The New Yorker says that "since 1990, a quarter of all American newspaper jobs have disappeared." So, not only are newspapers being physically replaced by the Internet for our primary news source, but lost newspaper jobs are adding to our national economic struggle.
Newspaper revenues have dropped 43% from 2005 to 2009 according to Newspaper Death Watch. Readers are now accustomed to being an active part of their news and receiving it instantly in this age of "now." But, what's next for this new generation of journalism? Here are some options to consider:
- Newspapers could switch to being completely online and hopefully make enough from advertisers to stay in business.
- Newspapers could start their own websites and introduce blogs for readers to contribute.
- Newspapers could charge for their content online as some have already begun to do.
- Newspapers could limit the number of days they publish papers to save on printing costs.
With more and more people turning to the Internet for their news, newspapers seem to be just a dying tradition.
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ReplyDeleteAs Megan stated in her blog, “Readers are now accustomed to being an active part of their news and receiving it instantly in this age of ‘now.’” In my opinion, the new generation of news readers are used to being able to hop on the internet and find out a current event that happened less than an hour ago; sitting around or going out to find a newspaper with these current events in them is too time consuming and just isn’t as current as the internet anymore.
ReplyDeleteSilverblatt states, “Blogs have emerged as an influential source of news and information.” Blogs have become one of the main news sources people use as medium of news now a days. Almost anyone can create a blog, but one of the things that I find interesting about them is that professional journalists even use them to get across news information that they aren’t able to in their career. In my opinion, this makes blogs more truthful than the mainstream media.
Megan also says in her blog, according to Newspaper Deathwatch, revenues have dropped 43% in just four years. To me, that is a lot of money and says a lot about what is to come of newspapers. According to cfpnyc.com, “With the advent of electronics media and the World Wide Web, people are less interested in reading the print version of newspapers.” This is obviously true and an up incoming trend because the internet is becoming so accessible to everyone. I agree with Megan that with more people turning to the internet for their news, that newspapers are becoming a “dying tradition.”