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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).
Andrew VanNess

New Report Names Newspapers as the Fastest Shrinking Industry in America - 0 views

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    This is a short article involving the statistics of the newspaper industry. It is the fastest shrinking industry in America, even with the development of online sites and apps for tablets / smart phones.
Jenna Peterfeso

Careers in the Newspaper Industry - 0 views

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    Different jobs available in the newspaper industry. Advertising, business office,circulation, human resources, IT, market development, news, online, and production.
Savanna Germain

Managing decline in the newspaper industry is a familiar story - 2 views

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    "I'll probably read a print newspaper until I die. And that's a problem for the newspaper business; its most loyal customers are closer to death than to birth." This is another article about how the newspaper industry is currently doing. It provides statistics for the top newspapers around today.
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    Talks about the business aspect of the newspaper industry
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. 
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.
Andrew VanNess

India's Booming Newspaper Industry - 0 views

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    This video describes that while the rest of the world has a major decline in newspaper revenue, India's newspaper industry is actually growing. The youth of India prefer to purchase newspapers, instead of switching over to their digital versions.
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.
John Anderl

There's one good thing about the newspaper industry decline - more innovation is happen... - 1 views

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    Some perspectives on the future of the industry and how it is trying to adapt.
Jenna Peterfeso

Technology Industry Extends a Hand to Struggling Print Media - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • the tycoons who have led the digital revolution are giving traditional print outlets a hand.
  • Call it a sense of obligation. Or responsibility. Or maybe there is even a twinge of guilt. Helping print journalism adapt to a changed era is becoming a cause du jour among the technology elite.
  • Google, which has been criticized for profiting from news content created by others, began financing journalism fellowships for eight people this year.
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  • are supporting the press because they value it,
  • The founder of Craigslist, the free listing service that helped ruin newspapers’ classified advertising, helped finance a book on ethics for journalists.
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  • Many critics of the newspaper industry say its predicament is its own fault for allowing upstarts like Craigslist to outflank it with better methods for advertising automobiles, rental apartments and other merchandise.
  • Since then, the search giant has been cozying up to journalists in a growing variety of ways, financing reports on the impact of the Internet on journalism, sponsoring journalism conferences and donating to press advocacy groups.
  • But Esther Wojcicki, a teacher of high school journalism for several decades in Palo Alto, Calif., and the mother-in-law of Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, said the motivations of the tech people supporting the press, many of whom she has spoken to, were more sincere.
Savanna Germain

▶ The Death of the Newspaper Industry - YouTube - 0 views

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    YouTube video about death of the newspaper industry. Video talks about where people are getting there news, and what newspapers are going to online only.
Jenna Peterfeso

MSNBC: Finding a way to save the newspaper industry - 0 views

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    A short video where Chairman Ratner discusses the state of the newspaper industry. Where people get their news, why did Jeff Bezos buy The Post, daily newspaper circulation, local news, advertising
Melinda Snell

7 thoughts on a week that shook the newspaper industry - 0 views

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    A short article with 7 major recent things that shook the newspaper industry.
Melinda Snell

Charts: Why the newspaper industry collapsed - 0 views

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    Helpful charts and information regarding the present and future of the newspaper industry. Comparing newspapers to different things like netflix, google, apple, etc.
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

Dynamic Competition in the Newspaper Industry - 1 views

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    This website talks about the competition newspapers have been facing throughout history. It also discusses todays challenges the newspaper industry is facing.
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    This is a TRUSTED SOURCE (The U.S. Department of Justice) describing the challenges that the newspaper industry has faced throughout history, such as the invention of radio and television.
Jered Wilcox

why-bezos-will-jumpstart-a-new-golden-era-for-the-newspaper-industry/ - 0 views

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    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
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    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
Melinda Snell

3 Ways Social Media Can Save the Newspaper Industry - Social Media Week - 0 views

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    As the Golden Age of newspapers comes to an end with the sale of the Washington Post to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, social media is no longer a crutch but a force that can transform and potentially save the dying industry.
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. 
Melinda Snell

How Is the Newspaper Industry Trying to Save Itself? - 0 views

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    Really cool graph/ flow chart on the future of newspapers and how they are trying to save the industry. Has a link to embed it in a presentation. You do need to zoom in and scroll around to look and read this though.
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