JCA Fall 2013 Mass Comm-Newspaper

A little more information about the newspaper extinction timeline.

Bunch of stats and graphs of the revenue decline.

Graph of online vs print revenue.

"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.

Talks about the business aspect of the newspaper industry

1 view of the future of news

If news papers and newsrooms die off... here is one of the major issue in the present and future of news

Apple and News Corp are reportedly set to launch The Daily, the first iPad-only news publication. Can Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs usher journalism into a new digital age?

A smaller, less frequently published version packed with analysis and investigative reporting and aimed at well-educated news junkies that may well be a smart survival strategy for the beleaguered old print product.

The iPhone and Android have put a virtual newsroom-with writing, photo, video, Web research and communications capabilities-into our pockets. We gasp at the inexorable decline of the business models of once-mighty traditional media corporations, hollowing out newsrooms and throwing thousands of people out of once-secure jobs.

As in the past year the company IST METZ from Nürtingen will be displaying on the stand of technotrans AG. The experts for UV technology will be showing their solutions for newspaper printing and will advise publishing houses which equipment is the ideal supplementation for their machine configuration.

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

A really neat intereactive graph the asks the question: what IS the future of newspapers. It goes on to different opinons about the future possiblities.

It wasn't so much the incredible year-over-year gains in total circulation. In fact, as has been discussed and reported in other blogs and articles, it is really meaningless to make year-over-year comparisons due to new categories of digital and branded edition circulation.

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.

Talks about the future of newspapers, good pictures and graphs. Has a very useful graph with what most people now days buy the newspaper for.

Facing declining ad revenue and readership, large newspaper companies are cutting costs, eliminating or selling assets and overhauling management. The outcomes of a few of these efforts are becoming clearer this week.

WHEN Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post early last month for $250m, the question everyone wanted the answer to was, why would a new media guy invest in old media?

Arianna Huffington talks about how new technology will play a part in the papers future, but journalism will stay strong since journalists have new ways of gathering more information than in the past

As it encapsulates one era that has passed, it also has the potential to expand the era we are in. This combining of the best of traditional media with the potential of digital media represents an opportunity to move from the future of newspapers to the future of journalism - in whatever form it's delivered. After all, despite dire news about the state of the newspaper industry, we are in something of a golden age of journalism for news consumers.