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But if all newspapers die....
said by TKJunkMail  :But those newspaper groups who are trying out NEW models aren't doing any better. Those who are trying to stay alive by adopting new models are dying just as quickly. More and more people get their news from Google News or FoxNews or CNN and not using newspapers at all. Adapting isn't working. Just one problem with that: Where to Google, yahoo, the AP and many other online sources get their news from? Local newspapers that is who.
AP has reporters in some major cities, but not in every town. Yahoo has no reporters, neither does google.
If all the newspapers cease to exist, where will the news for the online sources come from? They will not have any sources, to the amount of news reported will diminish drastically.
I work from a newspaper group, and this has been a hot topic of discussion lately.
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| said by jtudor :Just one problem with that: Where to Google, yahoo, the AP and many other online sources get their news from? Local newspapers that is who. AP has reporters in some major cities, but not in every town. Yahoo has no reporters, neither does google. If all the newspapers cease to exist, where will the news for the online sources come from? They will not have any sources, to the amount of news reported will diminish drastically. I work from a newspaper group, and this has been a hot topic of discussion lately. Unfortunately, local coverage(except in major cities like you say) is going to suffer drastically. The major newswires(AP, Reuters, etc) are going to be the only sources of news and they won't cover all communities. I guess truly local news will have to depend on those free weekly ad newspapers they throw on your lawn and that have 20 or 30 stories a week.
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said by jtudor :Where to Google, yahoo, the AP and many other online sources get their news from? Local newspapers that is who. That is the crux of the problem. Everyone wants to be s content agitator but nobody one wants to do journalism.
I don't mind paying subscription fee to newspapers I have a relationship with and trust. On the other hand I refuse to use sites that require me to login, or even enter my email in order to read article.
A healthy society needs viable journalism at international, national and local level. I'm confident someone will eventually figure out an Internet central business model that works.
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| said by tschmidt :said by jtudor :Where to Google, yahoo, the AP and many other online sources get their news from? Local newspapers that is who. viable journalism /tom Keyword there. I think everyones become painfully aware of the opinions that our "journalists" seem to imbed in every story. The conversation should be on how do we eradicate sensationalism and opinion from reporting.
Oh...and actually sourcing might help instead of saying "there are critics"... |
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said by S_engineer :I think everyones become painfully aware of the opinions that our "journalists" seem to imbed in every story. Your post brought to mind the tension between Journalism and blogs. I think this cartoon cuts to the heart of the matter.
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boris_r
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going to see web 2.0. Every blogger knows:
If you see something - say samthing
Blogs not bad at all as sourch of news |
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