Vocus, a provider of on-demand software for public relations management, has released the State of the Media Report 2011. The report covers the four traditional media segments including newspapers, magazines, television and radio, and finds that the media industry has revived in the last 12 months and it continues to experiment with new digital and mobile distribution models. Read more…

Crowdsourcing, crisis reporting, open-source platforms and other free tools, news cyborgs and more: Poynter.org's Matt Thompson talks about why women leaders are on the cutting edge of new reporting and what to look for in 2011. Great summary of the last year and of new trends.

Sree Sreenivasan, dean of student affairs at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, writes a great article about the use of Twiiter among journalists and offers insight about what makes a good profile and best practices, including:

• Upgrade your bio;
• Upgrade your lists;
• Think through your tweets; and
• Study others' Twitter feeds
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Thanks to Mark Luckie for this post

Nonprofit organizations still rely heavily on the Internet for images and video, but are not completely versed in the restrictions that apply to borrowing creations that are posted by others.

Mark Luckie's latest blog post lists the top 10 common misapprehensions regarding copyright use, including:

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From an ongoing discussion on a women journalists' listserv, Marie T. offered "a few observations from a middle-aged journalist about using social media as a professional tool": Read more…

Americans are spending more time with the news than over much of the past decade. Digital platforms are playing a larger role in news consumption, and they seem to be more than making up for modest declines in the audience for traditional platforms. As a result, the average time Americans spend with the news on a given day is as high as it was in the mid-1990s, when audiences for traditional news sources were much larger. Read more…

According to new research by Pew, Americans are spending more time following news and increasingly integrating new technologies into their news consumption habits. More than a third (36%) of Americans say they got news from both digital and traditional sources yesterday, just shy of the number who relied solely on traditional sources. Read more…

The AP Stylebook, known as “The Journalist’s Bible,” is not only found in three different formats, but is also taking suggestions for its new and social media section. Read more…

The 2010 AP Stylebook is available as a printed spiral-bound book, a fully searchable online version and as a mobile application for your smart phone.

Updated every year, the 2010 edition includes the addition of Great Recession, tea party and The Conference Board. The new Stylebook features a social media section with terms like app, smart phone, Blu-ray and metadata. Read more…