His father is the vice president for technology and programs at the Freedom Forum, an independent nonpartisan foundation devoted to media and media education, in Arlington, Va.
Yet in the same period consumer spending on media everything from DVDs to pay-TV grew even faster, by 6.5%, to $178 billion (see chart).The chunk of their media-consuming time that Americans devoted to media that is mostly financed by advertising, such as broadcast TV, consumer magazines and daily newspay-TV grewank by seven percentage points between 1998 and 2003, to 56%.
No changes have been made in the reporting, editing and other resources devoted to media coverage.
The Hoot, a Web site devoted to media criticism, has pointed out one such instance.
"You have devoted fans, media, radio shows, the Internet watching their every move.
The visible result was Plastic, the Slashdot-style community weblog devoted to media and politics, which remains online, because the staff, in particular Joey Anuff, work without pay.
The results, seen on computer terminals in a nonprofit space devoted to media, add up to a strong New York solo debut (Cotter).
A significant percentage of time is also devoted to media training, with top journalists invited to lecture or participate in end-of-course war games.
Interpublic, based in New York, said on Wednesday that it would form an umbrella unit devoted to media called Mediabrands and named Nick Brien to lead it as chief executive.
