News filter
Navigating the new media
Sep 22, 2009
by Mark Silk, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Stephen Prothero, Melissa Rogers, Jeff Sharlet, J. Brent Walker and Martin E. Marty
The number of news sources has expanded tremendously in recent years, but much of this expansion has been in opinion journalism and news analysis, not original reporting. While traditional news sources are struggling to survive, new media sources—many of them openly partisan—proliferate.
We asked some expert observers of the religion scene how they are navigating the new media. What do they read, watch and listen to? How have their own reading, listening or viewing habits changed over the past decade?
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