No Future for the Newspaper

Newspapers were once the source for people to get there news.  People would have newspapers delivered or they would walk down the street and buy one.  Newspapers gave people a chance to read and look in deeply in to the news by reading a article about it.  People who followed the news or sports could guarantee one thing every morning that their newspaper would be there and that their newspaper would give them a look at the news that they missed.  The newspapers would present both sides of the news story.  Today people can access the news at anytime of the day from any part of the world.  If people want to find out what's happen in the middle east they can log on to their computer and find out what is the news in the middle east    In a article by Silverblatthttps://uwm.courses.wisconsin.edu/d2l/orgTools/ouHome/ouHome.asp?ou=167227

he says that 7% of people get there news from cellphones or pod-casts. News is so available everywhere that people can access the latest news from their phone or ipod  People don't even need to go on their computer to access the news they can get from anywhere.  This type of change gives the newspaper no future.  The newspaper can't compete against phones that allow you to access news where ever you are Young people are not the only ones that have turned their backs on news papers in that same article Silverblatt says 31% of adults go online to get there news  If adults our going online to get news what chance does that give the newspapers If the older generation no longer uses newspapers then why would my genearation want to use them The shift has been made from people going out every morning to get there newspapers to logging on to their computer and checking out the news

With technology becoming more and more advanced that is something newspapers cant compete against. A study done at the University of South Carolina their journalism program looked at how technology has and will changed news papershttp://www.eric.ed.gov:80/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/13/55/92.pd They felt that newspapers would start to become an online delivery service.  They thought you would subscribe to a newspaper and it would be delivered via online I am not sure if this is any different then what you can do today.

Only time will tell what will happen to the newspaper. I am not sure if one day ill have to tell my grandchildren about what newspapers were.  Or pull out an old newspaper to show them.  At the current way our technology is growing newspapers do not seem to have much of a chance but somehow they can rally and become popular once again....  .  

No Future for the Newspaper

Tough Times for Newspapers

There is no doubt that those who write for newspapers are extremely talented. They clearly possess everything that is necessary in order to be an outstanding writer. The one thing that is unfortunate about being a writer for a newspaper is that there are many limits to how they can write. For one, they have to fit their story into a certain space that is then blocked with a bunch of other stories. Also, newspaper writers generally just state facts to their audience and it's left at that. There isn't much room left for audience interaction.

On the internet, writers have much more freedom. Instead of having to fit their story into an amount of space, they usually have much more freedom as to how long their story can be. Also, instead of simply telling their audience a story, there is usually an area for feeback from the readers. With the readers being able to interact with the writer and the story, a much more bonded community is then created. With a greater interaction between readers and the media/writers, stories can also be told more thoroughly because of all of the extra insight. Those are only a couple reasons as to why the internet is more beneficial not only to the audience, but also the writers.

In the article our class read by Silverblatt, he said that 7% of Americans get their news from new technologies, 31% of adults, and people in their forties are even more likely to go online for news than young adults. He continued to state that that convenience of the internet as well as the immediacy are huge factors as to why people prefer internet over the newspaper. When I looked into more of what Silverblatt thought regarding newspapers and the internet, I found out that he is a huge book reader. He would much rather read a book than sit on the internet. On the other hand, he has spread his love of book reading to the internet. In an article I read about him called The Consummate Reader, it says that his book Bookworm online archive includes almost 1,000 interviews. Also, people around the world downloaded 275,270 free podcasts from the site. That is another example of how the audience is much more able to get involved with media. Also, if he had simply placed his stories, interviews, and thoughts in newspapers, he wouldn't have got nearly as much recognition as well.

Newspapers, in a way, limit the knowledge that could be spread throughout the world. Sure, there are ways in which they give out as much knowledge with their facts. On the other hand, not everybody can get their hands on a newspaper. Subscriptions to newspapers can be expensive. It can also be expensive if someone wants to buy only the Sunday paper. Silverblatt's online archive is completely free, along with most news sources online.

The demise of newspapers will be troubling for all of its talented writers. However, there is a whole other online community available now to welcome those writers. The benefits for the writers as well as the audience certainly outweight the benefits that came from newspapers. The writers will now be able to express themselves more in their articles. Also, they will have more freedom to write their stories in ways that they may be more comfortable with. Then, society will have the chance to interact with those writers who have had both the experience of writing with limits for a newspaper as well as writing on the more reader-friendly internet.

Abby Lindsay

Demise of Newspapers

     My first memory of reading a newspaper was when I was about six and was the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl season of 1996-1997. Every week I would always get the Wisconsin State Journal sports article and read all about the most recent game that week and then cut out the full-page picture of the player they chose that week. These covered my entire wall for a while. Since this time, newspapers have changed drastically. Like the Packers today, newspapers just aren’t the same anymore. Now instead of getting the paper thrown on your porch every morning, you are able to turn on your computer and within seconds open the newspaper online.
Newspapers have been in our country for centuries. A stereotypical scene of an American family having breakfast is everyone around the kitchen table and the father reading the daily newspaper. Is this being replaced with a laptop sitting on the table? Well there’s a good chance, according to an article in the Washington Post, U.S. newspapers have hit their lowest circulation in seven decades. This should come to no surprise considering everything else in our economy besides lottery tickets has been declining in the past year or two.
Now that most newspaper companies publish an online version of there paper, it has more or less killed the hard copy of the newspaper. This has come to no surprise to me that the newspaper is changing just like every other form of communication has. The newspapers just aren’t able to compete these days with Internet. People using the online versions are able to pick and chose what articles they want. They can look through the archives to look for old articles instead of looking in the old stack of newspapers and finding it. The Internet also provides colored pictures, links to related articles, or videos pertaining to the story. Everything about it is just a lot more convenient and easy to use.
Though there are many pros of using the Internet to read the news, it is a disadvantage for some advertisements. Hard copies of newspapers are filled with all assortments of ads. People who read the news online filter out certain content and never will read certain ads or stories.
I guess in today’s age, it’s safe to say that online papers are killing the traditional newspapers that have been in our country for centuries. But as today’s world changes so does the newspaper industry.

