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News Lab is an advanced reporting class in which students produce news stories and packages for local neighborhood and ethnic newspapers and online sites.

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fragmentation most likely to occur when news outlets carry unique content; readers not getting same thing everywhere they go

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research: mere existence of so many outlets suggest presence of diffusion of attention; also, long tail phenomenon can be observed

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Theoretically, knowledge of public affairs society-wide should go down. However, this has not been seen (Pew Center study)

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Tewksbury, con'd: Polarization: audience divides into "communities of interest"; group think - echo chambers create internal consistency

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research: audience segments differentiated by characteristics of news they consume; relative homogeneity of group members

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Pew study: 20% read political blogs; 14% read news on cell ph; 37% get news by email from news orgs; 20% get news via customizable web page

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What's the future? The real story is in cohort -- high school students now are doing things very differently than 10 years ago

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to ponder: "loose tie networks" -- we have more exposure to diverse voices among our personal contacts than the news sites we visit

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We have an opening at University of Washington Seattle for a lecturer in digital journalism: check out position 2 here: bit.ly/UiCxYO