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This is a really good video I found with Peter Rojas discussing his views on the survival of the newspaper. He talks about some of the problems they are facing. His big concern is are they going to change quickly enough to keep up with the rest of the digital revolution.

Another video about newspapers surviving the digital revolution.

This article provides a very straightforward approach to what the newspaper industry must do to survive. In a nutshell, newspaper companies must transition their businesses over to be accessed digitally, otherwise they will die out.

Another video from the Big Think about whether or not the newspaper will survive the digital revolution. Jason Kottke gives his opinions on the matter.

After nearly 280 years in print, the world's oldest continuously published newspaper is stopping the presses in favor of a digital presence. Lloyd's List, which was founded in 1734 as a notice posted to a London coffee shop's wall, announced Wednesday it will cease its print edition in December. The newspaper is widely regarded as the leading source of news and analysis for the global shipping market. The newspaper's management cited declining interest in the print edition as the impetus behind the move. A recent survey of Lloyd's List readers found that less than 2 percent relied solely on the print edition for access to the newspaper's content.

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.

brief summary about digitial printing: short print runs, digital printing as a distribution concept and hybrid printing.

Google has shut down its Google News Archives digitization program, which aimed to make the world's newspaper archives accessible and searchable online.

This is a cool websites that talks about how technology will impact our newspapers. It describes what sort of things this new digital newspaper will be able to do. For example it will tell you what's going on where you live, but also automatically know where you are.

Here is a image of what people are predicting future newspapers will look like.

How college newspapers are changing the way people read the newspaper:ditching the old fashioned newspaper for an online version to gain a bigger audience

Article from the New York Times talking about how newspapers are quickly running out of time to adapt or make changes for the future.

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.

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. 

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.

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

The ups and the downs of the present day newspaper industry are shown within this article. Statistics are provided to show the decrease in size, and the transition into the digital era is also explained.

Newspapers: Stabilizing, but Still Threatened By Rick Edmonds of the Poynter Institute and Emily Guskin, Amy Mitchell and Mark Jurkowitz of the Pew Research Center Updated July 18, 2013 If the newspaper industry had theme music in 2013, it might use "Been down so long it looks like up to me," the much-recycled line from a 1920s blues song.

An aritcle writen by the pew research center, on how newspapers are changing and what they are doing to try to save the newspapers in the future. Includes many graphs and statistics also.

Very good content for the future part of our presentation. This man is all over the news and google, trying to save the future of newspapers. I think he's defenitly someone we should read about and mention in our presentation

Bezos has already re-defined Amazon by creating the online shopping market we know today. The company transformed its back-end infrastructure into the nation's leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). The Kindle launched e-books into the mainstream, and today, for all intents and purposes, Amazon is the e-book marketplace. Bezos is also biting into the media world with instant video, Amazon Studios, even digital games, not to mention ownership in the Business Insider. Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/06/why-bezos-will-jumpstart-a-new-golden-era-for-the-newspaper-industry/#PzFSYVWgts6sdX84.99

Statistics on the present state of newspapers. A chart from the Newspaper Association of America showing advertising expenditures.  "Journalism is not dead, it is just evolving."

Statistics on the present state of newspapers. A chart from the Newspaper Association of America showing advertising expenditures.  "Journalism is not dead, it is just evolving."