I took the excerpts from Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism “State of the News Media 2010” report and inserted them into wordle to get a word cloud of the text. It’s interesting that “pay” comes up as one of the dominant words. I am guessing it will be a theme for this year.

Here are a few takes on the report for you to digest:

• “Pew: Online News Users Don’t Want To Pay—Or Look At Ads” – PaidContent
• Most Online News Readers Use 5 Sites or Fewer, Study Says - The New York Times
• State of the Media, By the Numbers – Columbia Journalism Review
• The State of Newspapers? Think of Sand Falling in an Hourglass, Pew Report Says – Editor and Publisher

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Today the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism released a report by Leonard Downie, Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, and Michael Schudson, a journalism school professor, that aim to propose new steps to take on the challenge of supporting public affairs reporting. Below is a compilation of links to stories of reactions on the report. With quotes from each for you to get an idea of what some of the media folks out there are saying. Feel free to post others in the comments that you agreed with or found helpful. I am going to keep updating this as much as I can with new reactions. ….