From the Christian Science Monitor, a highly respected newspaper:
"In 2009, the Monitor will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website; the 100 year-old news organization will also offer subscribers weekly print and daily e-mail editions."
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Look out Hollywood: the typical “morning breakfast” scene of the man in the house reading the newspaper may be outdated within a couple of years---
This is certainly the beginning, of what I think will be a domino effect. However, I think that this might hurt the newspaper industry for one particular reason. Specifically, I believe this reason to be that a huge demographic of the newspaper audience is older people, who are reading print because they simply do not know how to or cannot obtain their news from the internet.
Not only do many senior citizens not know how to use the internet, many of them may not have the means to support an internet subscription, each month, and to update and maintain and/or purchase computers. Chances are, these are the very people who are frequently subscribing to newspapers.
Furthermore, while on the topic, we Americas will be getting gypped. We will be double paying for our news. The internet provider will charge us a fee, and then we will have to pay for the newspaper subscription, as well. There should be some sort of 10% discount or something for those who purchase online, instead of in print form
Also, from a communications point of view, what about advertisers?! How will advertisers, a major source of newspaper revenue, fit into this picture? No one will willingly click on a newspaper category that says “Ads;” or if he or she does, it probably will not be very frequent.
I think that this very well may be the beginning to an end, at least for the newspaper, as we know it. The whole newspaper culture is changing.
This is such a horrible thing to hear. The newspaper/journalism has been such a dramtic, important part of American history. There's something so tradional and familiar about reading the newspaper in print and I'm afraid that "going online" will become a trend with all newspapers.
It seems as if the internet is killing journalism and everyhting it holds dear. It's scary to think that newspapers may not be around for much longer.
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