The Better Government Association and National Freedom of Information Coalition give 38 out of 50 states an 'F' grade in overall responsiveness to FOI requests.

PEJ and the Shorenstein Center teamed up on a study aimed at learning early lessons about how the media is treating the 2008 presidential campaign.

The Poynter Institute released the findings of its 2007 EyeTrack study at the ASNE conference earlier this year. The study aims to provide new insights into how readers consume the news.

CJR's Curtis Brainard highlights a recent Pew Research Center report studying 20 years of American news consumption preferences.

Harvard's Shorenstein Center recently released a report suggesting that the Internet is redistributing news audience in a way that benefits large national papers but hurts daily papers without nation-wide readership.

Hank Price, Sr. Fellow at the Media Management Center, discusses the implications for local TV news stations of recent research findings on how news media build emotional connections with audiences.

A recent NNN study finds that 81% of newspaper website users also read the print edition of their newspaper.

A Harvard University Shorenstein Center report on how young people use news finds that news consumption is not a routine part of their days and that they're more likely to use TV and the internet to find news than older Americans.

The Center for Public Integrity released a license for the non-commercial use of its Media Tracker, a free online database containing records of government sources, corporate disclosure documents and original research on media ownership and lobbying activities.

A recent Harris Interactive poll suggestions that TV network news remains the top source of news and information in most countries, including the U.S., but that residents of several countries expect the Internet to assume that role within five years.