Extra Extra! There's A Lot We Can Do About It...

With the demise of the newspaper industry on the horizon (so many claim), does that mean less and less job opportunities for journalists?

With the economy as it is in our country, and jobs being scarce at the moment, it is not hard to imagine that those who have been let go from the newspaper business are wanting to stay within the relms truth seeking and news searching. There are just new ways to go about it.

Blogging has become one of the fastest growing journalistic opportunies for both aspiring and experienced writers. Scott Elliot, a writer for the Dayton Daily News makes this crucial statement in his blog: ""If you're a journalist and you are not comfortable writing for an online audience, you had better get there fast." http://http//reportr.net/2008/09/01/how-blogging-creates-new-opportunities-for-journalists/

In that same blog, Elliot quotes John Robinson, Editor of Greensboro News-Record. Robinson states that when hiring new candidates for the company, he asks if they have a blog. Reading their blog allows him to see the clarity and passion for writing and how strong their unedited writing reads.

We should not be looking at the internet and online journalism as the enemy, but instead, a way to have readers become interested in the truth. Interested in global news instead of People magazine.

Alex S Jones, said in an interview with New York Times, that he doesn't think newspapers will fade away completely. They are safe as "commerical enterprise". Jones states that it is more important for the news to be concerened with "truth seeking" and somtimes the newspapers don't want to write about things people gravitate towards. Journalism is made for the public interest. Online articles and blogs allows the reader to do his/her own research and do some truth seeking on their own. http://http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/16/opinion/1247465221227/bloggingheads-web-sites-vs-newspapers.html?scp=2&sq=online%20journalism&st=cse

Isn't it time we started taking an interest in the news and putting putting our values to the test? Online journalism can help bring out the writer in each of us.

Newspaper 0 Journalism 1

What happens to journalism, we ask, when newspapers continue on their inevitable decline? The question assumes that journalism itself will be diminished.

I am coming to a different conclusion:

Journalism will improve once newspapers die or decline to a minor medium so says Stovall. Stovall believes that the newspaper is the medium or middle of the pack when it comes to news. He says" the medium they work so hard to produce -- the paper -- is holding back journalism from doing the best job that it can for society. The sooner the paper is gone, the better.

I feel that the newspaper has a more sentimental type of feel to it. Sure the news can come from other venues, as well it should, with the way technology has taken off in the last 2 decades. Having just one news outlet in this day and age would be like subjecting ourselves to 3 television channels or worse black and white tv.

A sense of nostalgia comes over me when I think of the newspaper and where it has been and where it is going. Many of us men have taken the newspaper to the washroom with us to read in our personal sanctuary. I personally don t do this as much because I would rather go in and come back out when I'm done.

I can say that no one wants to take a laptop to the John to read the news. The Wall Street Journal just went to color recently, talk about stuck in a time zone. Regardless its nostalgic and reading the paper keeps real people in a constant routine because reading the newspaper is something to do everyday.

I don't read the newspaper much, never have, doesn't mean I won't. However, somebody is out there across this great country waiting on the newspaper faithfully, some pre-teen still has paper route, a puppy's cage needs to be lined, etc... This is bigger than the news itself folks, THIS IS ABOUT THE PAPER!

Shawn Nealy a.k.a "Green Eyes"

THE SLOW DECLINE OF NEWSPAPERS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The Fast Decline of Newspapers

 

As a young child every morning I would wake up walk down stairs and grab the newspaper.  I would immediately go to the sports page and read what happen in the sports world the day before.  As a young child the newspaper is what taught me how to read.  As I have gotten older I no longer read the newspapers like I once did.  The newspapers that I use to read are now all online.  Instead of buying a newspaper I can go online and read my daily sports news.  I am saddened by the huge decline in newspapers I understand that everything is online now but I do feel they can still serve some sort of a purpose.  I am not sure though with the current trends if they will be able to survive at all.

            In a recent NY Times article by Richard Perez it describes the decline of newspapers.  It stated that newspaper sales have fallen 10% in one year.  In the article is states how most major newspaper companies our having a huge decline in sales.  The article can be found herehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/business/media/27audit.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Decline%20of%20Newspapers&st=cse.  At the end of the article it stated that newspapers that publish articles off of a central idea tend to be doing better.   Many people don’t mind that newspapers our becoming distinct.  I feel that newspapers helped shape our country.

            In a blog by Matt Harber he describes how all advertisements on the Internet has increased by billions while advertisements in newspapers have declined more and more each year.  Here is the blog by Matt Harberhttp://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/pressed/2009/10/26/newspaper-circulations-continue-to-decline/. With this current trend of advertisers more likely to spend money on a online article then a newspaper article newspapers truly don’t stand a chance.  With all the money going towards the Internet newspapers are becoming forgotten. I feel that newspapers should be brought back.  A lot of people would say that I am dumb for thinking that newspapers should be brought back.  Here are my reasons that they should be brought back.  When people needed their news they would open up the newspaper.  Today there are many online article present news but many present the news with their opinion intertwined in it.  Newspapers just present the news they don’t include their opinions in the article.  They can teach young people or anyone to read not everyone can afford a computer with the Internet.  But everyone can afford a 50-cent newspaper. 

            As the times go on I am pretty sure that newspapers probably will no longer be around.  This idea is very sad to me unless a major change happens in the newspaper industry they will become instinct.  I hope a movement will be made to bring back newspapers maybe I can started I am not sure though if it would be that successful.