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Savanna Germain

Print Newspapers: Will They Survive? | American Free Press - 0 views

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    Article about Paul Gillin, founder of Newspaper Death Watch. The article describes his explanations as to why the newspaper industry is dying.
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

Goodbye to Newspapers? - 0 views

  • Its advertising and circulation are being drained away by the Internet, and its owners seem stricken by a failure of the entrepreneurial imagination needed to prosper in the electronic age.
  • Surveys showing that more and more young people get their news from television and computers
  • Rupert Murdoch
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  • but it was the disclosure in May that the Bancroft family, which controls The Wall Street Journal, might be ready to sell him their paper for five billion dollars that really struck at journalism’s soul.
  • . Still, it is on the ownership and management side that the gravest problems exis
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    A long article about the present state of newspapers. Includes information about selling the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch. Includes names of many journalists that may be important. 
Jenna Peterfeso

Newspaper Article Format - 0 views

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    The parts of a newspaper article, their purpose and definition. Headline, byline, lead paragraph, explanation, and additional information. 
Melinda Snell

Do newspapers have a future? - 0 views

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    A short article written by TIME magazine saying how it almost seems hopeless that the newspapers would have a future with the internet.
Melinda Snell

The future of newspapers - 0 views

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    An article about the negatives of reading news online and on mobile devices, including social network commentary, poor digital content experiences, broken mobile links, etc. 
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    An article written by forbes about the future of newspapers. Talks about the content and communication of the newspaper industry and also the newspapers as a product.
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
Jenna Peterfeso

Newspaper Business Model: Unsustainable in Any Form | Adweek - 0 views

  • Most media gurus agree that the paper-and-ink newspaper is on the decline and will eventually become a relic.
  • If a market for news content still exists, it’s believed, newspaper organizations will just have to adapt their methods of delivery.
  • The rationale: people have to get their news from somewhere, right?
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  • The newspaper business model is simply not flexible enough to undergo such a dramatic transformation—especially given the increasingly competitive online news industry.
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    An article by Jeff Mascot who believes there is no possible way for the newspaper industry to survive. 
Andrew VanNess

People Without Papers - 0 views

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    This article is about the 1962-1963 newspaper blackout, which lasted 114 days. This blackout was caused by strikes from 9 major newspaper companies. This article shows the impact that this strike caused to the future of the newspaper industry.
Savanna Germain

The first Black newspaper, Freedom's Journal - 0 views

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    This article gives a history rundown of the first African American newspaper. It goes through who was involved and what the purpose of the paper was for. This paper gave a voice for the African American people.
Jenna Peterfeso

The Sorry State of the Newspaper Industry - 0 views

  • The U.S. newspaper industry was already facing numerous challenges before the economy took a nosedive, but the latest data from the Newspaper Association of America shows that the current economic climate has only exacerbated the already dire state of the American newspaper industry.
  • Specifically, total newspaper advertising revenue fell 16.6% in 2008.
  • Classifieds advertising, which is under a lot of pressure from online ventures like Craigslist, fell almost 30%, and real estate classifieds fell 38%.
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    A really good, short article with lots of current statistics. 
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.
Jenna Peterfeso

How Student Newspapers Can Survive (and Thrive) in the 21st Century | Mediashift | PBS - 0 views

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    An article on the difficulties faced by student newspapers and how they can survive. 
Andrew VanNess

Articles about "Layoffs/buyouts/staff cuts" - 0 views

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    While not a particular article, this webpage on Poynter provides multiple accounts for which newspaper companies are laying off workers in the past couple weeks / months. Could be useful in providing statistics for how the newspaper industry is declining.
Andrew VanNess

Writing from the Top Down: Pros and Cons of the Inverted Pyramid - 0 views

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    This is an article about why the inverted pyramid style of organization is controversial in journalism today. This is a helpful article for understanding how this style of writing developed over the years, and how it is now considered outdated.
Andrew VanNess

Newspaper Advertising Vs. Radio Advertising - 0 views

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    Another article describing the competition between the radio and the newspaper industries. This article shows how radio took on advertisement methods from the newspaper to further its industry.
Savanna Germain

Number of Americans Who Read Print Newspapers Continues Decline - 0 views

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    Article about the declining audience of readers from the newspaper. Gives some percentages from 2012
Savanna Germain

Local news crisis: why newspapers remain so important to the public - 0 views

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    This article talks about why the newspaper industry is important. It also talks about the reasons why the newspaper is valuable.
Melinda Snell

Newspapers reshaping themselves for the future - 0 views

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    An opinion based article written by the Jackson Sun newspaper company. Talks about their opinion on how newspapers are changing and dying off.
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.
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