously, by the end of next year, they'll both be 30. That's when, according to the now-threadbare and mostly abandoned hopes of old-media sages, they'll swap their bedazzled iPhones or Sidekicks or whatever for the comforting heft of the Los Angeles Times.
As the first wave of Millennials...
The Glory Days of Writing for a Newspaper
-- In the December/January 2010 issue of the American Journalism Review, Carl Sessions Stepp wrote a fond remembrance of the glory days of writing for a newspaper, titled "A Eulogy for Old-School Newsrooms:"
"Newsrooms in their heyday were bundles of contradiction: palaces of power and temples of tomfoolery, swaggering with certitude yet endearingly insecure, cynical but...
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