The State of the News Media 2011 is the eighth edition of our annual report on the health and status of American journalism.

This year’s study contains a series of special reports: a survey on how people use mobile technology to get local news; a report comparing the U.S. newspaper industry with the rest of the world’s and two reports on community news websites. We’ve also redesigned the industry chapters. Each contains a summary essay, which tells the story of that sector, and a data section, which presents a full range of statistics, graphically rendered with minimal text. The report is the work of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism a nonpolitical, nonpartisan research institute funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.” Source: Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism