Pew study points to work of Franklin Center journos

Last week, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study examining 46 nonprofit news websites, which have become more prevalent as traditional media outlets have disappeared. The study, which analyzed 1,203 stories from the month of September 2010, found that more than half of the news sites were ideologically based.

Among the sites analyzed were the national investigative site Watchdog.org and the statehouse reporting news site StatehouseNewsOnline.com. Both of these sites are run by the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a nonprofit group working with news organizations in more than 40 states.