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My blogging frequency has declined somewhat in the summer months, as you might have noticed. This decrease in frequency mirrors the ‘news drought’ that seems to occur in most news media during the summer. Many newspaper lower their page count during the summer, for example. Why? Are there really less things of importance, less newsworthy events, occurring during the summer months? The simple answer is yes, actually. Journalists are generally highly dependent on what is sometimes called bureaucratic sources, i.e. sources placed in some kind of central bureaucratic organisation (often a government organisation): civil servants, bureaucrats, spokespersons, academic experts etc. The dependence on this kind of source can be easily verified by looking at the articles in any newspaper and try to figure out where the information in the article comes from: most often it must be from some kind of official, bureaucratic source. This is an obvious and everyday observation, and no major fault of journalism: using bureaucratic sources is a good, effective way to get factual information. But many bureaucratic sources go on holiday in the summertime. Government organisations often have reduced office hours, Parliament is in recess etc. Many of the traditional news sources ‘dry up’, and this summer news drought demonstrates journalists’ dependence on official, bureaucratic sources. In their stead, the summer usually sees more of the ‘man in the street’, who is interviewed about everything from preferred ice cream flavours to their secret holiday spot. However, there are still interesting and newsworthy things happening in the summertime: In Croatia, a new big citizen journalism project is being launched (see here) – interesting, considering that the Croatian government’s attitudes to citizen journalists (indeed, journalists of any kind) have not been that permissive (see here). China is cracking down further on internet news sites. And, in contrast to the positive reports on the future of the newspapers published by WAN (World Association of Newspapers) reported previously on this blog, the Editor & Publisher has recently released a report that claims that newspapers are losing more ad revenue to the Internet than other media. Hope we’ll see big features on these events in the news over here soon!