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Conservatives remain scarce in the news media landscape. Only 6 percent of the national press corps describe themselves as "conservative" in a population that includes reporters, editors and producers from major television and radio networks, daily newspapers, news wires and online sources. Those who consider themselves "very conservative" amount to just 2 percent, according to a wide-ranging survey of 585 journalists and news executives released yesterday by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. In contrast, 36 percent of the overall population generally consider themselves conservative. There are more conservatives in broadcast than print — 10 percent and 2 percent, respectively....

In a world where à la carte can describe a way to choose online content, it was only a matter of time until an on-demand news syndication service for audio and video, in addition to text and pictures, landed on the menu. This week, Mochila, a service that calls itself a media marketplace, will be introduced in Chicago at Nexpo, an annual newspaper industry conference. Mochila will be a place where newspapers, magazines, Web sites and broadcasters sell content to other publications. Initially, Mochila will only allow the exchange of text and photographs, but it plans to add audio and...