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

Another video about newspapers surviving the digital revolution.

Walt Mossberg from the wall street journal talks about how he doesn't believe that journalism is dying out.

how and why the newspaper started to grow, thanks to the new technologies of the industrial revolution

History of newer technologies influencing the way newspapers are being brought to your doorstep

This is an article about the influence on the newspaper industry by the telegraph. Speed was a major revolution in this industry from the invention of the telegraph.

If the digital revolution has done nothing else, it has exposed the extent to which American newspapers have relied on their quasi-monopolistic control over local advertising markets to fund news operations. CW Anderson, Emily Bell, and Clay Shirky, in their valuable report last year, called it a "subsidy," and that's a provocative way to put it.

This is a detailed article describing the history of news. Key parts include the development and importance of the steam press during the industrial revolution.