"While newspaper circulation continues to slide, readership is growing, especially with younger readers -- when taking online newspaper sites into consideration. According to the latest data from the Newspaper Association of America, newspaper Web sites contributed a 13.7% increase in total newspaper audience for adults 25-to-34."
-Robert Kuttner, columnist for the Boston Globe, predicts in the Columbia Journalism Review that newspapers will all be digital within 25 years. Despite gloomy forecasts and a late start, most newspapers have engaged into a viable transition to digital.
"This may not be the main issue in the wake of the most devastating tragedy ever on a US campus, but Follow the Media remarks that the coverage of the massacre gave a clear indication of the growth of citizen journalism – and its effect on traditional media coverage."
"A new Pew survey may offer some good news to a journalism industry eagerly seeking new and younger customers. People in the rapidly growing ranks of wireless Internet users are more likely to retrieve news online than those who access the web in other ways."
"Nickelodeon has already embraced the user-generated video fad on its Web sites. Now the network will bring that interactivity full circle with a weekday program that incorporates material produced by children."
"The Associated Press has partnered with a citizen journalism site, NowPublic.com, to integrate user-generated content into the wires."
"As wonderful as it might be that the hegemony of professionals over knowledge is lessening, there is a downside: our grasp of and respect for reliable information suffers. … The new politics of knowledge that I advocate would place experts at the head of the table, but — unlike the old order — gives the general public a place at the table as well."
Influential elites in China trust online news twice as much as newspapers but not as much as television
"Budde reaffirmed the importance of online news for the expansion of press freedom. Currently, online news portals like Yahoo, MSNBC, AOL, CNN or Google are all crushing the web traffic of US newspapers, led by the NY Times, leading to widespread diffusion of news...On the other hand, Budde also underlined that 90% of all available online news comes from three newswires, Associated Press, Agence F
As people become more focused on the news they read online, the editor's role within traditional media because even more important "because our mission is to expose you to things you wouldn't have clicked on." ~Charles Gibson
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"While newspaper circulation continues to slide, readership is growing, especially with younger readers -- when taking online newspaper sites into consideration. According to the latest data from the Newspaper Association of America, newspaper Web sites contributed a 13.7% increase in total newspaper audience for adults 25-to-34."
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