What Is the State of the News Media, Pew Research Center?

In case you missed it, last week Pew Research Center released its annual, invaluable State of the News Media report.

The big conclusions may sound familiar: while new digital outlets continue to spring up pretty much every day with the help of venture capital injections, they’re more concerned with earning readers and influence than making money, the vast majority of which is still driven by traditional advertisements in print and on TV.

That said, every major publisher has now embraced branded content (however reluctantly).

Other already-heard-it findings: the socially empowered, share-worthy upstarts (BuzzFeed, Upworthy, blah blah) has worn off on the old guard.