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Savanna Germain

Newspapers' last and best hope: the internet - 0 views

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    This website talks about how the newspaper industry needs to start reinventing itself in order to stay in competition with other industries. It suggests that embracing the internet will be more beneficial rather than fighting it. It also talks about past industries that have contributed to the decline in newspapers (TV Broadcasting).
Jenna Peterfeso

How the Internet Can Save Journalism | Bruce Ackerman - 0 views

  • Enter the Internet news voucher. Under our proposal, each news article on the web will end by asking readers whether it contributed to their political understanding. If so, they can click the yes-box, and send the message to a National Endowment for Journalism -- which would obtain an annual appropriation from the government. This money would be distributed to news organizations on the basis of a strict mathematical formula: the more clicks, the bigger the check from the Endowment.
  • a news organization must have a group of editors and fact-checkers committed to journalistic integrity.
  • Although the Internet may have destroyed the newspaper's old business model, we can use it to create a new decentralized system that may generate an even more vibrant marketplace of ideas for the twenty-first century.
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    Discusses the idea of a National Endowment for Journalism.
Savanna Germain

Accepting the Challenge: Using the Web to Help Newspapers Survive - 0 views

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    This site talks about how the newspaper will need to use the internet ant the web to survive. They have to figure out a way to keep readers interested. They also talk about people entering the newspaper industry who grew up with the internet. By hiring these people the industry will have a greater chance of survival.
Jered Wilcox

How Internet Affects the Newspaper Business - 0 views

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    With the invention of the telegraph, radio and television, print newspapers have faced challenges over the decades, yet publishers have always adapted and persevered. However, the Internet is proving to be a far more dangerous foe to the traditional newspaper model. Faced with such an adversary, small and large newspapers alike may have no choice but to abandon their traditional methods for a more innovative approach.
Savanna Germain

How newspapers can survive - CNN.com - 0 views

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    This article from CNN provides input about what can be done to improve the newspaper industry and bring in more business. The idea involves changing the quality of the "app" versions of newspapers to fit more to the consumer and other similarities to website versions as well.
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    good article explaining how and why the n.i is the fasted industry that is declining
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    John Barth from CNN gives his point of view on whether the newspaper will survive. Talks some about the internet and the effects on the industry.
Savanna Germain

Failing Newspaper Cartoon Image - 0 views

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    This is a funny little cartoon image that shows why the internet is failing. I thought it would be a good image to put in our presentation.
Savanna Germain

Why Newspapers are Failing - 0 views

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    This website talks about how newspapers are failing. They argue that because of free news on the internet and their low/ limited budget they will not survive in the future.
Savanna Germain

5 Reasons Print Newspapers Will Survive - 0 views

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    This site gives five reasons why the newspaper will survive. For example they argue that smaller newspapers especially will survive because small town, local news won't be printed into bigger papers or on the internet. They also list off what the newspaper industry is doing in order to survive.
Andrew VanNess

Radio Vs. Newspaper: Different Boats-Different Fates - 1 views

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    This is an article describing the competition between the newspaper and radio industries in current times. Basically, the author believes that newspaper doesn't stand a chance with other industries with the rise of the internet and the digital era.
Andrew VanNess

Digitalization of Books and Newspapers - 0 views

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    Some more current information about the struggles that the newspaper and the book industry face with the rise of the digital era and the internet.
Jenna Peterfeso

A Bright Future for Newspapers  | American Journalism Review - 0 views

  • If present readership trends continue indefinitely, says the University of North Carolina professor, the last daily newspaper reader will check out in 2044. October 2044, to be exact.
  • Compared with the rest of the media industry, newspapers are doing no worse, and in some respects quite a bit better, than the competition, including the Internet.
  • The major fear in the newspaper industry is that today's young people won't grow into the next generation of readers.
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  • Newsgathering power.
  • Monopoly status.
  • So how do newspapers fit into this dynamic cosmos? Nicely, I'd say. Consider just a few unique competitive advantages that newspapers (still) enjoy:
  • Localism.
  • The best customers.
  • Lots of attention.
  • Brand-name recognition.
  • Historic profitability.
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    An optimistic article about the future of newspapers, including a list of competitive advantages that the newspaper industry still has. 
Jenna Peterfeso

Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon - Washington Post - 1 views

  • Bezos, whose entrepreneurship has made him one of the world’s richest men, will pay $250 million in cash for The Post and affiliated publications to The Washington Post Co., which owns the newspaper and other businesses.
  • The rise of the Internet and the epochal change from print to digital technology have created a massive wave of competition for traditional news companies, scattering readers and advertisers across a radically altered news and information landscape and triggering mergers, bankruptcies and consolidation among the owners of print and broadcasting properties.
  • will take the company private, meaning he will not have to report quarterly earnings to shareholders or be subjected to investors’ demands for ever-rising profits,
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  • Indeed, Bezos’s history of patient investment and long-term strategic thinking made him an attractive buyer, Weymouth said.
  • As such, he will be able to experiment with the paper without the pressure of showing an immediate return on any investment
  • “I don’t want to imply that I have a worked-out plan,” he said. “This will be uncharted terrain, and it will require experimentation.”
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    Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has agreed to buy The Washington post for $250 million cash. Includes the Grahm family's feelings toward the deal and what made Bezo's an attractive buyer.
Melinda Snell

Top 10 reasons the newspaper is dying - 0 views

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    This website is a glimpse into the future of newspapers. The website suggest 10 factors that are aiding the decline of the newspaper such as; internet, cost, aging audience, etc.
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    Article listing 1 through 10 the main reasons the newspaper industry is dying. Includes brief descriptions of each
Jered Wilcox

Our Future Is Digital': Don Graham Reflects on Washington Post's Turning Point - 0 views

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    The purchase of The Washington Post by Internet mogul Jeff Bezos for $250 million will end nearly eight decades of that newspaper's ownership by the Graham family
Jered Wilcox

FUTURE OF WASHINGTON POST - 0 views

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    Can Jeff Bezos invent a new future for newspapers? By buying The Washington Post in his personal capacity, the Amazon founder and internet pioneer may just be looking to save an American institution
Andrew VanNess

Media Comparison - 0 views

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    This webpage gives a brief description of a few forms of media, along with the pros and cons to each. In addition to the descriptions, it also provides a graph showing how well each form of media is doing compared to the others.
Andrew VanNess

Steal* This Article - 0 views

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    This academic journal talks about how changes are being implemented in the way that paywalls work. Micropayment services are changing the way that newspaper websites and blogger websites will work. In a sense, the more views that a page gets viewed, the blogger / artist / journalist can get a "tip" from the the viewers.
Melinda Snell

Media Experts Ponder Future of Newspapers After Washington Post Sale - 1 views

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    Video on the future of newspapers and how they are being saves. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos made news this week following reports that the Internet pioneer had purchased one of the nations top newspapers.
Jenna Peterfeso

Making news pay: Reinventing the newspaper - 0 views

  • This model worked well for a long time. But it has come unstuck in the internet era as readers have shifted their attention to other media, quickly followed by advertisers.
  • It may be a business, but it also plays an important part in a democracy: holding those in power to account, giving voters the information they need to make choices and making markets more efficient.
  • Having long made content available free online, news providers are starting to restrict access to some or all of it to paying subscribers.
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  • A decade ago the idea of a paywall appeared to have been widely discredited.
  • Another option is the “metered paywall”, pioneered by the Financial Times, which lets visitors to its site read ten stories a month before asking them to pay.
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    The future of newspapers and issuing a paywall. Also talks about a metered paywall. New business models. 
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