Are newspapers dying?

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Are newspapers dying?; Is the internet the future?
Topic Started: Feb 11 2009, 01:07 PM (1,074 Views)
Ron Higgins	Mar 11 2009, 12:22 AM Post #11
Posts: 8 Group: Members Member #37 Joined: Feb 17, 2009	gsymes Mar 4 2009, 09:13 PM Ryan Blethen, a columnist for the Seattle Times, has a good take on what's wrong with newspapers today. Quoting part of his column: "A lot of the recent discussion has been about micropayments and other ways to make readers pay for content. I am skeptical about readers paying to read a story. They have been trained to believe that content is free - a hard habit to change. "It has also been suggested that newspapers be transformed into nonprofits or live off the donations of the wealthy. I also have doubts about such a model. "What I have no doubt about is the good that will spring from the industry being hyperfocused on not only surviving but thriving. "Will any of them work? I have no clue. "What is clear is that there is no killer app for saving newspapers. Some ideas will take hold, others will not. What is for certain is that newspapers will emerge on the other side of this transitional period much changed."
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Ron Higgins	Mar 11 2009, 12:24 AM Post #12
Posts: 8 Group: Members Member #37 Joined: Feb 17, 2009	Interesting note on the Seattle Times. They seem to be on life support. It appears the days are numbered for a lot of newspapers. Just wonder if this would have happened even without the current recession.
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Ron Higgins	Mar 17 2009, 02:24 PM Post #13
Posts: 8 Group: Members Member #37 Joined: Feb 17, 2009	Seattle Post-Intelligencer: 1863-2009 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer published its final edition today. It is now the largest newspaper to convert to entirely online. Chalk another one up for the internet. For more, go to: http://www.seattlepi.com/
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kellyM	Apr 1 2009, 11:37 AM Post #14
Posts: 12 Group: Members Member #36 Joined: Feb 10, 2009	The Tampa Bay newspapers may not be dead yet, but they certainly don't look too healthy these days. The price has doubled since the last time I was down here, the size has shrunk and a lot of the paper boxes are left unfilled due to a lack of interests. I was talking with some friends this week who said their kids wonder why anyone would read a newspaper when all the news is on the internet.
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Alton Lagan	Apr 7 2009, 02:11 PM Post #15
Posts: 25 Group: Members Member #6 Joined: Nov 24, 2008	Recently my local paper announced it would be removing even more pages and sections from its print edition. They said that these would still be available in it's online edition, but no longer in print. This all seems to imply that the print version of the paper is becoming inferior to the online edition. If you want the full version of the paper that is. I was also amazed that they were getting rid of their Sunday, kids section. They are pretty much giving up indoctrinating youth to the value of the newspaper. It would seem no newspaper has a plan for the future, except for cutting back and slowly dieing.
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kellyM	Apr 16 2009, 03:34 PM Post #16
Posts: 12 Group: Members Member #36 Joined: Feb 10, 2009	The Domino's Pizza fiasco on YouTube shows dramatically how much influence the internet now has in reporting and disseminating news. The infamous video was placed on YouTube, was discovered by observers and reported to Domino's which, in turn, responded on YouTube. USA Today, among others reported the story, but it was a hot topic that was made hotter because of the internet. The mainstream media, i.e., newspapers, were being out-reported by internet social media sites. A few years ago, the president of Domino's would have issued a press release to newspapers and television stations. This time, he responded correctly to where the story became a story: YouTube.
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Alton Lagan	Apr 20 2009, 01:18 PM Post #17
Posts: 25 Group: Members Member #6 Joined: Nov 24, 2008	A funny cartoon in today's paper. It makes the point nicely.
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Steve Wilson	May 4 2009, 01:34 PM Post #18
Posts: 88 Group: Global Moderators Member #2 Joined: Nov 21, 2008	The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Amazon might have a solution to newspaper problems by allowing online versions that are more like the "paper" editions. Here's the story: http://www.philly.com/philly/business/technology/20090504_Amazon_to_debut_a_Kindle_for_reading_newspapers_.html



Steve Wilson	May 17 2009, 11:32 AM Post #19
Posts: 88 Group: Global Moderators Member #2 Joined: Nov 21, 2008	Tucson Citizen 1870 - 2009 The Tucson Citizen is the latest major newspaper in the U.S. to fold, barring a restraining order requested by the Arizona Attorney General. The newspaper's legend was bigger than it's circulation. While once registering in the 60,000 mark, it was reported down to 17,000 when it folded. It's final headline: "Our Epitaph." The newspaper, printing it's last edition May 16, was owned by the Gannett newspaper chain. It was the oldest continuously published newspaper in Arizona.



Steve Wilson	Jan 20 2010, 04:50 PM Post #20
Posts: 88 Group: Global Moderators Member #2 Joined: Nov 21, 2008	According to the latest PEW Center study, newspapers aren't quite dead yet. The study shows they are still the primary source of local news - if you combine printed newspapers with their web sites on the internet. According to Gene Policinski, VP and execuitive director of the First Amendment Center in Washington, "Newspapers are morphing into a combination of print and Web." In the big picture, he says, the transition isn't all that different than the changes through the years prompted by radio and television, "which changed content more than physical delivery – but which in their own ways were as earth-shaking."



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