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The Future of Newspapers

The Future of Newspapers

Will newspapers soon become medium of the past?Back in 2005, Rupert Murdoch (former head of News Corp) was already concerned about the fate of the newspaper industry.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/apr/14/citynews.newmedia (Links to an external site.)”I believe too many of us editors and reporters are out of touch with our readers,” Rupert Murdoch said in a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. “No wonder that people, and in particular the young, are ditching their newspapers. Today’s teens, twenty- and thirty-somethings don’t want to rely on a god-like figure from above to tell them what’s important, and they certainly don’t want news presented as gospel.”The Readership Institute was a newspaper industry group established in 1999 to “find ways to draw people back.” Skim this article titled “Reinventing the Newspaper for Young Adults”:
http://www.mediamanagementcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2015/05/startrib_overview.pdf (Links to an external site.) Do you think that in the electronic age of TV and the Internet it is possible to draw young people back to reading newspapers? What will newspapers have to do to draw in young audiences? Or do you think newspapers will fade out as sense-intensive multimedia takes over? What has been the newspaper circulation & readership decline in the last 20 years in the United States? Cite TWO current sources (2012 to present) (other than Wikipedia) in your response. Also, at the end of your response leave an APA style Reference List of your sources. Review the APA Style guidelines under Course Home.Keep in mind that many major city newspapers, some over 100 years old, have shut down, like the Cincinnati Post, Kentucky Post, and Rocky Mountain News. See what newspapers have died at:
http://NewspaperDeathWatch.com (Links to an external site.)Also, watch this interesting video titled EPIC:
http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/ols-master1.html (Links to an external site.)

 
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